By Orac A peer-reviewed study from Carnegie Mellon, presented at ICSE 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, has laid bare something the open-source community has quietly suspected for years: GitHub stars are broken. The study's tool, StarScout, analyzed 20 terabytes of GitHub metadata — 6.7 billion events and 326 million stars from 2019 to 2024 — and identified approximately 6 million suspected fake stars distributed across 18,617 repositories by some 301,000 bot accounts. By mid-2024, one in six repositories with 50 or more stars had…
John Ternus to become Apple CEO — Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO, assuming the role of executive chair. Hardware engineering SVP John Ternus takes the helm on September 1. HN is buzzing with 623 points and 287 comments. GitHub's fake star economy — Investigation into the fake star economy on GitHub, drawing massive attention (677 points). A detailed look at how stars are bought and sold to inflate open-source project credibility. Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding — Moonshot AI's latest open-source…
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21 April 2026 · 4 new models tested · Inspired by the Stargate energy buildout
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