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, 13:20 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	Above pace ↑	Momentum	Speed-up
21551	Development repository for the rvm cookbook Ruby · 16 years old	512	0	0	0	+1	-3	0	0.3x, slowing
21552	Hamcrest for Objective-C: Powerful, combinable, extensible matchers for verification Objective-C · 15 years old	709	0	0	0	0	-3	0	0.0x, slowing
21553	Command line interface for Phabricator PHP · 15 years old	697	0	0	0	+6	-3	0	0.7x, slowing
21554	Go XMPP Library (From Yasuhiro Matsumoto and based on the code from Russ Cox) Go · 15 years old	556	0	+1	+1	+13	-3	0	0.8x, slowing
21555	Advanced shading language for production GI renderers C++ · 15 years old	2,348	0	+1	+6	+136	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21556	Send patches to https://review.coreboot.org: https://www.flashrom.org/Development_Guidelines#GitHub C · 15 years old	1,192	0	+1	+10	+155	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21557	A nerdy little interview website, asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done. HTML · 15 years old	599	0	+1	+2	+14	-3	0	0.8x, slowing
21558	Sitemap-generating framework for node.js TypeScript · 15 years old	1,709	0	-1	0	+73	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21559	JSON-LD processor written in Python Python · 15 years old	689	0	+1	+5	+42	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21560	lamdu - towards the next generation IDE Haskell · 15 years old	1,895	0	0	+1	+29	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21561	A tidy SQL-based DB access library for Scala developers. This library naturally wraps JDBC APIs and provides you easy-to-use APIs. Scala · 14 years old	1,280	0	+1	+1	+13	-3	0	0.8x, slowing
21562	Standards-compliant WebSocket client and server JavaScript · 14 years old	611	0	0	0	+2	-3	0	0.4x, slowing
21563	ORM agnostic truly Object-Oriented view helper for Rails 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Ruby · 14 years old	1,129	0	0	0	+16	-3	0	0.8x, slowing
21564	Development repository for the elasticsearch cookbook Ruby · 14 years old	878	0	0	0	+2	-3	0	0.4x, slowing
21565	VNC, RDP, SPICE, and oVirt/RHEV/Proxmox Clients for Android and Blackberry 10 Java · 14 years old	2,540	0	+5	+19	+242	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21566	The server administration software for your needs - The official Froxlor development Git repository PHP · 14 years old	1,752	0	+3	+5	+74	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21567	The Visual Headless Content Management System for Enterprises Java · 14 years old	972	0	+1	+2	+67	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21568	Useful localization tools with Python API for building localization & translation systems Python · 14 years old	986	0	+3	+6	+73	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21569	Minetest Game - A lightweight and well-maintained base for Luanti, intended for modding Lua · 14 years old	1,576	0	+1	+6	+92	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21570	Simple microORM that maps the results of a query onto a POCO object. Project based on Schotime's branch of PetaPoco C# · 14 years old	878	0	0	+1	+21	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21571	a mature, highly concurrent JDBC Connection pooling library, with support for caching and reuse of PreparedStatements. Java · 14 years old	1,319	0	0	+2	+20	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21572	Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk C · 14 years old	1,717	0	+1	+14	+169	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21573	Programmable Input Emulator C# · 14 years old	730	0	+1	+5	+45	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21574	GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. It provides powerful metadata editing and search functions as well as an interactive web map viewer. It is currently used in numerous Spatial Data Infrastructure initiatives across the world. Java · 14 years old	525	0	+1	+4	+49	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21575	Natural node.js and npm version manager for windows. JavaScript · 14 years old	1,734	0	+2	+4	+76	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21576	:date: The VObject library for PHP allows you to easily parse and manipulate iCalendar and vCard objects PHP · 14 years old	603	0	+1	+2	+18	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21577	JSON library Scala · 14 years old	1,485	0	-1	0	+5	-3	0	0.6x, slowing
21578	Browser extension for OpenPGP encryption with Webmail JavaScript · 14 years old	1,847	0	+1	+4	+87	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21579	Read-only mirror of R source code from https://svn.r-project.org/R/, updated hourly. See the build instructions on the wiki page. R · 14 years old	1,259	0	+4	+8	+67	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21580	A new Scala wrapper for Joda Time based on scala-time Scala · 13 years old	865	0	0	0	+1	-3	0	0.3x, slowing
21581	No description Jupyter Notebook · 13 years old	936	0	0	0	+10	-3	0	0.8x, slowing
21582	Adds null argument checks to an assembly IL Assembly · 13 years old	680	0	-1	+1	+4	-3	0	0.6x, slowing
21583	Purl is a simple Object Oriented URL manipulation library for PHP 7.2+ PHP · 13 years old	900	0	+1	+1	+1	-3	0	0.3x, slowing
21584	:boom::computer::boom: A data-parallel functional programming language Haskell · 13 years old	2,821	0	+4	+15	+234	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21585	Device OS (Firmware) for Particle Devices C++ · 13 years old	1,080	0	+1	+3	+18	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21586	IEEE 802.11 a/g/p Transceiver C++ · 13 years old	919	0	+3	+7	+87	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21587	Open-Source Quantum Chemistry – an electronic structure package in C++ driven by Python C++ · 13 years old	1,235	0	0	+6	+136	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21588	Braintree SDK for iOS Swift · 13 years old	586	0	+1	+1	+17	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21589	An application development platform C# · 13 years old	907	0	0	+1	+23	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21590	RISC-V Tools (ISA Simulator and Tests) Shell · 13 years old	1,197	0	+1	+2	+33	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21591	Extendable, adaptable rewrite of django.contrib.admin Python · 13 years old	1,187	0	+1	+1	+9	-3	0	0.8x, slowing
21592	📱🗞️ Android client for the Nextcloud news/feed reader app Java · 13 years old	771	0	0	+3	+46	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21593	Gerrit Code Review Tool Integration for the IntelliJ Platform Java · 13 years old	520	0	+1	+2	+13	-3	0	0.8x, slowing
21594	NLP tools for Turkish. Java · 13 years old	1,378	+1	+5	+9	+117	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21595	Toggl Track browser extension for Chrome and Firefox JavaScript · 13 years old	1,151	0	+1	+1	+32	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21596	Snowplow event tracker for client-side and server-side JavaScript. Add analytics to your websites, web apps and servers. TypeScript · 13 years old	593	0	+2	+3	+23	-3	8	0.9x, slowing
21597	Apache Commons Pool Java · 13 years old	557	0	+1	+4	+25	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21598	The world's most popular free, open source ad serving system. You can download the latest release at: PHP · 13 years old	1,520	0	0	+11	+143	-3	0	1.0x, steady
21599	Official content for Harvard CS109 Jupyter Notebook · 13 years old	1,798	0	+1	+3	+25	-3	0	0.9x, slowing
21600	A cluster consistency platform Java · 13 years old	669	0	0	+1	+14	-3	0	0.8x, slowing

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.