dwmkerr/hacker-laws

Maintenance

Steady

Human commits, 30 days

0

Human commits, 90 days

11

Human commits, 365 days

23

Bot share of commits, 365 days

12%

Last commit

Sep 10, 2026 (1 month ago)

Last human commit

Sep 10, 2026 (1 month ago)

Authors, 90 days

2

Last release

May 19, 2026 (4 months ago)

Median PR merge time

14 hours

Responsiveness: of 0 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

• Only 0 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Personal account

Commits sampled

23 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

1

Contributors

97

Top committers

• dwmkerr: 87% of commits
• gaspodethewon: 9% of commits
• rjbarbour: 4% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence medium

Bursts

• May 13, 2019 to Jun 16, 2019: about 6.6k more stars than usual, peak 1.3k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Sep 23, 2019 to Sep 25, 2019: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 28 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 4, 2019 to Nov 8, 2019: about 602 more stars than usual, peak 329 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 22, 2019 to Nov 28, 2019: about 837 more stars than usual, peak 607 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 17, 2020 to Mar 9, 2020: about 2.8k more stars than usual, peak 852 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 13, 2020 to May 18, 2020: about 388 more stars than usual, peak 291 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 16, 2020 to Jul 22, 2020: about 176 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Sep 20, 2020 to Sep 25, 2020: about 403 more stars than usual, peak 202 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Aug 12, 2021 to Aug 16, 2021: about 139 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jan 1, 2022 to Jan 21, 2022: about 3.8k more stars than usual, peak 795 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 20, 2022 to Feb 25, 2022: about 165 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Mar 30, 2025 to Apr 16, 2025: about 407 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
• Jul 30, 2025 to Aug 1, 2025: about 50 more stars than usual, peak 35 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.

• The star history was reset at some point, so earlier stars aren't counted.

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

• The star history looks organic.
• The star history has a zero run of 26 weeks or more, so the analysis starts after it.
• Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

• Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.1 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now

No license found

A year ago

Not known

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.1 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: dwmkerr/hacker-laws