4.5M (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub

1. HHVM

   1 28 18,318 10.0 C++

   A virtual machine for executing programs written in Hack.

   

   Sometimes projects get stars just because people like the personality or company behind the project.

   Case in point: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/. It got 15,000 stars in its first few years, but roughly 10 non-Facebook companies actually ever used it in production, and today only one non-Facebook company uses it (I work at that company).

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3. Bright

   2 2 6 10.0 Python

   Measure how bright your github repo shines, and learn about interesting work that the people who were (or could have been) inspired by your repo have done

   

   I wrote a whole benchmark which is not only resistant to this, but would automatically detect most fake stars!

   https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Bright

4. typedload

   3 6 255 8.1 Python

   Discontinued Python library to load dynamically typed data into statically typed data structures

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