Pith Number

pith:YSD7NU7I

pith:2024:YSD7NU7ISZW7MYH7MLJCEBBV7I

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Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware

Alexandros Kapravelos, Bogdan Vasilescu, Christian K\"astner, Hao He, Haoqin Yang, Philipp Burckhardt

arxiv:2412.13459 v2 · 2024-12-18 · cs.CR · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YSD7NU7ISZW7MYH7MLJCEBBV7I}

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T12:06:04.121755Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c487f6d3e8966df660ff62d2220435fa25135b9871a8b6babacada5bcacd02fe

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.13459 · arxiv_version: 2412.13459v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.13459 · pith_short_12: YSD7NU7ISZW7 · pith_short_16: YSD7NU7ISZW7MYH7 · pith_short_8: YSD7NU7I

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/YSD7NU7ISZW7MYH7MLJCEBBV7I \
  | 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: c487f6d3e8966df660ff62d2220435fa25135b9871a8b6babacada5bcacd02fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f0790238b5726b2b271f8cf9393740852b5ad46f8d47d167d1dae23fbabca92",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-18T03:03:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "10c44136fc190878e3aafc104996b57abc24c54c6c55c4f8a9b9c4556b3aae49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.13459",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}