eriklindernoren/ml-from-scratch vs karpathy/autoresearch
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, ml-from-scratch and autoresearch both show mixed maintenance signals. ml-from-scratch last saw a commit 2 years ago with 9+ active contributors, while autoresearch last saw a commit 3 months ago with 9+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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eriklindernoren/ml-from-scratch →
Stale — last commit 3y ago
last commit was 3y ago; top contributor handles 91% of recent commits…
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 3y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 91% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓9 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
- →Fork & modify Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
karpathy/autoresearch →
Missing license — unclear to depend on
no license — legally unclear; no tests detected…
no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 78% of recent commits
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 6w ago
- ✓9 active contributors
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| ml-from-scratch | autoresearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 31,436 | 79,838 |
| Last commit | 2y ago | 3mo ago |
| License | MIT | — |
| Open issues | 73 | 186 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | — | — |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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