https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2608.17906/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:27:26 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697367urn:hackerpapers:submission:2608.17906:49697367Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:22:36 GMT<p>A repo gained 3,278 stars while GitHub showed Andrej Karpathy as a contributor</p><p>A GitHub repo gained 3,278 stars in one week, peaking at 573 stars in a single day. Its associated paper also reached #1 on Hugging Face Trending Papers. During that period, the repo page prominently showed @karpathy (Andrej Karpathy) as a contributor, including his GitHub account/avatar. The associated commit was authored and committed as @karpathy. GitHub&#x27;s API shows the commit was unsigned. A GitHub issue later questioned this, saying Karpathy never contributed. The project subsequently removed the commit. Forging Git commit author metadata is a known issue. What&#x27;s interesting here is how…</p><p>6 points; 3 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2608.17906/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.AIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360126urn:hackerpapers:submission:2608.17906:49360126Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:33:37 GMT<p>AutoResearch: Insight In, Hallucination Out</p><p></p><p>2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2608.17906/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.AI