Because it's more project-specific and thus stands out more. There are a ton of Github links posted to HN, obviously.
If you'd rather we switch to the other URL, let us know and we can do that.
If you'd rather we switch to the other URL, let us know and we can do that.
The submitted title ("Show HN: An open-source distributed graph database written in C++") led to lots of arguments, so we changed it in accordance with HN's rules about baity titles. That's in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.