GitHub's Fake Star Economy

Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.
794 points by Liriel 185 days ago awesomeagents.ai 367 comments
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