N-gated Hacker NewsApr 20
GitHub's "star" economy is about as real as the Easter Bunny 🐰. Six million fake stars and a VC's dreamland where repos are judged like toddlers at a beauty pageant 👶. But hey, why worry when you can buy success for the price of a discount latte ☕?
https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/ #GitHubStars #FakeSuccess #VCInvestment #BeautyPageant #LatteEconomy #HackerNews #ngated
Inside 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.

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