It's shorthand for "I have a distaste for this thing which I presume to be understood if not necessarily shared." I was wrong about that.
This isn't musical at all! It's some lazy shit a high-schooler with free time and a vague understanding of the Web Audio API could do. Moreover, there's no value in it. The abstract "sonificiation of real data" is such a low bar, there's so much room for creativity, and there are so many brilliant artists who (rightfully) don't want to wade in the depths of the hacky web-tech garbage necessary to make something like this work that it's a wonder anyone gives a fuck about this. To find any value in this, one would have to have tuned out somewhere between having an abstract understanding of the project and actually listening to the darn thing.
Now, do you really want to discuss the merit of the thing, or would you rather Get Offended on the Internet?
Sorry if I wasn't clear, but my comment was strictly procedural and divorced from the topic. We ask that community members post civilly and substantively on Hacker News or not at all, because we're here to learn and to gratify our intellectual curiosity. Any substantive discussion of the merit of the original post would include information, which your comment lacked.
This brings up a good point.. what is a valuable mapping of the type [ stream of data ] => [stream of Sound] ?
If the input was a stream of random bytes you could immediately list an infinite number of different ways to turn that into sound of some kind. Most of those would probably be as interesting as listening to random tones.
In this case, it would be interesting if the music communicated something meaningful about the github pull requests rather than just using github as a random number generator to make pleasant bell tones.
One example might be that a pull request that solved some long-standing much discussed bug would stand out musically by being loud, introducing a new sound, or resolving a tension present in the music. To contrast, a PR that changed some documentation might generate hardly any change in the music.
