I think this is useful in answering the grandparent comment's question:

stars : uniq(k)

1 : 14946505

10 : 1196622

100 : 213026

1000 : 28944

10000 : 1847

100000 : 20

each line (mostly) being equal length provides me an odd comfort

power law distribution ~1/x I think

Zipf's law?

only 80 more repos need 100000 stars and all lines would be equal! e.g.

1 : 14946505

10 : 1196622

100 : 213026

1000 : 28944

10000 : 1847

100000 : 100

you would lose 80 repos from "10000 : 1847" also in that case.

interesting that you only need ~150 stars on a project for it to be in the top 1%

Let's establish a roving band of ~150 GitHub users that go around 1% things.