Repo Roast – a real-time feed of the funniest comments on GitHub
Hey HN - I'm Mason, and I'm excited to share a fun side project I've been working on recently: Repo Roast. For me, Github often feels like a serious (and sometimes soulless) place. I built this website to showcase the human, silly side of developers. Repo Roast is built on top of LLM-powered GitHub analytics tooling we’re developing internally at Merit Systems [0]. One of the historically cited weak points for LLMs has been their sense of humor. I found that with the right prompt, at scale, they mostly can _identify_ humor pretty well. We experimented with a couple of different models to…
Repo Roast – a real-time feed of the funniest comments on GitHub launched on April 9, 2025 with 14 votes, #1,902 of 7,818 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Repo Roast aggregates funny comments from GitHub repositories and displays them in a real-time feed. Built using AI to identify humorous posts at scale, the tool uses a combination of language models to filter and score comments for comedic value. It's designed for developers who want to see the lighthearted and human side of GitHub, which is often perceived as a serious platform. The project showcases how AI can effectively identify humor when given the right prompts and approach.
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From the sources
A real-time feed of the funniest comments on GitHub.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN - I'm Mason, and I'm excited to share a fun side project I've been working on recently: Repo Roast. For me, Github often feels like a serious (and sometimes soulless) place. I built this website to showcase the human, silly side of developers. Repo Roast is built on top of LLM-powered GitHub analytics tooling…
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