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. Star counts come from GitHub. Last updated 11 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. 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	7d	30d	1y	Above pace ↑	Momentum	Speed-up
20351	:book: A creative-commons book on Backbone.js for beginners and advanced users alike Rich Text Format · 14 years old	9,173	+2	+4	+20	+2	0	1.1x faster
20352	🍻 Default casks (upstream binary packages) for the package manager for everywhere Ruby · 14 years old	22,288	+7	+61	+864	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20353	OpenKeychain is an OpenPGP implementation for Android. Java · 14 years old	2,634	+1	+15	+223	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20354	Socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols. Erlang · 14 years old	1,246	0	+2	+38	+2	0	1.1x faster
20355	Haskell API search engine Haskell · 14 years old	805	0	+3	+39	+2	0	1.1x faster
20356	Official vibe.d development D · 14 years old	1,225	-1	+6	+47	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20357	Mirror of FreeIPA, an integrated security information management solution Python · 14 years old	1,300	+1	+8	+158	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20358	A cross-platform G-Code sender for GRBL, Smoothieware, TinyG and G2core. Java · 14 years old	2,284	+1	+17	+198	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20359	github pull requests builder plugin for Jenkins Java · 14 years old	514	0	+2	+8	+2	0	1.3x faster
20360	The Wyvern programming language. Java · 14 years old	567	0	+1	+9	+2	0	1.3x faster
20361	A Python command-line and library that draws basic graphs in the terminal Python · 14 years old	3,302	-1	+6	+100	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20362	Vaadin 6, 7, 8 is a Java framework for modern Java web applications. Java · 14 years old	1,813	0	+2	+29	+2	0	1.1x faster
20363	Package and repository sources for ZFS on Arch Linux Shell · 13 years old	510	0	+2	+50	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20364	Bypass ad counter if possible. JavaScript · 13 years old	1,784	+4	+8	+159	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20365	Tinker a little, build a little, tinker a little more... Java · 13 years old	1,414	+2	+7	+107	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20366	LGOGDownloader is unofficial downloader to GOG.com for Linux users. It uses the same API as the official GOG Galaxy. C++ · 13 years old	926	+1	+10	+116	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20367	Graph library for Clojure Clojure · 13 years old	892	0	+1	+9	+2	0	1.3x faster
20368	No description Assembly · 13 years old	1,262	+4	+15	+194	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20369	A pure Javascript ZooKeeper client for Node.js JavaScript · 13 years old	542	+1	+1	+4	+2	0	2.0x faster
20370	An example application that captures prominent and ugly functionality found on the web. Perfect for writing automated acceptance tests against. CSS · 13 years old	918	+1	+7	+77	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20371	Sensitivity Analysis Library in Python. Contains Sobol, Morris, FAST, and other methods. Python · 13 years old	1,026	+1	+10	+82	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20372	JASP aims to be a complete statistical package for both Bayesian and Frequentist statistical methods, that is easy to use and familiar to users of SPSS C++ · 13 years old	1,018	+2	+13	+132	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20373	Highly comparative time-series analysis MATLAB · 13 years old	865	+1	+4	+71	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20374	Apache Cordova File Plugin JavaScript · 13 years old	743	0	+1	+6	+2	0	1.5x faster
20375	libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA (Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha) subtitle format. C · 13 years old	1,192	+1	+10	+132	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20376	HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, Websocket client (and more) for Erlang/OTP. Erlang · 13 years old	949	0	+1	+30	+2	0	1.1x faster
20377	Explorer++ is a lightweight and fast file manager for Windows C++ · 13 years old	3,342	+5	+37	+464	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20378	The Typeahead plugin from Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready to use with Bootstrap 3 and Bootstrap 4 JavaScript · 13 years old	1,668	0	0	+2	+2	0	Up from 0
20379	Jekyll-based static site for The Programming Historian HTML · 13 years old	557	+2	+5	+23	+2	0	1.1x faster
20380	🚀 Fast prime number generator C++ · 13 years old	1,128	+1	+4	+95	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20381	Virto's Commerce Innovation Platform. Source-available, modular .NET commerce backend built on Virto Atomic Architecture™. C# · 13 years old	1,315	-1	+2	+56	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20382	Research prototype tool for modular formal verification of C, Rust and Java programs Rust · 12 years old	530	+2	+12	+88	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20383	Official Unity Plugin for the Google Mobile Ads SDK C# · 12 years old	1,555	+1	+3	+109	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20384	Free Elasticsearch security plugin and Kibana security plugin: super-easy Kibana multi-tenancy, Encryption, Authentication, Authorization, Auditing Scala · 12 years old	959	+1	+1	+8	+2	0	1.3x faster
20385	DeaDBeeF Player C · 12 years old	1,989	0	+15	+194	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20386	Rapyd Admin is an open-source admin panel for Laravel — a light alternative to Nova, Filament and Backpack PHP · 12 years old	863	0	+1	+3	+2	0	3.0x faster
20387	Configuration management tool inspired by Chef, but simpler and lightweight. Formerly known as Lightchef. Ruby · 12 years old	1,136	+1	+2	+19	+2	0	1.1x faster
20388	Repository for Programming Assignment 2 for R Programming on Coursera R · 12 years old	896	+2	+3	+37	+2	0	1.1x faster
20389	Official ECMAScript Conformance Test Suite JavaScript · 12 years old	2,845	+3	+18	+249	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20390	Efficient execution and functional composition of database calls using jdbc and RxJava Observables Java · 12 years old	801	0	0	+5	+2	0	1.7x faster
20391	A jq playground built with Next.js TypeScript · 12 years old	857	+1	+7	+59	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20392	Streaming torrent client for Node.js with web ui. JavaScript · 12 years old	1,312	0	-1	+14	+2	0	1.2x faster
20393	An open source computer cloning & management system PHP · 12 years old	1,699	+5	+22	+294	+2	8	1.0x, steady
20394	Geocode addresses to coordinates PHP · 12 years old	848	+1	+2	+41	+2	0	1.1x faster
20395	A simple PHP package for sending messages to Slack, with a focus on ease of use and elegant syntax. PHP · 12 years old	1,160	+2	+2	+4	+2	0	2.0x faster
20396	OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media center distribution C · 12 years old	1,747	+1	+6	+67	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20397	Xilinx Embedded Software (embeddedsw) Development HTML · 12 years old	1,242	+1	+3	+156	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20398	Fast ISO8601 date time parser for Python written in C Python · 12 years old	578	+1	+1	+9	+2	0	1.3x faster
20399	Consul cross-DC KV replication daemon. Go · 12 years old	525	0	0	+8	+2	0	1.3x faster
20400	ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform Ruby · 12 years old	1,402	+2	+1	+40	+2	0	1.1x faster

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