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. Star counts come from GitHub. Last updated 12 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	Above pace ↑	Momentum	Speed-up
27101	a pyenv plugin to manage virtualenv (a.k.a. python-virtualenv) Shell · 13 years old	6,727	+1	+2	+8	+18	-6	8	0.8x, slowing
27102	Hackers is an elegant iOS app for reading Hacker News written in Swift. Swift · 13 years old	768	0	0	+3	+8	-6	0	0.6x, slowing
27103	The Standard ROS JavaScript Library TypeScript · 13 years old	833	0	+1	+2	+6	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
27104	DO NOT CHECK OUT THESE FILES FROM GITHUB UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. (See below.) C · 13 years old	3,116	0	+2	+11	+34	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
27105	Frida core library Vala · 13 years old	790	0	+1	+10	+28	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
27106	:bulb: dokieli is a clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions JavaScript · 13 years old	894	0	0	+2	+6	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
27107	Facilitating Open Science Python · 13 years old	731	0	+1	0	+2	-6	0	0.3x, slowing
27108	An ultra fast cross-platform multiple screenshots module in pure Python using ctypes. Python · 13 years old	1,289	0	-2	+3	+13	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
27109	PHP Reader for the MaxMind DB Database Format PHP · 13 years old	709	0	+2	+4	+4	-6	0	0.4x, slowing
27110	A declarative, simple, fast, and fun package for building command line tools in Go Go · 13 years old	24,323	0	+12	+48	+180	-6	0	1.0x, steady
27111	Android Anti-Emulator Java · 13 years old	840	0	+1	+1	+5	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
27112	PycURL - Python interface to libcurl Python · 13 years old	1,171	0	-1	+1	+7	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
27113	A Go based command line tool for exercism.org. Go · 13 years old	1,447	0	+1	+4	+17	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
27114	Automating packaging and software distribution on macOS. Python · 13 years old	1,489	0	+3	+4	+16	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
27115	Scheduler / Cron for Sidekiq jobs Ruby · 13 years old	1,945	0	0	0	+2	-6	0	0.3x, slowing
27116	Go package for dealing with maps, slices, JSON and other data. Go · 13 years old	876	0	+1	+4	+12	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
27117	A flexible forms validation and rendering library for Python. Python · 13 years old	1,583	0	0	+3	+6	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
27118	OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. C · 13 years old	5,069	0	-1	+14	+47	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
27119	PDFsam, a desktop application to split, merge, mix, rotate PDF files and extract pages Java · 13 years old	4,668	+1	+12	+50	+144	-6	16	1.0x, steady
27120	N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python Python · 13 years old	4,226	0	+6	+18	+47	-6	8	0.9x, slowing
27121	GNU/Linux/nix client for DroidCam C · 13 years old	1,228	0	+2	+4	+12	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
27122	TOTP and HOTP one-time passwords. PHP · 13 years old	1,496	0	0	+3	+12	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
27123	Provides the functionality to compare PHP values for equality. PHP · 13 years old	7,043	0	+1	+1	+6	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
27124	Principled, lightweight C/C++ PE parser C++ · 12 years old	912	0	0	0	+6	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
27125	World generator using simulation of plates, rain shadow, erosion, etc. Python · 12 years old	1,078	0	0	+2	+11	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
27126	Command line tool for working with OpenStreetMap data based on the Osmium library. C++ · 12 years old	715	0	+1	+10	+22	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
27127	OpenUI5 lets you build enterprise-ready web applications, responsive to all devices, running on almost any browser of your choice. JavaScript · 12 years old	3,326	0	0	+8	+28	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
27128	Cleo allows you to create beautiful and testable command-line interfaces. Python · 12 years old	1,358	0	0	+1	+7	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
27129	Core module of the Mupen64Plus project C · 12 years old	1,571	0	+2	+9	+22	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
27130	AsyncSSH is a Python package which provides an asynchronous client and server implementation of the SSHv2 protocol on top of the Python asyncio framework. Python · 12 years old	1,765	+1	+3	+7	+20	-6	8	0.8x, slowing
27131	JVM version of Pact. Enables consumer driven contract testing, providing a mock service and DSL for the consumer project, and interaction playback and verification for the service provider project. Kotlin · 12 years old	1,148	0	0	+1	+8	-6	0	0.6x, slowing
27132	The website for Hexo. https://hexo.io/ Stylus · 12 years old	723	0	0	+3	+7	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
27133	BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software Framework C · 12 years old	2,702	0	+1	+10	+37	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
27134	Debian's w3m: WWW browsable pager C · 12 years old	1,087	0	+3	+3	+18	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
27135	Python library for reading audio file metadata Python · 12 years old	846	0	+2	+5	+16	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
27136	API server and website for Hex Elixir · 12 years old	1,173	0	+1	+2	+6	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
27137	Push acceptor for ephemeral and batch jobs. Go · 12 years old	3,377	0	+1	+6	+27	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
27138	Salesforce API Library for JavaScript applications (both on Node.js and web browser) TypeScript · 12 years old	1,474	0	0	+5	+8	-6	0	0.6x, slowing
27139	AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11. Python · 12 years old	3,906	0	+3	+12	+45	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
27140	Baresip is a modular SIP User-Agent with audio and video support C · 12 years old	2,268	0	+1	+20	+86	-6	8	0.9x, slowing
27141	An SVG loader component for ReactJS TypeScript · 12 years old	1,320	0	0	+1	+3	-6	0	0.3x, slowing
27142	GL4ES is a OpenGL 2.1/1.5 to GL ES 2.0/1.1 translation library, with support for Pandora, ODroid, OrangePI, CHIP, Raspberry PI, Android, Emscripten and AmigaOS4. C · 12 years old	868	+1	+5	+11	+20	-6	16	0.8x, slowing
27143	An open source C++ game engine. C++ · 12 years old	2,037	0	-1	+11	+56	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
27144	ˈyːbɐˌzɪçt Objective-C · 12 years old	5,018	0	+4	+20	+58	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
27145	Status, process, and documents for ECMA-262 HTML · 12 years old	15,705	0	+3	+24	+72	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
27146	OpenLDAP container image 🐳🪪🌴 Go · 12 years old	4,232	0	+1	+1	+14	-6	0	0.7x, slowing
27147	Atlassian Python REST API wrapper. The atlassian-python-api library provides a simple and convenient way to interact with Atlassian products (such as Jira Service management, Jira Software, Confluence, Bitbucket and apps Insight, X-Ray) using Python. It is based on the official REST APIs of these products and by community for Atlassian Python · 12 years old	1,684	0	+1	+7	+22	-6	0	0.8x, slowing
27148	ProFTPD source code C · 12 years old	601	0	0	+1	+6	-6	0	0.5x, slowing
27149	Apache Pinot: a real-time analytics database for low-latency SQL and vector search, serving user-facing and agent-facing applications Java · 12 years old	6,171	0	-1	+18	+55	-6	0	0.9x, slowing
27150	HTTP middleware for Go that facilitates some quick security wins. Go · 12 years old	2,359	0	0	+1	+9	-6	0	0.6x, slowing

Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day. 15 more tracked repositories are still loading their star history and will join the ranking once it is complete.