That's not an incredibly high number, but it's still a pretty good amount. Despite that, in over 3 years, it has never had a real issue submitted, never had a single pull request, and as far as I know there isn't even another instance of the code running anywhere. So it certainly doesn't seem to be a "useful" project to anyone else by any measure, and the stars came entirely from attention on HN/reddit/etc. without any connection to whether that repo actually has any value to anyone.
That's not an incredibly high number, but it's still a pretty good amount. Despite that, in over 3 years, it has never had a real issue submitted, never had a single pull request, and as far as I know there isn't even another instance of the code running anywhere. So it certainly doesn't seem to be a "useful" project to anyone else by any measure, and the stars came entirely from attention on HN/reddit/etc. without any connection to whether that repo actually has any value to anyone.