GitHub repositories taking off in the last 90 days

Ranked by how many more stars each repo got in the last 90 days than its pace over the 90 days before would predict, lowest first. Star counts come from GitHub. Last updated 11 Nov 2026, 15:20 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. 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	90d	Momentum	Speed-up
22351	Django test runner using nose Python · 17 years old	882	0	0	0	0	0	No data
22352	Simple Python style checker in one Python file Python · 17 years old	5,166	0	+2	+7	+18	0	1.0x, steady
22353	FilterIterator implementation that filters files based on a list of suffixes, prefixes, and other exclusion criteria. PHP · 17 years old	7,477	0	+1	+4	+11	0	1.0x, steady
22354	A fresh approach to string manipulation in R R · 17 years old	672	0	+2	+1	+8	0	1.0x, steady
22355	My configuration files (.screenrc, .vimrc, .weechat, .bashrc, .gitconfig, etc) Shell · 16 years old	538	0	0	0	0	0	No data
22356	A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js JavaScript · 16 years old	21,751	+1	+5	+47	+122	8	1.0x, steady
22357	A Scala DSL for talking with databases with minimum verbosity and maximum type safety Scala · 16 years old	588	0	0	0	0	0	No data
22358	Small and easy PHP library for sending messages to Twitter and receiving statuses. PHP · 16 years old	538	0	+1	+2	+2	0	1.0x, steady
22359	🔑 A Ruby wrapper for OAuth 1.0, and 1.0a protocols; clients & servers Ruby · 16 years old	669	0	0	0	0	0	No data
22360	The NASA Vision Workbench is a general purpose image processing and computer vision library developed by the Autonomous Systems and Robotics (ASR) Area in the Intelligent Systems Division at the NASA Ames Research Center. C++ · 16 years old	504	0	0	+1	+2	0	1.0x, steady
22361	Unfinished projects and snippets Hack · 16 years old	529	0	0	0	+2	0	1.0x, steady
22362	Test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript. JavaScript · 16 years old	9,753	0	+2	+4	+14	0	1.0x, steady
22363	Apple property list parser/builder for Node.js and browsers — supports XML, binary (bplist), and OpenStep formats TypeScript · 16 years old	606	0	+1	+1	+5	0	1.0x, steady
22364	C library for reading virtual slide images C · 16 years old	521	+1	+3	+4	+11	8	1.0x, steady
22365	a command line tool to apply templates defined on GitHub Scala · 16 years old	1,750	0	0	0	+1	0	1.0x, steady
22366	A Parser for CSS Files written in PHP. Allows extraction of CSS files into a data structure, manipulation of said structure and output as (optimized) CSS PHP · 16 years old	1,825	0	0	0	+7	0	1.0x, steady
22367	Tracking dirty fields on a Django model Python · 16 years old	655	0	+1	+1	+2	0	1.0x, steady
22368	Get your data in RAM. Get compute close to data. Enjoy the performance. Lua · 16 years old	3,685	0	+2	+18	+35	0	1.0x, steady
22369	RabbitMQ Java client Java · 16 years old	1,316	0	0	+3	+7	0	1.0x, steady
22370	Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs. PHP · 16 years old	12,280	0	+4	+14	+45	0	1.0x, steady
22371	Arduino library for SSD1306 monochrome 128x64 and 128x32 OLEDs C++ · 16 years old	2,124	0	+2	+14	+31	0	1.0x, steady
22372	Development repository for the rvm cookbook Ruby · 16 years old	512	0	0	0	0	0	No data
22373	Repository contains pgRouting library. Development branch is "develop", stable branch is "master" C++ · 16 years old	1,447	0	0	+9	+28	0	1.0x, steady
22374	Gibbon is an API wrapper for MailChimp's API Ruby · 15 years old	1,065	0	0	0	+2	0	1.0x, steady
22375	Full control of form rendering in the templates. Python · 15 years old	834	0	0	0	0	0	No data
22376	Swank backend for Node.JS and in-browser JavaScript JavaScript · 15 years old	643	0	+1	+1	+1	0	1.0x, steady
22377	Nginx upstream module for the Redis 2.0 protocol C · 15 years old	902	0	0	0	0	0	No data
22378	Hamcrest for Objective-C: Powerful, combinable, extensible matchers for verification Objective-C · 15 years old	709	0	0	0	0	0	No data
22379	Hamcrest matchers for Python Python · 15 years old	807	0	+2	+2	+3	0	1.0x, steady
22380	FUSE bindings for Go Go · 15 years old	2,394	0	+4	+13	+44	0	1.0x, steady
22381	Tvheadend is the leading TV streaming server for Linux with ATSC, DVB-C/C2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2, IPTV, SAT>IP and unix pipe input sources C · 15 years old	3,582	+2	+8	+39	+85	32	1.0x, steady
22382	A more helpful way to view differences between complex data structures in RSpec. Ruby · 15 years old	1,048	0	0	+1	+2	0	1.0x, steady
22383	CSS3 syntax (and syntax defined in some foreign specifications) support for Vim's built-in syntax/css.vim CSS · 15 years old	529	0	0	0	0	0	No data
22384	Java Abstracted Foreign Function Layer Java · 15 years old	1,326	0	-1	0	+5	0	1.0x, steady
22385	Sends your logs to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services PHP · 15 years old	21,402	0	-1	+11	+44	0	1.0x, steady
22386	Go XMPP Library (From Yasuhiro Matsumoto and based on the code from Russ Cox) Go · 15 years old	556	0	+1	+1	+3	0	1.0x, steady
22387	Red is a next-generation programming language strongly inspired by Rebol, but with a broader field of usage thanks to its native-code compiler, from system programming to high-level scripting and cross-platform reactive GUI, while providing modern support for concurrency, all in a zero-install, zero-config, single ~1MB file! Red · 15 years old	6,071	0	+1	+19	+48	0	1.0x, steady
22388	Test Anything Protocol tools for node JavaScript · 15 years old	2,427	0	+2	+1	+7	0	1.0x, steady
22389	Virtual environment for Node.js & integrator with virtualenv Python · 15 years old	1,796	0	+2	+4	+9	0	1.0x, steady
22390	An MVC framework for WordPress PHP · 15 years old	623	0	0	0	0	0	No data
22391	an R package for structural equation modeling and more R · 15 years old	516	0	+2	+1	+8	0	1.0x, steady
22392	Heroku's classic buildpack for PHP apps Shell · 15 years old	816	0	+1	+1	+2	0	1.0x, steady
22393	MVEL (MVFLEX Expression Language) Java · 15 years old	1,206	0	0	+3	+5	0	1.0x, steady
22394	Heroku's classic buildpack for Node.js apps Shell · 15 years old	1,349	0	0	+2	+5	0	1.0x, steady
22395	lighttpd2 on github for easier collaboration - main repo still on lighttpd.net C · 15 years old	513	0	0	+2	+5	0	1.0x, steady
22396	Go package implementing Bloom filters, used by many important systems Go · 15 years old	2,836	0	+3	+25	+38	0	1.0x, steady
22397	computer vision, image processing and machine learning on the web browser or node. JavaScript · 15 years old	506	0	+2	+2	+2	0	1.0x, steady
22398	The Corosync Cluster Engine C · 15 years old	1,225	0	0	+5	+13	0	1.0x, steady
22399	Light Node.js module that compress javascript, css and html files TypeScript · 15 years old	521	0	+1	+1	+2	0	1.0x, steady
22400	Pipeline is an asset packaging library for Django. Python · 15 years old	1,539	0	+1	+2	+2	0	1.0x, steady

Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day. 1 more tracked repositories are still loading their star history and will join the ranking once it is complete.