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 9 Nov 2026, 08:20 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	7d	30d	1y	Above pace ↓	Momentum	Speed-up
18051	Request Tracker, an enterprise-grade issue tracking system Perl · 17 years old	1,170	+3	+11	+111	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18052	An invitation strategy for devise Ruby · 16 years old	2,671	-2	-2	+17	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18053	pure-python ECDSA signature/verification and ECDH key agreement Python · 16 years old	975	+1	+3	+34	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18054	Affordable Industrial Grade Motion Control G-code · 16 years old	947	0	+3	+24	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18055	An open source flash player implementation C++ · 16 years old	1,913	+1	+10	+68	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18056	General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support Ruby · 15 years old	3,624	-1	-1	+5	-13	0	0.3x, slowing
18057	Heroku's classic buildpack for Node.js apps Shell · 15 years old	1,349	0	+2	+22	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18058	The fastest TypeScript animation engine on the web TypeScript · 15 years old	1,553	0	0	+7	-13	0	0.4x, slowing
18059	Zotonic - The Erlang Web Framework & CMS Erlang · 15 years old	850	0	+1	+15	-13	0	0.5x, slowing
18060	Jwt.Net, a JWT (JSON Web Token) implementation for .NET C# · 15 years old	2,186	0	+1	+40	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18061	Code and data for the openresty.org site HTML · 15 years old	1,280	-1	-1	+10	-13	0	0.4x, slowing
18062	All the Samples that work with MonoGame C# · 15 years old	831	-1	+6	+63	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18063	sbt Native Packager Scala · 14 years old	1,607	+1	+2	+7	-13	0	0.4x, slowing
18064	LDAP authentication module for nginx Python · 14 years old	759	0	+2	+9	-13	0	0.4x, slowing
18065	OAuth client integration for Symfony. Supports both OAuth1.0a and OAuth2. PHP · 14 years old	2,358	-1	+1	+50	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18066	Desktop customization tool for Windows C++ · 14 years old	6,136	+8	+70	+761	-13	0	1.0x, steady
18067	A Python wrapper for librtlsdr (a driver for Realtek RTL2832U based SDR's) Python · 14 years old	697	0	+2	+29	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18068	Nazara Engine is a cross-platform framework aimed at (but not limited to) real-time applications requiring audio, 2D and 3D real-time rendering, network and more. C++ · 14 years old	844	0	+1	+66	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18069	An elegant and modern git repository viewer PHP · 14 years old	2,949	+1	+1	+30	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18070	This C library provides a portable and simple API for accessing Allen-Bradley and Modbus PLC data over Ethernet. C · 14 years old	905	+1	+2	+98	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18071	Cutadapt removes adapter sequences from sequencing reads Python · 14 years old	592	0	+4	+32	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18072	A low-level integer compression library in Java Java · 14 years old	569	0	0	+11	-13	0	0.5x, slowing
18073	Rails-inspired generator system that provides scaffolding for your apps TypeScript · 14 years old	1,264	0	0	+27	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18074	🌐 jQuery based internationalization library JavaScript · 14 years old	738	+1	+2	+16	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18075	Upstream focused ADI Linux kernel tree (see README.md on ci branch) C · 14 years old	661	0	+5	+107	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18076	Get info from any web service or page PHP · 14 years old	2,140	+1	+2	+29	-13	8	0.7x, slowing
18077	Unconventional I/O library for Java Java · 13 years old	731	+2	+5	+33	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18078	userland threads C++ · 13 years old	512	0	+1	+22	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18079	Geographic add-ons for Django REST Framework. Maintained by the OpenWISP Project. Python · 13 years old	1,131	0	+1	+28	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18080	:elephant: Elasticsearch real-time search and analytics natively integrated with Hadoop Java · 13 years old	1,967	0	+2	+29	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18081	ICS/SCADA honeypot Python · 13 years old	1,540	+1	+9	+153	-13	8	0.9x, slowing
18082	RSpec for Sidekiq Ruby · 13 years old	677	0	0	+8	-13	0	0.4x, slowing
18083	Building a RESTful Web Service :: Learn how to create a RESTful web service with Spring. Java · 13 years old	1,484	+2	+6	+51	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18084	Websites change. Perma Links don't. Python · 13 years old	539	+1	+5	+57	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18085	Simple C PDF Writer/Generation library C · 13 years old	636	0	+1	+64	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18086	Library to build PHP extensions with C++ C++ · 13 years old	1,449	-1	-1	+15	-13	0	0.5x, slowing
18087	Vim 中文文档计划 C · 13 years old	2,166	+2	+6	+117	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18088	Firedrake is an automated system for the portable solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method (FEM) Python · 13 years old	682	+1	+5	+83	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18089	Python library for Junos automation Python · 13 years old	715	-2	-1	+21	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18090	Crossbar.io - WAMP application router Python · 13 years old	2,060	-1	-1	+12	-13	0	0.5x, slowing
18091	A command line tool to manipulate tags on Mac OS X files, and to query for files with those tags. Objective-C · 13 years old	1,573	0	+2	+60	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18092	Web IDL Standard HTML · 13 years old	510	+3	+6	+50	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18093	Docker base images for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor web apps Shell · 12 years old	2,818	+1	+2	+27	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18094	Functional JDBC layer for Scala. Scala · 12 years old	2,226	0	+3	+39	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18095	📝 Generating, validating and processing secure forms in PHP. Handy API, fully customizable, server & client side validation and mature design. PHP · 12 years old	530	0	0	+14	-13	0	0.5x, slowing
18096	An interactive data visualization tool which brings matplotlib graphics to the browser using D3. Jupyter Notebook · 12 years old	2,412	0	+1	+34	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18097	cubic-bezier implementation for your JavaScript animation easings – MIT License JavaScript · 12 years old	1,781	0	+3	+23	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18098	Package manager for the Erlang ecosystem. Elixir · 12 years old	1,088	0	0	+59	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18099	An open-source HEVC encoder C · 12 years old	971	+2	+5	+68	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18100	A modern iOS toast view that can fit your notification needs Objective-C · 12 years old	4,112	-2	-7	-4	-13	0	-0.4x, slowing

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