GitHub repositories taking off in the last year

Ranked by how many more stars each repo got in the last year than its pace over the 365 days before would predict, lowest first. Star counts come from GitHub. Last updated 7 Nov 2026, 17:20 UTC.

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How the ranking works

Stars gained: New stars in the window. "all" means the repo is younger than the window, so the number is every star it has.
Today: Stars since midnight US Pacific time, so a partial day.
Above pace: How many more stars the repo got than its pace in the window before would predict. +500 means 500 more than usual.
Momentum: A daily score: 8 points per star and 2 per fork since midnight UTC, reduced for repos that are this busy every day.
Speed-up: Stars per day in the window divided by stars per day in the window before. "New" means the repo is younger than the window. "Under 14 days" (twice the window; "Under 2 years" for 1 year) means it is older than the window but too young for a full window before it to compare with.
Suspected: Repositories with at least 50 stars are left out as likely bought stars when they have no detected programming language and got those stars within a day of being created; or got them within 14 days while having no watchers, at most 1 fork, no detected language or under 1 KB of code other than HTML and CSS, and either 5 KB or less of files or an owner that is a personal account with at most 1 follower. Repositories with no detected language are also left out when, at any age, they have 5 KB or less of files and got at least 90% of their stars on a single day that ended more than a day ago; or have 5 KB or less of files and belong to a personal account with no followers that was created at most an hour before the repository. Any repository with at least 50 stars is also left out when, under 3 days old, it has no watchers and at least 5 forks and belongs to a personal account with no followers; it stays out while that account has no followers. See them.
Bars: Stars per day (per week for 90 days and 1 year). Bright bars are the selected window. Heights use a square-root scale, so quieter days stay visible next to a spike.

#	Repository	Stars	Today	7d	30d	1y	Above pace ↓	Momentum	Speed-up
14051	Mozilla's Localization Platform Python · 15 years old	1,678	0	+3	+7	+102	-32	0	0.8x, slowing
14052	XChart is a light-weight Java library for plotting data. Java · 15 years old	1,596	0	0	+1	+44	-32	0	0.6x, slowing
14053	The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala. Scala · 15 years old	12,620	0	-1	+5	+124	-32	0	0.8x, slowing
14054	A datepicker for twitter bootstrap (@twbs) JavaScript · 14 years old	12,629	-1	-1	+1	+46	-32	0	0.6x, slowing
14055	An Open-Source subdivision surface library. C++ · 14 years old	3,088	-1	+1	+13	+98	-32	0	0.8x, slowing
14056	Server for Squeezebox and compatible players. This server is also called Lyrion Music Server. Perl · 14 years old	1,815	0	+4	+34	+311	-32	0	0.9x, slowing
14057	dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation R · 14 years old	5,079	0	0	+10	+179	-32	0	0.8x, slowing
14058	Apache Cordova Android JavaScript · 13 years old	3,797	0	0	+7	+76	-32	0	0.7x, slowing
14059	Tools for editing Shapefile, GeoJSON, TopoJSON and CSV files JavaScript · 13 years old	4,203	0	+3	+16	+224	-32	0	0.9x, slowing
14060	Manage your app's Node.js environment Shell · 13 years old	2,415	0	-1	+3	+88	-32	0	0.7x, slowing
14061	Fast Base64 stream encoder/decoder in C99, with SIMD acceleration C · 13 years old	1,026	0	+2	+5	+64	-32	0	0.7x, slowing
14062	Package scripts for Cygwin targets to build under MSYS2. Shell · 13 years old	1,399	0	+1	+3	+50	-32	0	0.6x, slowing
14063	C++ wrapper for FFmpeg C++ · 13 years old	543	0	0	+2	+32	-32	0	0.5x, slowing
14064	DebugView++, collects, views, filters your application logs, and highlights information that is important to you! C · 12 years old	1,277	0	0	+11	+123	-32	0	0.8x, slowing
14065	Mcrouter is a memcached protocol router for scaling memcached deployments. C++ · 12 years old	3,334	0	0	+2	+41	-32	0	0.6x, slowing
14066	Simple mDNS client/server library in Golang Go · 12 years old	1,397	0	+2	+12	+97	-32	0	0.8x, slowing
14067	Package manager and build abstraction tool for FPGA/ASIC development Python · 12 years old	1,482	0	+3	+10	+133	-32	0	0.8x, slowing
14068	ˈyːbɐˌzɪçt Objective-C · 12 years old	5,015	0	+6	+22	+258	-32	0	0.9x, slowing
14069	The development repository for the deal.II finite element library C++ · 12 years old	1,756	+1	+4	+23	+191	-32	8	0.9x, slowing
14070	Python module to drive a SSD1306 / SSD1309 / SSD1322 / SSD1325 / SSD1327 / SSD1331 / SSD1351 / SH1106 OLED Python · 12 years old	879	0	0	0	+25	-32	0	0.4x, slowing
14071	An opinionated formatter/linter for Dart code Dart · 12 years old	700	0	-1	-2	+20	-32	0	0.4x, slowing
14072	tools for working with genome variation graphs C++ · 12 years old	1,348	0	0	+5	+108	-32	0	0.8x, slowing
14073	The swiss army knife for Magento developers, sysadmins and devops. The tool provides a huge set of well tested command line commands which save hours of work time. All commands are extendable by a module API. PHP · 12 years old	926	0	0	+1	+24	-32	0	0.4x, slowing
14074	A Middleware for Go Programming Language to check for JWTs on HTTP requests Go · 11 years old	1,210	0	0	+3	+54	-32	0	0.6x, slowing
14075	Real-time audio in NixOS Nix · 11 years old	967	0	+3	+13	+184	-32	0	0.9x, slowing
14076	Free exFAT file system implementation C · 11 years old	890	0	+2	+4	+34	-32	0	0.5x, slowing
14077	Open source hot backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB databases C++ · 11 years old	1,561	0	0	+5	+134	-32	0	0.8x, slowing
14078	An Android library for managing images and the memory they use. Kotlin · 11 years old	17,159	0	0	+10	+127	-32	0	0.8x, slowing
14079	All-in-one solution for creating networked applications with RPC, pub/sub, server deployment, and more. C++ · 11 years old	2,201	0	0	+7	+76	-32	0	0.7x, slowing
14080	The DirectX Tool Kit (aka DirectXTK) is a collection of helper classes for writing DirectX 11.x code in C++ C++ · 11 years old	2,868	0	0	+10	+160	-32	0	0.8x, slowing
14081	ShopifySharp is a .NET library that helps developers easily authenticate with and manage Shopify stores using Shopify's GraphQL API. C# · 11 years old	903	0	+1	+4	+65	-32	0	0.7x, slowing
14082	A scala implementation of the Lightning Network. Scala · 11 years old	1,350	0	+1	+5	+55	-32	0	0.6x, slowing
14083	pytest plugin for distributed testing and loop-on-failures testing modes. Python · 11 years old	1,931	0	+2	+15	+221	-32	0	0.9x, slowing
14084	Free 2D graphics engine with raster effects for retro/classic style game development C · 11 years old	1,065	0	+1	+8	+101	-32	0	0.8x, slowing
14085	A distributed task scheduler for Dask Python · 11 years old	1,697	0	+2	+3	+55	-32	0	0.6x, slowing
14086	A utility for connecting securely to your Cloud SQL instances Go · 11 years old	1,438	0	0	+2	+71	-32	0	0.7x, slowing
14087	Constraint Solving Problem resolver for Python Python · 11 years old	521	0	0	+2	+31	-32	0	0.5x, slowing
14088	Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness. PHP · 11 years old	5,623	0	-1	+4	+67	-32	0	0.7x, slowing
14089	ESLint rules for Node Security JavaScript · 11 years old	2,379	0	-1	+1	+85	-32	0	0.7x, slowing
14090	Slevomat Coding Standard for PHP_CodeSniffer provides many useful sniffs PHP · 10 years old	1,478	0	0	0	+38	-32	0	0.5x, slowing
14091	Leptonica is an open source library containing software that is broadly useful for image processing and image analysis applications. The official github repository for Leptonica is: danbloomberg/leptonica. See leptonica.org for more documentation. C · 10 years old	2,104	+2	+4	+11	+151	-32	24	0.8x, slowing
14092	NGA客户端开源版代码仓库 Java · 10 years old	601	+1	+2	+5	+58	-32	8	0.6x, slowing
14093	A database migration tool. Supports SQL migrations and Go functions. Go · 10 years old	11,665	+3	+21	+117	+2,375	-32	34	1.0x, steady
14094	Inferring CNV from Single-Cell RNA-Seq R · 10 years old	686	0	0	+2	+52	-32	0	0.6x, slowing
14095	100% working container for Nominatim Shell · 10 years old	1,572	0	+1	+11	+222	-32	0	0.9x, slowing
14096	R Weekly HTML · 10 years old	830	0	0	+5	+50	-32	0	0.6x, slowing
14097	B-tree implementation for Go Go · 10 years old	1,235	0	+1	+4	+81	-32	0	0.7x, slowing
14098	Media Process Platform (MPP) module C · 10 years old	1,109	0	+6	+25	+253	-32	0	0.9x, slowing
14099	No description CSS · 10 years old	788	0	+1	+3	+51	-32	0	0.6x, slowing
14100	DB agnostic framework to build auto-documented REST APIs with Flask and marshmallow Python · 10 years old	717	0	0	+1	+18	-32	0	0.4x, slowing

Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day.