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, 19:20 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
14551	Converts a string to a slug. Includes integrations for Symfony, Silex, Laravel, Zend Framework 2, Twig, Nette and Latte. PHP · 14 years old	2,893	0	-1	-1	+13	-29	0	0.3x, slowing
14552	package compiler and linker metadata toolkit C · 14 years old	668	+1	+2	+11	+94	-29	8	0.8x, slowing
14553	Offers an async require.resolve function. It's highly configurable. JavaScript · 14 years old	987	0	0	+1	+19	-29	0	0.4x, slowing
14554	A best-practices CSS foundation CSS · 14 years old	5,312	0	-2	+6	+84	-29	0	0.7x, slowing
14555	troposphere - Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions Python · 13 years old	4,940	0	-1	+1	+24	-29	0	0.5x, slowing
14556	A code generator for MyBatis. Java · 13 years old	5,305	0	-2	+1	+45	-29	0	0.6x, slowing
14557	Python code for GeoIP2 webservice client and database reader Python · 13 years old	1,224	0	0	+4	+50	-29	0	0.6x, slowing
14558	Tallow - Transparent Tor for Windows C · 13 years old	561	0	+1	+1	+14	-29	0	0.3x, slowing
14559	VGMTrans - a tool to convert proprietary, sequenced videogame music to industry-standard formats C++ · 13 years old	1,303	+1	+5	+24	+219	-29	8	0.9x, slowing
14560	Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) - High Performance Message Codec Java · 13 years old	3,524	0	+2	+15	+208	-29	0	0.9x, slowing
14561	The official Firely .NET SDK for HL7 FHIR C# · 13 years old	942	0	+2	+5	+50	-29	0	0.6x, slowing
14562	A Docker image for Discourse Shell · 13 years old	1,862	0	-2	+1	+87	-29	0	0.8x, slowing
14563	A tiny, simple and fast heatmap plugin for Leaflet. JavaScript · 12 years old	1,661	-1	+3	+5	+51	-29	0	0.6x, slowing
14564	A simple ZSH quickstart for using ZSH, zgenom, oh-my-zsh and a curated list of extra plugins. It is designed to be easy to customize without requiring you to maintain your own fork. Shell · 12 years old	909	0	-1	+1	+60	-29	0	0.7x, slowing
14565	SimpleSAMLphp is an application written in native PHP that deals with authentication. PHP · 12 years old	1,145	0	0	+2	+33	-29	0	0.5x, slowing
14566	Go library for the Mailgun API. Go · 12 years old	743	0	0	0	+13	-29	0	0.3x, slowing
14567	BPMN 2.0 execution engine. Open source javascript workflow engine. JavaScript · 12 years old	973	0	0	+4	+34	-29	0	0.5x, slowing
14568	Ansible Role - Security Jinja · 12 years old	961	0	0	+3	+66	-29	0	0.7x, slowing
14569	FreeIPA server in containers — images at https://quay.io/repository/freeipa/freeipa-server?tab=tags Shell · 12 years old	710	0	+2	+4	+42	-29	0	0.6x, slowing
14570	An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker Emacs Lisp · 12 years old	22,802	0	+12	+98	+1,928	-29	0	1.0x, steady
14571	Replicate your Key Value Store across your network, with consistency, persistance and performance. Java · 12 years old	2,995	0	+1	+4	+104	-29	0	0.8x, slowing
14572	Agency Theme for Jekyll JavaScript · 12 years old	917	+1	+1	+1	+10	-29	10	0.3x, slowing
14573	Lightweight Communications and Marshalling Java · 12 years old	1,213	0	0	+6	+102	-29	0	0.8x, slowing
14574	Graph database implementing the RDF and SPARQL standards. Very fast and scales to more than a trillion triples on a single commodity machine C++ · 11 years old	940	+1	+6	+27	+258	-29	8	0.9x, slowing
14575	Tasks for Azure Pipelines TypeScript · 11 years old	3,662	0	+2	+6	+100	-29	0	0.8x, slowing
14576	Markdown parser written in kotlin Kotlin · 11 years old	968	0	0	+5	+127	-29	0	0.8x, slowing
14577	EasyAdmin is a fast, beautiful and modern admin generator for Symfony applications. PHP · 11 years old	4,312	0	-2	+3	+155	-29	0	0.8x, slowing
14578	No description Go · 11 years old	512	0	0	+1	+21	-29	0	0.4x, slowing
14579	Easy SSL pinning validation and reporting for iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS. Objective-C · 11 years old	2,145	0	+2	+3	+58	-29	0	0.7x, slowing
14580	Web / REST interface for downloading youtube videos onto a server. Python · 11 years old	934	0	+1	+3	+18	-29	0	0.4x, slowing
14581	A Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing. JavaScript · 11 years old	9,892	0	-2	0	+92	-29	0	0.8x, slowing
14582	Optimized UI components for Firebase Kotlin · 11 years old	4,809	0	+1	+11	+110	-29	0	0.8x, slowing
14583	A better `npm publish` JavaScript · 11 years old	7,717	0	+2	+8	+117	-29	8	0.8x, slowing
14584	Python package for scraping recipes data Python · 11 years old	2,265	+1	+5	+22	+273	-29	16	0.9x, slowing
14585	Successful Job Applications and Grants 11 years old	899	0	+1	+11	+94	-29	0	0.8x, slowing
14586	lzbench is an in-memory benchmark of open-source compressors C · 11 years old	1,103	0	+2	+13	+100	-29	0	0.8x, slowing
14587	An email parser written in PHP PHP · 10 years old	555	0	+1	+4	+38	-29	0	0.6x, slowing
14588	VHDL 2008/93/87 simulator VHDL · 10 years old	2,918	0	+1	+17	+274	-29	0	0.9x, slowing
14589	Zygo is a Lisp interpreter written in 100% Go. Central use case: dynamically compose Go struct trees in a zygo script, then invoke compiled Go functions on those trees. Makes Go reflection easy. Go · 10 years old	1,795	0	+3	+7	+37	-29	0	0.6x, slowing
14590	Easily generate RSS feeds PHP · 10 years old	985	0	+1	+2	+30	-29	0	0.5x, slowing
14591	ROS Wrapper for RealSense™ Cameras Python · 10 years old	3,481	0	+4	+20	+463	-29	0	0.9x, slowing
14592	A cross-platform and ultrafast toolkit for FASTA/Q file manipulation Go · 10 years old	1,606	0	+1	+11	+140	-29	0	0.8x, slowing
14593	Professional ACME Client for Windows (and now cross-platform via Certify Management Hub). Certificate Management UI, powered by Let's Encrypt and compatible with all ACME v2 CAs. Used by over 150,000 organisations. Download from certifytheweb.com C# · 10 years old	1,716	+1	+2	+9	+115	-29	8	0.8x, slowing
14594	A curated list of awesome technologies related to Anime, Comic and Games 10 years old	1,478	0	-2	+1	+89	-29	0	0.8x, slowing
14595	A productivity app that combines pomodoro timers and flow techniques to boost focus and efficiency. Kotlin · 10 years old	1,931	0	+4	+24	+488	-29	0	0.9x, slowing
14596	Nginx with automatic let's encrypt (docker image) Shell · 10 years old	686	0	0	0	+11	-29	0	0.3x, slowing
14597	TiDB database documentation. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed, MySQL-Compatible database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Python · 10 years old	616	0	0	+1	+5	-29	0	0.1x, slowing
14598	👉 Go to chevereto/chevereto for newer Chevereto releases. Self-hosted image sharing software, your own Flickr/Imgur with your very own rules. PHP · 10 years old	2,771	0	-2	+1	+26	-29	0	0.5x, slowing
14599	Bluetooth Audio ALSA Backend C · 10 years old	986	0	0	+1	+56	-29	0	0.7x, slowing
14600	GUI toolkit for go Go · 10 years old	994	0	+2	+6	+40	-29	0	0.6x, slowing

Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day. 13 more tracked repositories are still loading their star history and will join the ranking once it is complete.