Why is the GitHub trending page weirdly excluding DeepSeek projects?

Tianyi from DeepSeek AI's Harness team publicly asked GitHub why the trending page excludes the deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness repository despite rapid community engagement, noting a colleague's recollection that DeepSeek-R1 also missed trending. The query, posted on Hacker News, highlights potential false positives in GitHub's trending algorithm.

Hi, this is Tianyi from DeepSeek AI's Harness team. I'm looking to get in touch with someone from GitHub, as I found it weird that https://github.com/trending page doesn't seem to include https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness at all. The project was rapidly being starred, forked, and plugin'ed by the GitHub community in the past few days. I wonder whether we were false positive'ed by some mechanism or something. Some colleague told me that they vaguely remembered that other popular DeepSeek repositories such as https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 also didn't show up in the trending page when it was in fact trending in the community. I didn't fact check that though. Is there some way this can be resolved? Happy to help in some way that I can. Feel free to reach out by email via my first name at deepseek dot com . Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323677 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323677 Points: 3 Comments: 0