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, 11:20 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	1y	Momentum	Speed-up
20801	The Web Audio API v1.1, developed by the W3C Audio WG Bikeshed · 13 years old	1,136	0	0	+2	+48	0	1.0x, steady
20802	A library for implementing authentication/authorization in Ember.js applications. JavaScript · 13 years old	1,903	0	0	0	+3	0	1.0x, steady
20803	Auth0 headless browser sdk JavaScript · 13 years old	1,065	0	+1	+4	+46	0	1.0x, steady
20804	Reads an audio file and displays the waveform Swift · 13 years old	1,308	0	+2	+3	+37	0	1.0x, steady
20805	Gruvbox is a retro groove color scheme for Emacs. Port of the Vim version. Emacs Lisp · 13 years old	689	0	+8	+8	+52	0	1.0x, steady
20806	The Ember.js command line utility. JavaScript · 13 years old	3,235	0	0	0	+15	0	1.0x, steady
20807	Linux Kernel for Motorola devices using MSM-based chipset C · 12 years old	693	0	0	+1	+46	0	1.0x, steady
20808	The Agda standard library Agda · 12 years old	681	0	+1	+4	+56	0	1.0x, steady
20809	SLStudio - Real Time Structured Light. A comprehensive software framework for capturing and reconstructing 3D scenes with a camera-projector pair. C++ · 12 years old	614	0	+1	+8	+47	8	1.0x, steady
20810	because i'm tired of gists Python · 12 years old	2,164	0	+2	+4	+50	0	1.0x, steady
20811	Engintron for cPanel/WHM is the easiest way to integrate Nginx on your cPanel/WHM server. Engintron will improve the performance & web serving capacity of your server, while reducing CPU/RAM load at the same time, by installing & configuring the popular Nginx webserver to act as a reverse caching proxy in front of Apache. Perl · 12 years old	675	0	0	+1	+10	0	1.0x, steady
20812	A procedural terrain generation engine for use with the Three.js 3D graphics library for the web. JavaScript · 12 years old	920	0	+1	+10	+108	0	1.0x, steady
20813	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
20814	Digital timing diagram editor JavaScript · 12 years old	1,122	+1	+1	+8	+96	8	1.0x, steady
20815	libr3 is a high-performance path dispatching library. It compiles your route paths into a prefix tree (trie). By using the constructed prefix trie in the start-up time, you may dispatch your routes with efficiency C · 12 years old	822	0	+1	+3	+10	0	1.0x, steady
20816	SourceMod - Source Engine Scripting and Administration C++ · 12 years old	1,157	0	+2	+10	+101	0	1.0x, steady
20817	Markdown lint tool Ruby · 12 years old	2,084	0	0	+1	+155	0	1.0x, steady
20818	Third-party login plugin for hapi JavaScript · 12 years old	615	0	0	0	+1	0	1.0x, steady
20819	GeoWave provides geospatial and temporal indexing on top of Accumulo, HBase, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, RocksDB, and the filesystem. Java · 12 years old	528	0	+1	+1	+14	0	1.0x, steady
20820	Yii2 Starter Kit PHP · 12 years old	1,396	0	+1	+2	+6	0	1.0x, steady
20821	GitHub Enterprise Backup Utilities 12 years old	1,274	0	+2	+2	+53	0	1.0x, steady
20822	A platform for anime addicts. Go · 12 years old	786	0	+2	+3	+46	0	1.0x, steady
20823	CLI for the surge.sh CDN JavaScript · 12 years old	3,077	0	+4	+14	+123	0	1.0x, steady
20824	A curated list of amazingly awesome CakePHP plugins, resources and shiny things. 12 years old	935	0	+1	+2	+22	8	1.0x, steady
20825	a web application framework for python Python · 12 years old	834	0	+1	+1	+2	0	1.0x, steady
20826	Fast, flexible and simple GUI. C++ · 12 years old	853	0	0	+4	+71	0	1.0x, steady
20827	The Artsy.net website TypeScript · 12 years old	638	0	+1	+3	+22	0	1.0x, steady
20828	Ruby gem & CLI to detect a project's open source license (SPDX) from LICENSE files, package manifests, and READMEs Ruby · 12 years old	922	0	+1	+8	+72	8	1.0x, steady
20829	The Axelor Open Suite based on Axelor Open Platform Java · 12 years old	986	0	+1	+8	+84	0	1.0x, steady
20830	Cross-Platform Software-Defined Radio Application C++ · 12 years old	2,305	0	+7	+12	+134	0	1.0x, steady
20831	:globe_with_meridians: The Babel documentation website TypeScript · 12 years old	779	0	+1	+4	+22	0	1.0x, steady
20832	A simple static site generator written in Clojure HTML · 11 years old	1,132	0	0	0	+22	0	1.0x, steady
20833	Simple drawings using vector graphics; Cairo "for tourists!" Julia · 11 years old	631	0	0	0	+25	0	1.0x, steady
20834	Deprecated! ReactJS + NodeJS ( express ) demo tutorial with video. Universal/Isomorphic JS = Shared JavaScript that runs on both the client & server. JavaScript · 11 years old	1,668	0	+1	+1	+1	0	1.0x, steady
20835	No description Bikeshed · 11 years old	1,883	0	+1	+2	+31	0	1.0x, steady
20836	Full git and GitHub integration with Sublime Text Python · 11 years old	1,943	0	+3	+4	+26	0	1.0x, steady
20837	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
20838	Rime::Home is home to Rime users and developers HTML · 11 years old	5,030	0	+7	+29	+427	0	1.0x, steady
20839	Functors, Applicatives, And Monads in Python Python · 11 years old	755	0	+1	+1	+26	0	1.0x, steady
20840	A puzzle game inspired by functional programming PureScript · 11 years old	2,055	0	0	+9	+37	0	1.0x, steady
20841	Music player and music library manager for Linux, Windows, and macOS Python · 11 years old	1,772	0	+1	+9	+181	0	1.0x, steady
20842	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
20843	Raspberry Pi as FM transmitter C++ · 11 years old	1,497	0	0	+4	+104	0	1.0x, steady
20844	A modern lazy loading library for images. JavaScript · 11 years old	5,488	0	+1	+2	+8	0	1.0x, steady
20845	Static and runtime type checking for JavaScript in the form of a Babel plugin. JavaScript · 11 years old	879	0	+1	+1	+1	0	1.0x, steady
20846	WebAssembly specification, reference interpreter, and test suite. WebAssembly · 11 years old	3,472	0	+4	+9	+182	0	1.0x, steady
20847	Reproducible, static, curl binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows Shell · 11 years old	801	+1	+1	+3	+61	8	1.0x, steady
20848	A docker job scheduler (aka. crontab for docker) Go · 11 years old	4,031	0	+4	+25	+498	8	1.0x, steady
20849	GPS log file viewer and analyzer with support for GPX, TCX, KML, FIT, IGC, NMEA, SLF, SML, LOC, GPI, GeoJSON and OziExplorer files. C++ · 11 years old	1,257	0	+1	+10	+149	0	1.0x, steady
20850	Access Firefox's built in reader view from right click context menu JavaScript · 11 years old	564	0	0	+2	+53	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.