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, 20:20 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
15051	Machine learning for NeuroImaging in Python Python · 15 years old	1,453	0	+1	+11	+129	-26	0	0.8x, slowing
15052	A Django email backend for Amazon's Simple Email Service Python · 15 years old	1,096	0	+1	+7	+37	-26	0	0.6x, slowing
15053	Apache BookKeeper - a scalable, fault tolerant and low latency storage service optimized for append-only workloads Java · 15 years old	2,018	0	+2	+5	+59	-26	0	0.7x, slowing
15054	The future of Node.js REST development JavaScript · 15 years old	10,688	-1	-1	+4	+41	-26	0	0.6x, slowing
15055	NuGet Gallery is a package repository that powers https://www.nuget.org. Use this repo for reporting NuGet.org issues. C# · 15 years old	1,650	0	+1	+2	+55	-26	0	0.7x, slowing
15056	Carrot2: Text Clustering Algorithms and Applications Java · 15 years old	859	0	-1	0	+32	-26	0	0.6x, slowing
15057	jpegoptim - utility to optimize/compress JPEG files C · 15 years old	1,827	0	-1	+8	+118	-26	0	0.8x, slowing
15058	multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application HTML · 15 years old	2,475	+1	+2	+6	+60	-26	8	0.7x, slowing
15059	Yet one more wrapper around jail, bhyve, QEMU and XEN C · 14 years old	781	0	+1	+2	+51	-26	0	0.7x, slowing
15060	Create random strings that match a given regular expression. TypeScript · 14 years old	1,869	0	0	+3	+15	-26	0	0.4x, slowing
15061	WarpDrive is the lightweight data library for ambitious web apps — universal, typed, reactive, and ready to scale. TypeScript · 14 years old	3,160	0	0	+2	+67	-26	0	0.7x, slowing
15062	Unit testing and build system for C projects Ruby · 14 years old	864	0	+5	+10	+129	-26	0	0.8x, slowing
15063	An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition. C++ · 14 years old	6,818	+2	+7	+43	+685	-26	24	1.0x, steady
15064	Event-driven, streaming HTTP client and server implementation for ReactPHP. PHP · 14 years old	781	0	+1	+2	+12	-26	0	0.3x, slowing
15065	Sharetribe Go is Sharetribe's old source-available marketplace software, which was also available as a hosted SaaS product. Sharetribe Go is no longer actively maintained. Ruby · 14 years old	2,449	0	+1	+4	+52	-26	0	0.7x, slowing
15066	High-performance, Reliable, and Parallel APL APL · 14 years old	801	0	0	+2	+37	-26	0	0.6x, slowing
15067	A Julia package for probability distributions and associated functions. Julia · 13 years old	1,205	0	-1	+2	+44	-26	0	0.6x, slowing
15068	The Pyret language. JavaScript · 13 years old	1,131	0	0	+1	+22	-26	0	0.5x, slowing
15069	Node.js client library for the Auth0 platform. TypeScript · 13 years old	683	0	0	+1	+16	-26	0	0.4x, slowing
15070	:octocat: Unofficial github:buttons JavaScript · 13 years old	1,149	0	0	+1	+31	-26	0	0.5x, slowing
15071	Scala.js, the Scala to JavaScript compiler Scala · 13 years old	4,707	0	-2	-2	+71	-26	0	0.7x, slowing
15072	Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'the cloud' with 'my butt' JavaScript · 13 years old	1,501	0	+1	+1	+20	-26	0	0.4x, slowing
15073	Zero-cost, compile-time, type-safe dependency injection library. Scala · 13 years old	1,315	0	0	0	+15	-26	0	0.4x, slowing
15074	Clean-code version of the baseflight flight controller firmware C · 13 years old	2,739	0	-1	+2	+75	-26	0	0.7x, slowing
15075	BDD library for the pytest runner Python · 13 years old	1,473	0	+1	+5	+83	-26	0	0.8x, slowing
15076	Python interface to Graphviz graph drawing package Python · 13 years old	848	0	0	0	+31	-26	0	0.5x, slowing
15077	Open h.265 video codec implementation. C++ · 13 years old	1,930	0	+2	+8	+112	-26	0	0.8x, slowing
15078	Saml2 Authentication services for ASP.NET C# · 13 years old	1,010	0	0	+1	+20	-26	0	0.4x, slowing
15079	Quickly create responsive HTML emails that work on any device and client. Even Outlook. HTML · 13 years old	7,785	0	-1	-3	+45	-26	0	0.6x, slowing
15080	PDFsam, a desktop application to split, merge, mix, rotate PDF files and extract pages Java · 13 years old	4,658	+1	+5	+48	+650	-26	8	1.0x, steady
15081	Core Python Web Archiving Toolkit for replay and recording of web archives Python · 12 years old	1,719	+1	+4	+14	+163	-26	8	0.9x, slowing
15082	An intelligent database proxy. C++ · 12 years old	1,499	0	+1	+2	+47	-26	0	0.6x, slowing
15083	Official Python command-line client for tldr pages 🐍. Python · 12 years old	755	0	0	+3	+70	-26	0	0.7x, slowing
15084	:ocean: Digital timing diagram rendering engine JavaScript · 12 years old	3,514	0	0	+9	+262	-26	0	0.9x, slowing
15085	Got Your Back (GYB) is a command line tool for backing up your Gmail messages to your computer using Gmail's API over HTTPS. Python · 12 years old	3,145	+1	+3	+18	+257	-26	8	0.9x, slowing
15086	A simple "database" that use JSON file for Node.JS. TypeScript · 12 years old	830	0	+1	0	+12	-26	0	0.3x, slowing
15087	Libtpms-based TPM emulator with socket, character device, and Linux CUSE interface. C · 12 years old	831	+1	+2	+4	+122	-26	16	0.8x, slowing
15088	签到 JavaScript · 12 years old	3,420	-1	-5	-4	+27	-26	0	0.5x, slowing
15089	Docker image for PostGIS Dockerfile · 12 years old	1,603	0	0	+4	+102	-26	0	0.8x, slowing
15090	Swift minion for simple and lightweight XML parsing Swift · 12 years old	1,036	0	+1	+2	+4	-26	0	0.1x, slowing
15091	A pluggable API specification generator. Currently supports the OpenAPI Specification (f.k.a. the Swagger specification).. Python · 12 years old	1,222	0	0	+5	+18	-26	0	0.4x, slowing
15092	The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin Java · 12 years old	1,781	0	-1	+2	+37	-26	0	0.6x, slowing
15093	A curated list of awesome sheet music software, libraries and resources. 11 years old	1,041	0	0	+4	+118	-26	0	0.8x, slowing
15094	An extension of the Flexible Collision Library C++ · 11 years old	664	0	+5	+17	+167	-26	0	0.9x, slowing
15095	This PHP class uploads files and manipulates images very easily. It is in fact as much as an image processing class than it is an upload class. Compatible with PHP 4, 5, 7 and 8. Supports processing of local files, uploaded files, files sent through XMLHttpRequest. PHP · 11 years old	874	0	+1	+2	+14	-26	0	0.4x, slowing
15096	A slim, lean forum package designed for quick and easy integration in Laravel projects PHP · 11 years old	651	0	0	+1	+20	-26	0	0.4x, slowing
15097	A set of homebrew formulae to install virt-manager and virt-viewer on MAC OSX Ruby · 11 years old	1,110	0	0	+2	+40	-26	0	0.6x, slowing
15098	Rewrites source to reorder python imports Python · 11 years old	779	0	-1	0	+15	-26	0	0.4x, slowing
15099	Vim configuration for Rust. Vim Script · 11 years old	4,207	+1	+5	+17	+184	-26	8	0.9x, slowing
15100	The fast scanner generator for Java™ with full Unicode support Java · 11 years old	636	+1	+1	+2	+16	-26	8	0.4x, slowing

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