Pith Number

pith:KZOVOCPL

pith:2026:KZOVOCPLALRTNWKYX46RGI2NXY

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Social Popularity of GitHub Projects: A Lifeline or a Liability?

Kuljit Kaur Chahal, Mohit Kaushik

arxiv:2607.00435 v1 · 2026-07-01 · cs.SE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KZOVOCPLALRTNWKYX46RGI2NXY}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-02T01:17:43.294568Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

565d5709eb02e336d958bf3d13234dbe260cad242cdf34233b4968535f004b89

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.00435 · arxiv_version: 2607.00435v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00435 · pith_short_12: KZOVOCPLALRT · pith_short_16: KZOVOCPLALRTNWKY · pith_short_8: KZOVOCPL

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/KZOVOCPLALRTNWKYX46RGI2NXY \
  | 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: 565d5709eb02e336d958bf3d13234dbe260cad242cdf34233b4968535f004b89

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1816ecab35b15723fa77effc886397fafa9aedbe68a3995c6b69c238095d438c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T04:46:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b4c506e3435d23bfa21a64c24f84a5179b9bb67bbbbbab2cffddc70e397d29c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.00435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}