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A GitHub repo gained 3,278 stars in one week, peaking at 573 stars in a single day. Its associated paper also reached #1 on Hugging Face Trending Papers.<p>During that period, the repo page prominently showed @karpathy (Andrej Karpathy) as a contributor, including his GitHub account&#x2F;avatar.<p>The associated commit was authored and committed as @karpathy. GitHub&#x27;s API shows the commit was unsigned.<p>A GitHub issue later questioned this, saying Karpathy never contributed. The project subsequently removed the commit.<p>Forging Git commit author metadata is a known issue. What&#x27;s interesting here is how that metadata was surfaced by GitHub as a visible contributor identity, and what role that may have played in this particular case.<p>Refs: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;EvoMap&#x2F;AutoResearch&#x2F;issues&#x2F;8 https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;EvoMap&#x2F;AutoResearch&#x2F;commit&#x2F;4606e68 https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;papers&#x2F;2608.17906

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/14 22:22:36