Show HN: "Is This Tech Dead?" A snarky autopsy engine for your dead frameworks
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·April 21, 2025photonthug
Pretty bad. Stack-overflow and hackernews metrics don't work, python is considered 100% dead and 70% dead respectively. By trying to search in the page with control-f.. I voted for death? Reddit and youtube are not remotely reasonable proxies for project health. Naturally no one likes wordpress, but it runs like 40% of sites on the internet, and it's also 40% "dead", which seems wrong. Why is there a newsletter? My advice is to throw away all the social media garbage, including hackernews sentiments, focus on github metrics for commits, issues, and forks.. see if you can add anything new there
neuroelectron
I'm sorry you had to learn about python this way.
jobehi
It will definitely evolve. Feedbacks like this are important to improve the algorithm. You can see it now as a prototype. The project is 2 days old
atrettel
According to this, Fortran may still be alive. Having written a lot of Fortran over the last decade, I knew Fortran is alive and well, but I would have though that this site would pick up the "Fortran is dead" meme from other places. Good on OP to recognize Fortran maybe isn't dead.
JSR_FDED
Love the attitude, disagree with the content. Vue.js is “critical”? Rust is “Endangered”? Then I realized it’s not about the content - it’s a reflection on our obsession with chasing the new thing and declaring the recent thing dead.
ceautery
You're calling frameworks with two day old commits critical and terminal? As Mark Twain would say, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
jobehi
As my tool is.
sergix
Great tongue-in-cheek project. Ignore those who don't get the joke, and keep building fun stuff like this.
GolDDranks
Tried Knockout.js, Mithril.js, Marko.js, Rocket (Rust), none to be found.
Also, the site seems to have abysmal performance.
DetroitThrow
Deno, Rust, famously dead software projects.
jobehi
Almost. Like all techs are
DetroitThrow
I'd say you'd have to be brain dead to say either are "almost dead".
Sorry, you offered a poorly made peanut gallery to a poorly made peanut gallery, I couldn't resist.
jobehi
It’s a Frankenstein made with duct tape and dead techs. The algo will evolve. It just needs more data
mifydev
HN has declared supabase dead, how sad
dawatchusay
I put in the web framework that our company’s ecosystem is based on and it said “no results.” At first I thought this was part of the joke, but no, our tech is just beyond dead.
jppope
Looks like a cool project. That said, it doesn't pass the sniff test on the methodology- Something like 30% of the score is just related to bitching and instability. Imagine a crazy world where maintainers/owners do a good job on serving their community and building good tech... clearly a death sentence
jobehi
That’s right. But isn’t it how techs are declared dead ?
bikedspiritlake
The execution is a little iffy. Deno is nowhere close to being dead, and Elm is intentionally frozen for stability. The website also appears to be quite laggy, especially the dropdown menu for sorting.
That being said, it's a really cool idea and I'm glad how open it is. This has the potential to become an authoritative and useful source for considering software stability and support.
gorjusborg
I'd say Deno never got to be quite alive.
Node is the big player and Bun is the promising upstart from where I sit.
denkmoon
hilarious. you can mash f to pay respects too and it seems to count most of them.
Hi HN, I built this irony and data driven Regret-as-a-service tool to almost scientifically declare tech deaths. F.