A Replication Study on Measuring the Growth of Open Source · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2008.07753/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTA Replication Study on Measuring the Growth of Open Source — mentioned by alisonatworkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946937urn:hackerpapers:mention:2008.07753:44946937Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:28:42 GMT<p>There is an ASCII chart in https://phrack.org/issues/72/18_md#article which references https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.07753 [PDF], a 2020 article showing that open source peaked in 2013. In some qualitative sense that feels intuitively correct, but I am skeptical that in the modern world filled with a zillion NPM dependencies and the cloud YAML explosion and now vibe-coded everything that we are actually producing less lines of open source than we did in 2013. Is anyone aware of newer studies that investigate this?</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2008.07753/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SE