# fjaeckel/seriesoftubes

> A free cartoon browser game about how the internet really works: lay fiber and subsea cables, peer at IXPs, bill on the 95th percentile and survive backhoes, sharks and route leaks on your way to Tier 1.

- Magnitude: 2.9 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 122 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-29, 00:03–02:13 UTC, ≈ 18 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: JavaScript · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-23 · Last push: 2026-10-29
- GitHub: https://github.com/fjaeckel/seriesoftubes · Homepage: https://seriesoftub.es/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/fjaeckel/seriesoftubes

## Useful for

- Play a browser game to learn how peering, transit and 95th percentile billing work
- Simulate subsea cable cuts and route leaks to see how traffic reroutes
- Run the game locally with npm run dev to modify or extend it

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-29 (UTC), 00:03–02:13: 121 → 122 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +18 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 6 days old and already has 122 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #161.
- Hacker News: “Series of Tubes – Build the Internet, One Tube at a Time” — 7 points, 2 days ago.
- About 7 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 31
- Issues and pull requests: 200
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 20 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v1.37.0 (2026-10-28)

## Stars per day, last 7 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-23 … 2026-10-29: 18, 20, 23, 22, 19, 20, 1

## Hacker News

- Series of Tubes – Build the Internet, One Tube at a Time — 7 points, 2 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241251

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #161

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