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 10 Nov 2026, 04:24 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. Some repositories are also left out, or kept in, by hand after a review of the daily lists, whatever the rules above say. 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	Momentum	Speed-up
21351	ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts Haskell · 13 years old	40,311	+8	+34	+175	+2,227	7	1.0x, steady
21352	The best terminal emulator based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries C · 13 years old	743	0	+1	+6	+45	0	1.0x, steady
21353	Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/tuxor1337/hidetopbar. Pull requests and issues on GitHub cannot be accepted and will be automatically closed. JavaScript · 13 years old	558	0	0	+1	+10	0	1.0x, steady
21354	Experimental fork of homebrew for PPC Macs on Tiger Ruby · 13 years old	671	+1	+1	+5	+69	0	1.0x, steady
21355	Slick Plugin for Play Scala · 13 years old	794	0	0	0	0	0	No data
21356	Emacs major and minor modes for Racket: edit, REPL, check-syntax, debug, profile, packages, and more. Emacs Lisp · 13 years old	723	0	0	+1	+25	0	1.0x, steady
21357	Keep passwords and other sensitive information out of your chat logs and inboxes. Ruby · 13 years old	2,988	0	+9	+33	+454	0	1.0x, steady
21358	it's like Rainmeter, but for CLI! Perl · 13 years old	1,209	0	0	+1	+22	0	1.0x, steady
21359	Scala combinator library for working with binary data Scala · 13 years old	817	0	0	+1	+9	0	1.0x, steady
21360	Manage job listings from the WordPress admin panel, and allow users to post jobs directly to your site. PHP · 13 years old	896	0	-1	-1	+9	0	1.0x, steady
21361	A swiss army knife for modding Bethesda games. Python · 13 years old	560	0	+3	+6	+48	0	1.0x, steady
21362	Okay, it's pretty easy to instantiate objects in Java through standard reflection. However there are many cases where you need to go beyond what reflection provides. For example, if there's no public constructor, you want to bypass the constructor code, or set final fields. There are numerous clever (but fiddly) approaches to getting around this and this library provides a simple way to get at them. You will find the official site here. Java · 13 years old	630	0	0	0	+17	0	1.0x, steady
21363	Jekyll-based static site for The Programming Historian HTML · 13 years old	556	0	+1	+4	+22	0	1.0x, steady
21364	🚀 Fast prime number generator C++ · 13 years old	1,127	0	0	+6	+94	0	1.0x, steady
21365	Streams Standard HTML · 13 years old	1,419	0	0	+1	+40	0	1.0x, steady
21366	The Ember.js command line utility. JavaScript · 13 years old	3,235	0	0	0	+15	0	1.0x, steady
21367	Client library for Amazon Kinesis Java · 13 years old	668	0	0	0	+18	0	1.0x, steady
21368	DELLY2: Structural variant discovery by integrated paired-end and split-read analysis C++ · 12 years old	541	0	+1	+4	+54	0	1.0x, steady
21369	Official Unity Plugin for the Google Mobile Ads SDK C# · 12 years old	1,554	+1	0	+2	+108	0	1.0x, steady
21370	Linux Kernel for Motorola devices using MSM-based chipset C · 12 years old	693	0	0	+2	+46	0	1.0x, steady
21371	django-watchman exposes a status endpoint for your backing services like databases, caches, etc. Python · 12 years old	546	0	0	0	+9	0	1.0x, steady
21372	High-performance browser-grade HTML5 parser Rust · 12 years old	2,656	0	0	+22	+275	0	1.0x, steady
21373	java port of Underscore.js Java · 12 years old	551	0	0	+1	+13	0	1.0x, steady
21374	Challenge yourself learning and understanding the most obscure and tricky parts of Javascript. http://tcorral.github.io/javascript-challenges-book/ JavaScript · 12 years old	817	0	+2	+2	+5	0	1.0x, steady
21375	Storytime is a Rails 4+ CMS and blogging engine, with a core focus on content. It is built and maintained by @cultivatelabs Ruby · 12 years old	743	0	0	0	0	0	No data
21376	sbt plugin for scoverage Scala · 12 years old	652	0	0	0	+9	0	1.0x, steady
21377	Markdown lint tool Ruby · 12 years old	2,084	0	+1	+1	+156	0	1.0x, steady
21378	OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media center distribution C · 12 years old	1,746	0	0	+5	+66	0	1.0x, steady
21379	Third-party login plugin for hapi JavaScript · 12 years old	615	0	0	0	+1	0	1.0x, steady
21380	A drop-in UITableView/UICollectionView superclass category for showing empty datasets whenever the view has no content to display Objective-C · 12 years old	11,992	-1	-1	+1	+36	0	1.0x, steady
21381	Facebook's React on Scala.JS Scala · 12 years old	1,662	0	0	+2	+20	0	1.0x, steady
21382	Yii2 Starter Kit PHP · 12 years old	1,396	0	+2	+2	+6	0	1.0x, steady
21383	Client library for collecting metrics. Java · 12 years old	768	0	0	0	+17	0	1.0x, steady
21384	JavaScript talks you have to see 👀 on functional programming, performance, frameworks, React, debugging, leveling up, and more! 12 years old	7,142	0	+3	+8	+65	0	1.0x, steady
21385	CLI for the surge.sh CDN JavaScript · 12 years old	3,077	+1	+4	+16	+124	0	1.0x, steady
21386	Gradle release & version management plugin. Groovy · 12 years old	643	0	0	+4	+45	0	1.0x, steady
21387	Google Auth Library for Ruby Ruby · 12 years old	516	+1	+1	+1	+25	0	1.0x, steady
21388	A simple static site generator written in Clojure HTML · 11 years old	1,132	0	0	0	+22	0	1.0x, steady
21389	Unify your EmberCLI and Rails Workflows Ruby · 11 years old	707	0	0	0	+1	0	1.0x, steady
21390	Simple drawings using vector graphics; Cairo "for tourists!" Julia · 11 years old	631	0	0	0	+25	0	1.0x, steady
21391	A cross-platform high performing HTTP(S) proxy server in C#. C# · 11 years old	2,016	0	0	+8	+65	0	1.0x, steady
21392	A macro to generate structures which behave like bitflags Rust · 11 years old	1,174	+3	+3	+11	+116	0	1.0x, steady
21393	Full git and GitHub integration with Sublime Text Python · 11 years old	1,943	+1	+3	+4	+26	0	1.0x, steady
21394	Parallel OS, with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter and more... Common Lisp · 11 years old	1,717	0	+2	+23	+66	0	1.0x, steady
21395	Turn your ES5 code into readable ES6. Lebab does the opposite of what Babel does. JavaScript · 11 years old	5,631	0	+1	+4	+31	0	1.0x, steady
21396	A permissively licensed C and C++ Task Scheduler for creating parallel programs. Requires C++11 support. C++ · 11 years old	2,050	0	+3	+10	+166	0	1.0x, steady
21397	Node.js IRC bridge for Matrix TypeScript · 11 years old	507	0	0	0	+28	0	1.0x, steady
21398	CollectionView做的两级菜单，可以折叠第二级菜单 Objective-C · 11 years old	1,531	0	0	+2	+5	0	1.0x, steady
21399	First boot installer and configuration tool Go · 11 years old	988	+1	+3	+12	+80	0	1.0x, steady
21400	DirectXMesh geometry processing library C++ · 11 years old	861	0	0	+2	+48	0	1.0x, steady

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