In May of this year, our open-source software startup Elementl closed a successful Series B round. In the run-up to the fundraising, I spent a fair amount of time preoccupied with GitHub stars. If you ...

Millions of users of GitHub, the premier online platform for sharing open-source software, rely on stars to establish their software product's credibility. But new research from Carnegie Mellon ...

Github secured its status as a programmer's best friend by combining tools for managing software with collaboration features that create a kind of social network for the code-literate. Its success has ...

Checkmarx is calling the latest attack technique ‘StarJacking,’ which relies on inflated star ratings to lure developers into traps. Cybersecurity company Checkmarx said it has discovered that hackers ...

The current study JavaScript Rising Stars 2025 has been released. It measures the popularity of JavaScript projects based on new GitHub stars added within the last year. n8n leads this time by a wide ...

New research from Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science shows that GitHub users increasingly buy or trade for fake stars, then use their ill-gotten gains to attract unsuspecting users so they ...