Pith Number

pith:JBGYZPVY

pith:2017:JBGYZPVY72FBSDYAUQHDESDH2W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

We Don't Need Another Hero? The Impact of "Heroes" on Software Development

Akond Rahman, Alexander Sobran, Amritanshu Agrawal, Rahul Krishna, Tim Menzies

arxiv:1710.09055 v2 · 2017-10-25 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JBGYZPVY72FBSDYAUQHDESDH2W}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:20:56.088795Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

484d8cbeb8fe8a190f00a40e324867d5b2e8b2eed0cfdfbea95ac843f9eb4a8e

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09055 · arxiv_version: 1710.09055v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09055 · pith_short_12: JBGYZPVY72FB · pith_short_16: JBGYZPVY72FBSDYA · pith_short_8: JBGYZPVY

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/JBGYZPVY72FBSDYAUQHDESDH2W \
  | 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: 484d8cbeb8fe8a190f00a40e324867d5b2e8b2eed0cfdfbea95ac843f9eb4a8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "321a2facc7239955183a87b7800c741d7c0c5d498bb61dfa29629b6f62bbfccf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-25T02:26:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20c6c852161c2f1c9f6faaa518b35e922a91f2ec00ca382d0767b416d7b7a045"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.09055",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}