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Find suspicious (and possibly faked) GitHub stars at-scale

3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2025-01-02 · latest 2026-09-01

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    Starscout: Find suspicious (and possibly faked) GitHub stars at-scale
    story by mdspan · 2026-09-01 · 0 comments
  2. …excellent choice of topic, fostering integrity again in the our industry. Here's the actual repo: https://github.com/hehao98/StarScout
    comment by mentalgear · 2025-01-02 · in 4.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub
  3. "StarScout, a scalable tool able to detect anomalous starring behaviors" can be found here: https://github.com/hehao98/StarScout
    comment by mentalgear · 2025-01-02 · in 4.5M Fake Stars in GitHub: Popularity Contests, Scams, and Malware [pdf]