People Holding Up the Internet
Across: phones and computers it ships on by default, a lower bound. Up: people who made ten or more changes in the last twelve months. We took the full public history of each project and kept the changes written between 7 October 2025 and 7 October 2026, leaving out merges and bots.
- ▪Across: phones and computers it ships on by default, a lower bound.
- ▪Up: people who made ten or more changes in the last twelve months.
- ▪We took the full public history of each project and kept the changes written between 7 October 2025 and 7 October 2026, leaving out merges and bots.
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Record
| Original publisher | Sheets |
| Canonical URL | https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet |
| Publication time | Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:41:35 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-08T07:10:46.621Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-08T07:10:46.621Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 9Xilcn5piOmy · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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How we know Each dot is one project. Across: phones and computers it ships on by default, a lower bound. Up: people who made ten or more changes in the last twelve months. Hover a dot. We took the full public history of each project and kept the changes written between 7 October 2025 and 7 October 2026, leaving out merges and bots. A person counts if they made ten or more changes in that time. A change's author is not always the maintainer, and some of these projects publish their history as a copy of another system. For devices we counted a project on a platform only when we could see it there. On Android we listed the system libraries of an Android 16 image and read inside them, which is how we found that Android's "liblzma" is 7-Zip's code and not xz.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Sheets.
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