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, 10:20 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 ↑	Speed-up
20551	Simple Weechat-Relay Android Client Kotlin · 14 years old	566	+1	+3	+28	+1	1.0x, steady
20552	An advanced SAT solver C++ · 14 years old	944	+2	+6	+68	+1	1.0x, steady
20553	T.J. Watson Libraries for Analysis, with front ends for Java, Android, and JavaScript, and many common static program analyses. Java · 14 years old	883	+3	+11	+68	+1	1.0x, steady
20554	Enable drop-in Windows Single Sign On for popular Java web servers. Java · 14 years old	510	+1	+1	+21	+1	1.1x faster
20555	The Clojure Interactive Development Environment that Rocks for Emacs Emacs Lisp · 14 years old	3,678	0	+2	+90	+1	1.0x, steady
20556	A font! CSS · 14 years old	850	0	+1	+6	+1	1.2x faster
20557	PAC/Dnsmasq/Wingy file Generator, working with gfwlist, support custom rules. Python · 14 years old	2,177	0	-1	+25	+1	1.0x, steady
20558	Create behavioral experiments in a browser using JavaScript TypeScript · 14 years old	1,240	+2	+14	+113	+1	1.0x, steady
20559	Sublime Text plugin for EditorConfig - Helps developers maintain consistent coding styles between different editors Python · 14 years old	1,776	0	0	+13	+1	1.1x faster
20560	A cross-platform G-Code sender for GRBL, Smoothieware, TinyG and G2core. Java · 14 years old	2,284	+1	+17	+198	+1	1.0x, steady
20561	Make some beautiful corner plots Python · 14 years old	579	+1	+3	+33	+1	1.0x, steady
20562	Returns unicode slugs Python · 14 years old	1,630	0	+6	+82	+1	1.0x, steady
20563	The best terminal emulator based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries C · 13 years old	743	+1	+6	+46	+1	1.0x, steady
20564	Experimental fork of homebrew for PPC Macs on Tiger Ruby · 13 years old	671	+1	+5	+69	+1	1.0x, steady
20565	A customizable, multi-protocol BitTorrent Tracker Go · 13 years old	1,507	-2	0	+48	+1	1.0x, steady
20566	The Egison Programming Language Haskell · 13 years old	930	0	0	+16	+1	1.1x faster
20567	A powerful Pacman (Package Manager) front end using Qt libs C++ · 13 years old	878	+1	+4	+152	+1	1.0x, steady
20568	Hackers is an elegant iOS app for reading Hacker News written in Swift. Swift · 13 years old	768	0	+3	+48	+1	1.0x, steady
20569	FIFE is a multi-platform isometric game engine C++ · 13 years old	578	-3	-2	+17	+1	1.1x faster
20570	Gaffer is a node-based application for lookdev, lighting and automation Python · 13 years old	1,114	+2	+15	+84	+1	1.0x, steady
20571	Scala combinator library for working with binary data Scala · 13 years old	818	+1	+2	+10	+1	1.1x faster
20572	Ncurses SIP Messages flow viewer C · 13 years old	1,216	+1	+7	+108	+1	1.0x, steady
20573	mongoose-unique-validator is a plugin which adds pre-save validation for unique fields within a Mongoose schema. TypeScript · 13 years old	544	+1	+1	+2	+1	2.0x faster
20574	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	631	+1	+1	+18	+1	1.1x faster
20575	The Guardian’s image management system Scala · 13 years old	1,460	0	0	+17	+1	1.1x faster
20576	Collection of AspectJ Java Aspects to facilitate aspect-oriented programming patterns: logging, caching, validating, etc. Java · 13 years old	533	+1	+1	+7	+1	1.2x faster
20577	nwipe secure disk eraser C · 13 years old	1,249	+5	+17	+244	+1	1.0x, steady
20578	Gibbon is a flexible, open source school management platform designed to make life better for teachers, students, parents and leaders. PHP · 13 years old	638	0	+4	+84	+1	1.0x, steady
20579	Streams Standard HTML · 13 years old	1,420	+2	+2	+41	+1	1.0x, steady
20580	Web and mobile application security training platform Java · 13 years old	1,467	0	+8	+72	+1	1.0x, steady
20581	Apache OpenOffice C++ · 12 years old	1,265	+1	+11	+168	+1	1.0x, steady
20582	backup a github user or organization Python · 12 years old	1,604	+1	+16	+162	+1	1.0x, steady
20583	Comically fast Dota 2, CSGO, CS2 and Deadlock replay parser written in Java. Java · 12 years old	776	+1	+6	+67	+1	1.0x, steady
20584	WLA DX - Yet Another ANSI C GB-Z80/Z80/Z80N/eZ80/6502/65C02/65CE02/65816/68000/6800/6801/6809/8008/8080/HUC6280/SPC-700/SuperFX/Cx4/SH-2 Multi Platform Cross Assembler Package C · 12 years old	611	0	+2	+36	+1	1.0x, steady
20585	Bistro is a flexible distributed scheduler, a high-performance framework supporting multiple paradigms while retaining ease of configuration, management, and monitoring. C++ · 12 years old	1,026	-1	-1	+2	+1	2.0x faster
20586	django-watchman exposes a status endpoint for your backing services like databases, caches, etc. Python · 12 years old	547	+1	+1	+10	+1	1.1x faster
20587	This rocq library aims to formalize a substantial body of mathematics using the univalent point of view. Rocq Prover · 12 years old	1,022	0	+5	+38	+1	1.0x, steady
20588	java port of Underscore.js Java · 12 years old	552	+1	+2	+14	+1	1.1x faster
20589	Challenge yourself learning and understanding the most obscure and tricky parts of Javascript. http://tcorral.github.io/javascript-challenges-book/ JavaScript · 12 years old	818	+2	+3	+6	+1	1.2x faster
20590	Classic point and click adventure game engine and editor Java · 12 years old	647	-1	0	+27	+1	1.0x, steady
20591	Official repository for Concrete CMS development PHP · 12 years old	855	+1	+3	+45	+1	1.0x, steady
20592	No description Clojure · 12 years old	990	+4	+7	+53	+1	1.0x, steady
20593	Official Sketch Plugin directory Ruby · 12 years old	3,375	-1	-2	+16	+1	1.1x faster
20594	A drop-in UITableView/UICollectionView superclass category for showing empty datasets whenever the view has no content to display Objective-C · 12 years old	11,993	0	+2	+37	+1	1.0x, steady
20595	Business class content management for Node.js (plugins, server cluster management, data-driven pages) JavaScript · 12 years old	1,563	0	+1	+5	+1	1.3x faster
20596	Facebook's React on Scala.JS Scala · 12 years old	1,662	0	+2	+21	+1	1.1x faster
20597	Lightweight real-time big data streaming engine over Apache Pekko Scala · 12 years old	757	0	+2	+4	+1	1.3x faster
20598	Linode guides and tutorials. Python · 12 years old	1,393	0	+2	+23	+1	1.0x, steady
20599	dcm2nii DICOM to NIfTI converter: compiled versions available from NITRC C++ · 12 years old	1,210	0	+12	+166	+1	1.0x, steady
20600	Google Auth Library for Ruby Ruby · 12 years old	516	+1	+1	+25	+1	1.0x, steady

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