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, 09:20 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
18301	High performance, full-stack PHP framework delivered as a C extension. PHP · 14 years old	10,818	-2	+3	+100	-12	0	0.9x, slowing
18302	Content management platform to build modern business applications Java · 14 years old	709	0	+1	+38	-12	0	0.8x, slowing
18303	Core part of Jackson that defines Streaming API as well as basic shared abstractions Java · 14 years old	2,378	-1	-1	+69	-12	0	0.9x, slowing
18304	jOOR - Fluent Reflection in Java jOOR is a very simple fluent API that gives access to your Java Class structures in a more intuitive way. The JDK's reflection APIs are hard and verbose to use. Other languages have much simpler constructs to access type meta information at runtime. Let us make Java reflection better. Java · 14 years old	2,824	-1	+1	+24	-12	0	0.7x, slowing
18305	A web clone of the card game Cards Against Humanity. Java · 14 years old	1,280	0	+1	+26	-12	0	0.7x, slowing
18306	Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services. Ruby · 14 years old	2,081	0	+2	+27	-12	0	0.7x, slowing
18307	Easy access to gitignore boilerplates Go · 14 years old	2,084	0	+2	+67	-12	0	0.9x, slowing
18308	Eclipse Groovy Development Tools Java · 14 years old	680	0	0	+10	-12	0	0.5x, slowing
18309	Thin assertion library for use in libraries and business-model PHP · 14 years old	2,426	0	+1	+25	-12	0	0.7x, slowing
18310	VexCL is a C++ vector expression template library for OpenCL/CUDA/OpenMP C++ · 14 years old	722	0	0	+8	-12	0	0.4x, slowing
18311	HTML reports for Cucumber Java · 14 years old	567	0	0	+7	-12	0	0.4x, slowing
18312	Object-oriented, fully tested PHP IMAP library PHP · 14 years old	920	0	+1	+20	-12	0	0.6x, slowing
18313	Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences. Ruby · 14 years old	930	0	+3	+30	-12	0	0.7x, slowing
18314	A development tool to help migrate away from APIs and features that have been or will be removed from jQuery core JavaScript · 14 years old	2,092	0	0	+41	-12	0	0.8x, slowing
18315	Reorganize tables in PostgreSQL databases with minimal locks C · 13 years old	2,326	+3	+13	+224	-12	0	0.9x, slowing
18316	Stable Haskell package sets: vetted consistent packages from Hackage Dockerfile · 13 years old	550	0	0	+9	-12	0	0.4x, slowing
18317	Hawtio web console helps you manage your JVM stuff and stay cool! Java · 13 years old	1,465	0	+1	+26	-12	0	0.7x, slowing
18318	Concurrent networking library for Python Python · 13 years old	1,274	0	0	+22	-12	0	0.6x, slowing
18319	Articles for NSHipster.com 13 years old	1,224	0	+1	+8	-12	0	0.4x, slowing
18320	Flexible Scala code linting tool Scala · 13 years old	1,103	0	0	+12	-12	0	0.5x, slowing
18321	Doujinshi downloader 绅士漫画下载 Python · 13 years old	806	-1	+1	+46	-12	0	0.8x, slowing
18322	New FFI-based API for lua-nginx-module Lua · 13 years old	855	0	0	+24	-12	0	0.7x, slowing
18323	Nodogsplash offers a simple way to provide restricted access to an Internet connection using a captive portal. Pull requests are welcome! C · 13 years old	967	+2	+8	+63	-12	0	0.8x, slowing
18324	Free web-application vulnerability and version scanner Python · 13 years old	574	-1	0	+4	-12	0	0.3x, slowing
18325	Systems Password Manager PHP · 13 years old	995	+1	+2	+17	-12	0	0.6x, slowing
18326	The httplib2 caching algorithms packaged up for use with requests. Python · 13 years old	505	0	0	+14	-12	0	0.5x, slowing
18327	Extracts emails and attachments saved in Microsoft Outlook's .msg files Python · 13 years old	857	+1	+6	+56	-12	0	0.8x, slowing
18328	Compiler from OCaml to Javascript. OCaml · 13 years old	1,139	0	+4	+89	-12	0	0.9x, slowing
18329	WebSocket support for the ngx_lua module (and OpenResty) Lua · 13 years old	524	0	0	+5	-12	0	0.3x, slowing
18330	Fast and small flat file CMS (5 files). Built with PHP, JSON database. PHP · 12 years old	744	+3	+5	+48	-12	0	0.8x, slowing
18331	Watch a Sphinx directory and rebuild the documentation when a change is detected. Also includes a hot-reload web server. Python · 12 years old	612	+1	+1	+31	-12	0	0.7x, slowing
18332	Miranda NG: Next Generation of Miranda IM C++ · 12 years old	570	0	+2	+41	-12	0	0.8x, slowing
18333	Python library for reading audio file metadata Python · 12 years old	845	+2	+4	+71	-12	0	0.9x, slowing
18334	Exercism exercises in Haskell. Haskell · 12 years old	531	0	+1	+16	-12	0	0.6x, slowing
18335	Kinematics and Dynamics for Robotics C++ · 12 years old	617	+1	+1	+31	-12	0	0.7x, slowing
18336	[READ ONLY] Modern PHP user login and management framework PHP · 12 years old	1,667	0	+1	+21	-12	0	0.6x, slowing
18337	A media packaging and development framework for VOD and Live DASH and HLS applications, supporting Common Encryption for Widevine and other DRM Systems. C++ · 12 years old	2,656	+3	+29	+345	-12	0	1.0x, steady
18338	An amazing and convenient Android image slider. Java · 12 years old	5,576	0	+1	+10	-12	0	0.5x, slowing
18339	Apache Phoenix Java · 12 years old	1,055	0	+1	+16	-12	0	0.6x, slowing
18340	Docker Official Image packaging for EA builds of OpenJDK from Oracle Dockerfile · 12 years old	1,167	0	0	+12	-12	0	0.5x, slowing
18341	Python API for TIDAL music streaming service Python · 12 years old	569	+2	+7	+81	-12	0	0.9x, slowing
18342	View and edit guitar tablature. C++ · 12 years old	641	+2	+8	+50	-12	8	0.8x, slowing
18343	Algorithm and data structure articles for https://cp-algorithms.com (based on http://e-maxx.ru) C++ · 12 years old	11,504	+11	+232	+1,984	-12	0	1.0x, steady
18344	MQTT 5.0 client library for iOS and macOS written in Swift Swift · 12 years old	1,754	+2	+2	+82	-12	0	0.9x, slowing
18345	Das Programm MediathekView durchsucht die Online-Mediatheken verschiedener Sender Kotlin · 12 years old	1,023	+2	+5	+75	-12	0	0.9x, slowing
18346	Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) Docker image Shell · 12 years old	2,165	0	+2	+13	-12	0	0.5x, slowing
18347	Plan 9 from User Space C · 12 years old	1,971	0	+9	+182	-12	0	0.9x, slowing
18348	ADempiere Business Suite ERP/CRM/MFG/SCM/POS done the Bazaar way in an open and unabated fashion. Focus is on the Community that includes Subject Matter Specialists, Implementors and End-Users. Java · 11 years old	889	-1	+1	+39	-12	0	0.8x, slowing
18349	Configuration library for Ruby gems and applications Ruby · 11 years old	925	+1	+10	+71	-12	8	0.9x, slowing
18350	Muffin is a fast, simple and asyncronous web-framework for Python 3 Python · 11 years old	692	0	0	+8	-12	0	0.4x, slowing

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