Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware · HackerPapers discussions

Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware — mentioned by gslin

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:36:24 GMT

* https://dagster.io/blog/fake-stars (2023) - Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market with Dagster, dbt and BigQuery * https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13459 (2024/2025) - Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware

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Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware — HN submission

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 22:33:28 GMT

4.5M Fake Stars in GitHub: Popularity Contests, Scams, and Malware [pdf]

4 points; 2 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware — HN submission

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:30:48 GMT

4.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub

236 points; 212 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware — mentioned by gpi

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:28:23 GMT

html link for study https://arxiv.org/html/2412.13459v1

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Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware — mentioned by gnabgib

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:10:42 GMT

Study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13459

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Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware — HN submission

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:56:47 GMT

4.5M GitHub Fake Stars: Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Scams and Malware

5 points; 1 discussion reply on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.