Stars are like for developers? and you have a bunch of creators now entering the arena. what did you expect?

Some projects I've encountered seem unremarkable, yet surprisingly, they have a lot of stars.

The fact that this article resonates, should I infer that the startup economy is picking back up?

Flair Driven Development. What do you think about a project that only has 15 pieces of flair?

IBM bought DataStax primarily based on Langflows fake stars. DataStax CEO shenanigans...

what's even more alarming is how exploitable GitHub Trending itself is these days. you can get the star count to fork ratio right and you land on the front page, which then pulls in real organic stars

So this is what real investigative journalism in the tech sector looks like ?

The stick of God doesn't make sound. God's work indeed

Cost of signalling is way lesser than the cost of verification.

see this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07919