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, 14:20 UTC.

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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
19751	Pure Ruby implementation of an SSH (protocol 2) client Ruby · 17 years old	1,024	0	0	0	+23	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19752	PKGBUILDs modified to build on Arch Linux ARM Shell · 17 years old	1,046	0	0	+3	+33	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19753	A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL PHP · 17 years old	1,679	0	+2	+4	+37	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19754	Import OpenStreetMap data into a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database C++ · 16 years old	1,688	0	0	+2	+96	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19755	The Official PHP MongoDB ORM/ODM PHP · 16 years old	1,098	0	0	+1	+9	-6	0	0.6x, slowing
19756	The NASA Ames Stereo Pipeline is a suite of automated geodesy & stereogrammetry tools designed for processing planetary imagery captured from orbiting and landed robotic explorers on other planets. C++ · 16 years old	626	0	0	+7	+67	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19757	Pyro is an experienced and powerful Laravel PHP CMS. PHP · 16 years old	3,175	0	+1	+3	+20	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19758	High performance memcached client for Ruby Ruby · 16 years old	3,113	0	-1	0	+20	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19759	The oEmbed Spec PHP · 16 years old	1,458	0	+2	+6	+68	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19760	Apache Cassandra® Cluster Manager (CCM) – easily create and destroy clusters on localhost Python · 15 years old	1,235	0	0	0	+13	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
19761	Open Dylan compiler and IDE Dylan · 15 years old	503	0	0	+1	+25	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19762	MongoDB session store for Express TypeScript · 15 years old	1,969	0	0	0	+12	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
19763	A node.js package for Steven Levithan's excellent dateFormat() function. JavaScript · 15 years old	1,290	0	0	0	+4	-6	0	0.4x, slowing
19764	Splunk Software Development Kit for Python Python · 15 years old	747	0	0	+2	+32	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19765	Heroku's classic buildpack for Python apps Ruby · 15 years old	993	0	0	0	+10	-6	0	0.6x, slowing
19766	Open source smart card tools and middleware. PKCS#11/MiniDriver C · 15 years old	3,126	+1	+2	+22	+290	-6	8	1.0x, steady
19767	jQuery UI-powered auto-complete fields for ForeignKey, ManyToMany and text fields Python · 15 years old	819	0	0	-1	+1	-6	0	0.1x, slowing
19768	JavaScript YAML parser and dumper. Very fast. TypeScript · 15 years old	6,640	0	-2	+7	+200	-6	0	1.0x, steady
19769	A suite of Monitoring Plugins (formerly known as nagios-plugins) C · 15 years old	515	0	0	0	+18	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19770	Ultra-fast PHP MVC framework built as a C extension C · 14 years old	4,509	0	-1	+4	+26	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19771	A high performance, concurrent http client library for python with gevent Python · 14 years old	565	0	0	+2	+7	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
19772	Official repository of the bootstrap_form gem, a Rails form builder that makes it super easy to create beautiful-looking forms using Bootstrap 5. Ruby · 14 years old	1,637	0	0	0	+10	-6	0	0.6x, slowing
19773	Open scientific N-dimensional image processing :microscope: :sparkler: Java · 14 years old	1,417	0	0	+10	+123	-6	0	1.0x, steady
19774	werkzeug + twisted.web Python · 14 years old	841	0	-1	+2	+7	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
19775	Yii PHP Framework 1.1.x PHP · 14 years old	4,821	0	-1	-1	+24	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19776	Simplifies building hypermedia-driven REST web services on top of Spring Data repositories Java · 14 years old	957	0	0	0	+25	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19777	Useful localization tools with Python API for building localization & translation systems Python · 14 years old	984	0	+1	+4	+71	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19778	Buildout is a deployment automation tool written in and extended with Python Python · 14 years old	618	0	0	0	+22	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19779	ngx_mruby - A Fast and Memory-Efficient Web Server Extension Mechanism Using Scripting Language mruby for nginx C · 14 years old	997	0	0	0	+6	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
19780	Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing Python · 14 years old	3,023	0	+1	+5	+167	-6	0	1.0x, steady
19781	Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk C · 14 years old	1,715	+1	+2	+11	+167	-6	8	1.0x, steady
19782	Natural node.js and npm version manager for windows. JavaScript · 14 years old	1,732	0	+1	+2	+74	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19783	LuaUnit is a popular unit-testing framework for Lua, with an interface typical of xUnit libraries (Python unittest, Junit, NUnit, ...). It supports several output formats (Text, TAP, JUnit, ...) to be used directly or work with Continuous Integration platforms (Jenkins, Maven, ...). Lua · 14 years old	641	0	+3	+5	+37	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19784	Themes, scales, and geoms for ggplot2 that reproduce the styles of The Economist, the WSJ, Tufte, and others R · 14 years old	1,354	0	0	+2	+22	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19785	Read-only mirror of R source code from https://svn.r-project.org/R/, updated hourly. See the build instructions on the wiki page. R · 14 years old	1,257	0	+1	+7	+65	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19786	A tool for automated deployment of web applications to an FTP server. PHP · 14 years old	618	0	0	0	+8	-6	0	0.6x, slowing
19787	📱 The easiest way to write conditional CSS and/or JavaScript based on device operating system (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows, Firefox OS, MeeGo), orientation (Portrait vs. Landscape), and type (Tablet vs. Mobile). TypeScript · 14 years old	3,919	0	0	+1	+13	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
19788	Proxy and API designed mainly to teleport players between multiple Minecraft servers. Java · 14 years old	1,736	0	-2	+6	+100	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19789	Resource efficient UPnP/DLNA renderer, optimal for Raspberry Pi, CuBox or a general MediaServer. Fork of GMediaRenderer to add some features to make it usable. C · 14 years old	940	0	0	+1	+52	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19790	Generic Salt Bootstrap Script Shell · 13 years old	952	0	+1	+2	+15	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
19791	Phonon code Python · 13 years old	506	0	+1	+3	+75	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19792	A fast and sensitive gapped read aligner C++ · 13 years old	814	0	+1	+4	+71	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19793	PyFR Python · 13 years old	584	+2	+3	+6	+69	-6	16	0.9x, slowing
19794	Easy and efficient audio synthesis in C++ C++ · 13 years old	561	0	+1	+3	+22	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19795	FSharp source code formatter F# · 13 years old	837	0	+2	+2	+40	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19796	The official Xilinx u-boot repository C · 13 years old	688	0	0	+2	+52	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19797	Apache Tez Java · 13 years old	522	0	0	+2	+22	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
19798	A jQuery plugin to select multiple elements with checkboxes :) Vue · 13 years old	1,908	0	0	0	+10	-6	0	0.6x, slowing
19799	Free and Open Source API and drivers for immersive technology. C · 13 years old	1,289	0	-1	+3	+37	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
19800	Framework-agnostic PHP package for generating sitemaps in XML, TXT, HTML, and Google News formats. PHP · 13 years old	1,341	0	+1	+2	+26	-6	0	0.8x, slowing

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