Pith Number

pith:D5VXRPWR

pith:2025:D5VXRPWR5ZCSVHK2DHABFB3QGV

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Stack Overflow Is Not Dead Yet: Crowd Answers Still Matter

Denis Helic, Tiago Santos

arxiv:2509.05879 v2 · 2025-09-07 · cs.CY · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D5VXRPWR5ZCSVHK2DHABFB3QGV}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-19T16:09:50.765359Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f6b78bed1ee452a9d5a19c0128770354dbcb6277becaa7d13f14c4522ff3969

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.05879 · arxiv_version: 2509.05879v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.05879 · pith_short_12: D5VXRPWR5ZCS · pith_short_16: D5VXRPWR5ZCSVHK2 · pith_short_8: D5VXRPWR

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/D5VXRPWR5ZCSVHK2DHABFB3QGV \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 1f6b78bed1ee452a9d5a19c0128770354dbcb6277becaa7d13f14c4522ff3969

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2bc1ad759b11c9abf5d08c44af031e2ca5dd469233392ac7d193eec9218e0d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-07T00:43:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e01711155078a100340d2a05c927d96303b2b4f6e8c230fcdcd5b169f4e05c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.05879",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}