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trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
A collection of inspiring lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.
★ 256k
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14.8k forks · 178 open issues
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Growth · measured
Stars counted between two of our own snapshots roughly a week apart. The repository page gives the exact span.
61.5
Momentum / 100
see the breakdown below
8y ago
Created
last push 23mo ago
Star history
How this score was built
| Component | Weight | Earned | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Velocity | 55 | 46.4 | +266/day, log-scaled against a 750/day ceiling |
| Acceleration | 15 | 0.1 | last week ran 1.01× the monthly pace |
| Freshness | 15 | 0.0 | last push 23mo ago; decays to zero at 180 days |
| Scale | 15 | 15.0 | 256k stars, log-scaled against 150k — stops a 3-star repo topping the board |
| Momentum | 100 | 61.5 | sum of the above |
Detail
| Topics | awesomeawesome-listbsdcheatsheetsdevopsguidelineshackinghackshowtoslinuxlistsmanualsone-linerspentestersresourcessearch-enginessecuritysecurity-researcherssysops |
| Matched on | Dev Tools (devops) Security (security) Learning & Roadmaps (awesome-list) |
| Short window | +1.9k stars over 7 days = 266.3/day |
| Long window | +6.9k stars over 26 days = 264.8/day |
| Lifetime average | 83.75 stars/day over 3,057 days |
| First seen here | 2026-10-11 |
| Last read | 2d ago |