The-Art-of-Hacking/h4cker

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29.8k stars · 5.4k forks · Jupyter Notebook

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 72% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A second person takes a substantial share of commits.

Maintenance

Complete

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 10
Human commits, 90 days: 25
Human commits, 365 days: 176
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 5%
Last commit: Oct 13, 2026 (2 days ago)
Last human commit: Oct 13, 2026 (2 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 17
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: under an hour

Responsiveness: of 5 recent issues, 100% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 34 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 176 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 2
Contributors: 57

Top committers

santosomar: 72% of commits
bad-antics: 12% of commits
xizhuomengcontin: 2% of commits
Copilot: 1% of commits
jonaslejon: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Jun 1, 2018 to Jun 8, 2018: about 252 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jun 14, 2018 to Jun 15, 2018: about 24 more stars than usual, peak 18 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 24, 2018 to Aug 24, 2018: about 27 more stars than usual, peak 28 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Feb 5, 2019 to Feb 14, 2019: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 327 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 15, 2019 to Jul 18, 2019: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Feb 20, 2020 to Mar 3, 2020: about 2.2k more stars than usual, peak 566 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
Oct 11, 2020 to Oct 16, 2020: about 930 more stars than usual, peak 276 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 1, 2022 to May 3, 2022: about 301 more stars than usual, peak 225 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Mar 11, 2023 to Mar 15, 2023: about 361 more stars than usual, peak 219 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 25, 2024 to Aug 6, 2024: about 305 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 11, 2026 to Jun 19, 2026: about 764 more stars than usual, peak 276 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.

4 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.7 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.7 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: The-Art-of-Hacking/h4cker

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 14, 2026: Caution

Computed 10 hours ago · method 2026.10.2