I bet the recruiter just looked at the stars and said "yeah that's got to be a cool repo"
Re:Show HN: My CV is also a bootloader
by devnonymous on Saturday March 09, 2019 @09:36AM
(#19346284)
I've been contact by recruiters who must've heard from their peers that GitHub 'stars' were a good thing, so they mailed me being impressed by the number of repositories I had starred (which is what shows up in your GH profile page).
Another was impressed by https://github.com/tlrobinson/evil.css/
ಠ_ಠ