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George Hotz

@geohot

We will commoditize the petaflop.

  • @commaai @tinygrad
  • San Diego, CA
  • 23K
    Total stars
  • 47K
    Followers
  • 55
    Public repos
  • 3,241
    Contributions

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  • Contributions: 3,241. Past 12 months.
  • Followers: 47,401. People who follow you.
  • Total stars: 23,045. Across all repos.
  • Following: 0. People you follow.
  • Public repos: 55. Owned, non-fork.

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Every leaf is a headline number from George Hotz’s public GitHub. The canopy fills out as the work grows - sway and all.

  • 3,241 Contributions Past 12 months
  • 47K Followers People who follow you
  • 23K Total stars Across all repos
  • 0 Following People you follow
  • 55 Public repos Owned, non-fork

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What your GitHub says

Based on public GitHub activity · how this is calculated

  • C is the largest language share across analyzed repositories, at 97%.

    High confidence

  • Public GitHub activity is evenly spread across commits, pull requests, reviews and issues.

    Medium confidence

  • Most analyzed repositories (37 of 40) show no public activity in over a year.

    Medium confidence

  • This analysis covers 40 of 55 public repositories (73%); broader totals may differ.

    High confidence

Profile health

Signals from analyzed public data

Activity 100

Strong

  • 3,241 contributions in the trailing year
  • 6-day current streak
Portfolio 34

Needs work

  • 2 of 40 analyzed repositories are actively maintained
  • 23,045 stars across analyzed repositories
Discoverability 29

Needs work

  • 3 of 40 analyzed repositories have no description
  • 39 of 40 have no topic tags
Maintenance 5

Needs work

  • 2 of 40 analyzed repositories were pushed to in the last 6 months
  • 37 show no public activity in over a year
Collaboration 73

Developing

  • 1,145 pull requests and 59 code reviews in the trailing year
  • 93 repositories starred

Recruiter snapshot

A skim of public evidence, not a hiring judgement

Technical focus
C / C++ / Jupyter Notebook / Solidity

Largest language shares across analyzed repositories

Project depth
2 of 40

Analyzed repositories rated established or maintained

Collaboration
1,145 PRs / 59 reviews

Public pull requests and code reviews in the trailing year

Community signals
23,045 stars / 2,818 forks

Summed across analyzed repositories

Recent activity
12 of last 12 months

Calendar months with at least one tracked contribution

Strongest signals

  • 3,241 contributions in the trailing year
  • 1,145 pull requests and 59 code reviews in the trailing year

3,241
Contributions
Past 12 months
6
Current streak
Sep 18, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026
42
Longest streak
Oct 14, 2025 – Nov 24, 2025
Sep Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Mon Wed Fri
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Language distribution for geohot C 97.3%, C++ 1.1%, Jupyter Notebook 0.8%, Solidity 0.3%, Python 0.2%, Prolog 0.1%, Other 0.3%
  • C 97.3%
  • C++ 1.1%
  • Jupyter Notebook 0.8%
  • Solidity 0.3%
  • Python 0.2%
  • Prolog 0.1%
  • Other 0.3%

Frontend Backend Mobile DevOps Data AI Security Embedded Game Dev
  • Backend 100
  • Data 88
  • DevOps 73
  • Embedded 65
  • Frontend 38
  • Mobile 8
  • AI 0
  • Security 0
  • Game Dev 0

Longest streak
42d
Oct 2025
Favourite coding day
Tuesday
508 contributions
Most active year
2025
2,730 contributions
Signature language
C
97% of tracked code
Flagship repository
fromthetransistor
6,779 stars
On GitHub since
2009
17 years and counting

George Hotz maintains a public GitHub presence built primarily around C, which accounts for roughly 97% of their committed code, alongside C++ and Jupyter Notebook. The profile lists 55 public repositories that have attracted 23,045 stars, led by fromthetransistor at 6,779. Over the past year they recorded 3,241 contributions, including a longest run of 42 consecutive active days. George Hotz has been on GitHub since 2009 and is followed by 47,401 developers.

This overview is generated from George Hotz’s public GitHub activity at the time of the last refresh. Figures cover public repositories and the trailing twelve months of contributions.

  1. 01

    Review qira

    High impact

    qira is pinned to your profile but hasn't been pushed to in over a year.

    qira →
  2. 02

    Add topics to qira

    High impact

    qira is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.

    qira →
  3. 03

    Review fromthetransistor

    High impact

    fromthetransistor is pinned to your profile but hasn't been pushed to in over a year.

    fromthetransistor →
  4. 04

    Add topics to fromthetransistor

    High impact

    fromthetransistor is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.

    fromthetransistor →
  5. 05

    Review minikeyvalue

    High impact

    minikeyvalue is pinned to your profile but hasn't been pushed to in over a year.

    minikeyvalue →
  6. 06

    Add topics to minikeyvalue

    High impact

    minikeyvalue is pinned but has no topic tags, making its stack harder to identify.

    minikeyvalue →
  7. 07

    Review ai-notebooks

    High impact

    ai-notebooks is pinned to your profile but hasn't been pushed to in over a year.

    ai-notebooks →

How these are calculated: see the methodology page .

fromthetransistor

From the Transistor to the Web Browser, a rough outline for a 12 week course

6,779 ★ 537 forks 21 issues 2d ago
GitHub
qira

QEMU Interactive Runtime Analyser

C 4,069 ★ 467 forks 63 issues 2d ago
MIT GitHub
minikeyvalue

A distributed key value store in under 1000 lines. Used in production at comma.ai

Go 3,154 ★ 262 forks 8 issues 4d ago
MIT GitHub
corona

Reverse engineering SARS-CoV-2

  • covid-19
Python 2,510 ★ 482 forks 26 issues 6d ago
GitHub
ai-notebooks

Some ipython notebooks implementing AI algorithms

Jupyter Notebook 1,426 ★ 218 forks 8 issues 6d ago
GitHub
twitchslam

A toy implementation of monocular SLAM written while livestreaming

Python 1,004 ★ 212 forks 8 issues 2d ago
MIT GitHub
tinyvoice

Letting computers listen to you and really care

Jupyter Notebook 370 ★ 32 forks 2 issues 12d ago
GitHub

Most popular
fromthetransistor

6,779 stars

Most recently active
configuration

Last pushed 1mo ago

Longest maintained
configuration

Active for 12.8y

Most discoverable
qira

50% of discoverability signals present

tinygrad

You like pytorch? You like micrograd? You love tinygrad! ❤️

Python 33,643 ★ 4,349 forks
openpilot

openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system on 300+ supported cars.

Python 63,705 ★ 11,383 forks
qira

QEMU Interactive Runtime Analyser

C 4,069 ★ 467 forks
fromthetransistor

From the Transistor to the Web Browser, a rough outline for a 12 week course

6,779 ★ 537 forks
minikeyvalue

A distributed key value store in under 1000 lines. Used in production at comma.ai

Go 3,154 ★ 262 forks
ai-notebooks

Some ipython notebooks implementing AI algorithms

Jupyter Notebook 1,426 ★ 218 forks

  • fromthetransistor 6,779 ★

    From the Transistor to the Web Browser, a rough outline for a 12 week course

  • qira 4,069 ★

    QEMU Interactive Runtime Analyser

  • minikeyvalue 3,154 ★

    A distributed key value store in under 1000 lines. Used in production at comma.ai

  • corona 2,510 ★

    Reverse engineering SARS-CoV-2

  • ai-notebooks 1,426 ★

    Some ipython notebooks implementing AI algorithms

  • twitchslam 1,004 ★

    A toy implementation of monocular SLAM written while livestreaming

All repositories →

Public visibility is moderately spread across several repositories rather than one or two.

Top 1 repository 29% of stars
Top 3 repositories 61% of stars
Top 5 repositories 78% of stars

Leading repository: fromthetransistor (6,779 stars, 23,045 total across analyzed repositories)

Technology breakdown

Derived from repository languages and topics - horizontal bars, never a pie.

Languages

  • C 97%
  • C++ 1%
  • Jupyter Notebook 1%
  • Solidity 0%
  • Python 0%
  • Prolog 0%

README, contributing-guide and GitHub Actions badges below are detected by exact filename on each repository’s default branch - they report presence, not quality.

  • fromthetransistor Dormant
    Popularity 100
    Discoverability 25
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • configuration Maintained
    Popularity 7
    Discoverability 25
    Maintenance 85
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • qira Dormant
    Popularity 62
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • minikeyvalue Dormant
    Popularity 47
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide CI: 1 workflow
  • factoring Maintained
    Popularity 1
    Discoverability 25
    Maintenance 65
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • corona Dormant
    Popularity 40
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • twitchslam Dormant
    Popularity 16
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • babygrad Developing
    Popularity 0
    Discoverability 25
    Maintenance 40
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • ai-notebooks Dormant
    Popularity 22
    Discoverability 25
    Maintenance 15
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • twitchchess Dormant
    Popularity 6
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • lolrecaptcha Dormant
    Popularity 4
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow
  • eda-reversing Dormant
    Popularity 2
    Discoverability 50
    Maintenance 0
    No README No contributing guide No CI workflow

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55
Public repos
40 analyzed
23K
Total stars
Across all repos
3,241
Contributions
Past 12 months
1,145
Pull requests
Opened this year
33
Public gists
Snippets shared
17 y
Account age
Since 2009
90 %
Profile score
Completeness

Repository explorer

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Name Language Stars Forks Size Updated

Coding statistics

→
Largest repository
210.0 MB
twitchslam
Smallest repository
1 KB
boomgpt
Oldest repository
Apr 12, 2009
eda-reversing
Newest repository
Apr 18, 2026
factoring
Most starred
6,779 ★
fromthetransistor
Most forked
537 forks
fromthetransistor
Most watched
203 watchers
fromthetransistor
Longest description
87 characters
coq-hardy
Most open issues
63 open
qira

Contribution patterns

→

By year

  • 2026
    1,897
  • 2025
    2,730
  • 2024
    2,564
  • 2023
    2,225
  • 2022
    1,482
  • 2021
    2,560

By day of week

  • Sun
    266
  • Mon
    468
  • Tue
    508
  • Wed
    482
  • Thu
    488
  • Fri
    417
  • Sat
    313

Best coding day: Tue

By month (last 12)

  • Oct
    347
  • Nov
    279
  • Dec
    387
  • Jan
    174
  • Feb
    282
  • Mar
    226
  • Apr
    288
  • May
    157
  • Jun
    176
  • Jul
    222
  • Aug
    202
  • Sep
    170

GitHub journey

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  1. April 2009

    Joined GitHub

    Created the @geohot account.

  2. April 2009

    Created first repository

    Published eda-reversing, the oldest repository still on the account.

  3. April 2009

    First starred repository

    eda-reversing is the earliest-created repository to have earned stars.

  4. March 2018

    Reached 10 repositories

    freethedsp was the 10th public repository created.

  5. June 2025

    Most productive year: 2025

    2,730 contributions recorded in 2025, more than any other year on record.

  6. April 2026

    Latest repository

    factoring is the most recently created repository.

Developer evolution

Your GitHub career, year by year.

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2009

Started with C++.

C++
Repos this year
2
Total repos
2
Stars, as of today
188
eda-reversing
2012

Shifted from C++ to C.

C
Repos this year
1
Total repos
3
Stars, as of today
221
crappycase
2013

Shifted from C to Python.

Python Shell
Repos this year
2
Total repos
5
Stars, as of today
704
configuration
2014

Shifted from Python to C.

C
Repos this year
2
Total repos
7
Stars, as of today
4.9k
qira
2016

Shifted from C to Go.

Go
Repos this year
2
Total repos
9
Stars, as of today
12k
fromthetransistor
2018

Shifted from Go to Python.

C Coq Python Shell
Repos this year
8
Total repos
17
Stars, as of today
14k
twitchslam
2019

Shifted from Python to Go.

Go JavaScript Jupyter Notebook Prolog
Repos this year
5
Total repos
22
Stars, as of today
19k
minikeyvalue
2020

Shifted from Go to C++.

C++ HTML Haskell Python
Repos this year
5
Total repos
27
Stars, as of today
22k
corona
2021

Went deeper into C++.

C++ JavaScript
Repos this year
2
Total repos
29
Stars, as of today
22k
Contributions
2,560
edgetpuxray
2022

Shifted from C++ to C.

C Jupyter Notebook
Repos this year
2
Total repos
31
Stars, as of today
22k
Contributions
1,482
tinyvoice
2023

Went deeper into C.

C
Repos this year
1
Total repos
32
Stars, as of today
22k
Contributions
2,225
amdgpu-dkms
2024

Shifted from C to Python.

C++ Python
Repos this year
4
Total repos
36
Stars, as of today
23k
Contributions
2,564
boomgpt
2025

Went deeper into Python.

Python Verilog
Repos this year
3
Total repos
39
Stars, as of today
23k
Contributions
2,730
gpunoob
2026

Went deeper into Python.

Python
Repos this year
1
Total repos
40
Stars, as of today
23k
Contributions
1,897
factoring

Built from geohot’s public, non-fork repositories. Star totals reflect current counts, not historical snapshots.

Achievements

6 / 9 unlocked

Explorer
Created repositories in 8 or more languages
Builder
More than 50 public repositories
Open Source Enthusiast
100+ stars received across all repositories
Consistent
A 100-day-or-longer contribution streak
Documentation Hero
5 or more repositories with a detailed description
Popular
500 or more followers
Prolific Committer
1,000 or more commits in the past 12 months
Long Timer
5 or more years on GitHub
Star Collector
Starred 100 or more repositories

Open source activity

23,045
Stars received
93
Repositories starred
2,818
Forks received
16
Issues opened
Past 12 months
1,145
Pull requests opened
Past 12 months
59
Reviews given
Past 12 months
33
Public gists

Language evolution

The primary languages of repositories created each year.

2009
  • C++
2012
  • C
2013
  • Python
  • Shell
2014
  • C
2016
  • Go
2018
  • C
  • Coq
  • Python
  • Shell
  • Verilog
2019
  • Go
  • JavaScript
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Prolog
  • Python
2020
  • C++
  • HTML
  • Haskell
  • Python
  • Shell
2021
  • C++
  • JavaScript
2022
  • C
  • Jupyter Notebook
2023
  • C
2024
  • C++
  • Python
2025
  • Python
  • Verilog
2026
  • Python

Repository growth

Repositories created per year, and the running total.

2 repositories created in 2009 1 repositories created in 2012 2 repositories created in 2013 2 repositories created in 2014 2 repositories created in 2016 8 repositories created in 2018 5 repositories created in 2019 5 repositories created in 2020 2 repositories created in 2021 2 repositories created in 2022 1 repositories created in 2023 4 repositories created in 2024 3 repositories created in 2025 1 repositories created in 2026 2 total repositories by end of 2009 3 total repositories by end of 2012 5 total repositories by end of 2013 7 total repositories by end of 2014 9 total repositories by end of 2016 17 total repositories by end of 2018 22 total repositories by end of 2019 27 total repositories by end of 2020 29 total repositories by end of 2021 31 total repositories by end of 2022 32 total repositories by end of 2023 36 total repositories by end of 2024 39 total repositories by end of 2025 40 total repositories by end of 2026 2009 2012 2013 2014 2016 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 40 0
Created that year Cumulative total

Language tree

Built automatically from repository languages and topics.

Programming Languages →
  • C
  • C++
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Solidity
  • Python
  • Prolog