Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking
A collection of various awesome lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers
122.5k stars · 10.8k forks
This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 87% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. The repository holds mostly documentation, data or model files, so inactivity matters less than for a code library. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 2
- Human commits, 365 days
- 15
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Jul 26, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Jul 26, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 46 hours
Too few recent issues to measure responsiveness.
- Issues are disabled, so response time is not measured.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 15 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 29
Top committers
- 0xbadshah: 87% of commits
- grayguava: 7% of commits
- heit0r: 7% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Oct 12, 2016 to Oct 14, 2016: about 45 more stars than usual, peak 34 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 13, 2016 to Dec 11, 2016: about 3.5k more stars than usual, peak 803 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 25, 2016 to Dec 26, 2016: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Apr 8, 2017 to Apr 27, 2017: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 368 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jun 12, 2017 to Jun 14, 2017: about 122 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 20, 2017 to Jul 21, 2017: about 128 more stars than usual, peak 93 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Aug 6, 2017 to Aug 31, 2017: about 7.1k more stars than usual, peak 1.1k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 6, 2017 to Sep 8, 2017: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 5, 2018 to Mar 6, 2018: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 79 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 7, 2018 to May 8, 2018: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 26, 2018 to Jun 7, 2018: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 657 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 10, 2018 to Sep 12, 2018: about 157 more stars than usual, peak 116 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Sep 25, 2018 to Sep 27, 2018: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- May 5, 2019 to May 5, 2019: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Aug 4, 2019 to Aug 5, 2019: about 70 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Dec 23, 2019 to Dec 28, 2019: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 405 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
- Jan 22, 2020 to Jan 23, 2020: about 179 more stars than usual, peak 115 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jul 15, 2020 to Jul 21, 2020: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 427 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Oct 6, 2021 to Oct 11, 2021: about 930 more stars than usual, peak 317 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Feb 4, 2022 to Feb 7, 2022: about 338 more stars than usual, peak 247 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Mar 7, 2022 to Mar 7, 2022: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jun 29, 2022 to Jul 3, 2022: about 557 more stars than usual, peak 197 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 4, 2022 to Aug 5, 2022: about 156 more stars than usual, peak 164 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Oct 31, 2024 to Nov 4, 2024: about 444 more stars than usual, peak 253 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jan 2, 2026 to Jan 3, 2026: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 104 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Apr 21, 2026 to Apr 21, 2026: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 126 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- May 21, 2026 to May 22, 2026: about 92 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Aug 13, 2026 to Aug 13, 2026: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Oct 13, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 145 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- 8 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- CC0-1.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- CC0-1.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
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[](https://reporadar.ai/Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Computed 20 hours ago · method 2026.10.2