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 12 Nov 2026, 12:20 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
28101	The Computer History Simulation Project C · 15 years old	1,893	0	+1	+7	+109	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28102	Symfony integration for the doctrine/data-fixtures library PHP · 15 years old	2,528	0	-1	+1	+46	-30	0	0.6x, slowing
28103	multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application HTML · 15 years old	2,476	0	+2	+4	+57	-30	8	0.7x, slowing
28104	RFC6265 Cookies and CookieJar for Node.js TypeScript · 15 years old	1,067	0	0	+3	+43	-30	0	0.6x, slowing
28105	VisuallyJs releases and issue tracking 14 years old	7,765	0	+3	+6	+38	-30	8	0.6x, slowing
28106	WarpDrive is the lightweight data library for ambitious web apps — universal, typed, reactive, and ready to scale. TypeScript · 14 years old	3,162	0	+2	+4	+66	-30	0	0.7x, slowing
28107	The /tg/station branch of SS13. DM · 14 years old	1,943	0	+1	+3	+125	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28108	ICU MessageFormat and Unicode Messageformat for Javascript TypeScript · 14 years old	1,773	0	+1	+1	+37	-30	0	0.6x, slowing
28109	A Sentry SDK for Java, Android and other JVM languages. Kotlin · 14 years old	1,362	0	+5	+7	+103	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28110	Create word clouds in JavaScript. JavaScript · 14 years old	3,949	0	-2	-1	+62	-30	0	0.7x, slowing
28111	PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) solution. Boasting an impressive feature set including a captive-portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired and wireless management, powerful BYOD management options, 802.1X support, layer-2 isolation of problematic devices; PacketFence can be used to effectively secure networks small to very large heterogeneous networks. Perl · 14 years old	1,713	0	+1	+11	+165	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28112	A datepicker for twitter bootstrap (@twbs) JavaScript · 14 years old	12,629	0	-1	+1	+46	-30	0	0.6x, slowing
28113	UEFI shim loader C · 14 years old	1,117	0	0	+8	+122	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28114	DSP IIR realtime filter library written in C++ C++ · 14 years old	783	0	+1	+5	+64	-30	0	0.7x, slowing
28115	Use Database URLs in your Django Application. Python · 14 years old	1,573	0	0	+2	+40	-30	0	0.6x, slowing
28116	Cross-platform modern C++ GUI C++ · 14 years old	1,079	0	+1	+4	+128	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28117	Repository for the main Dockerfile with the OpenWorm software stack and project-wide issues Python · 13 years old	3,080	0	+3	+14	+210	-30	0	0.9x, slowing
28118	Node.js client library for the Auth0 platform. TypeScript · 13 years old	683	0	0	+1	+14	-30	0	0.3x, slowing
28119	Compositional, streaming I/O library for Scala Scala · 13 years old	2,456	0	0	+2	+48	-30	0	0.6x, slowing
28120	Java API for GeoIP2 webservice client and database reader Java · 13 years old	867	0	+2	+4	+32	-30	0	0.5x, slowing
28121	🔖 Bookmark app for Nextcloud JavaScript · 13 years old	1,226	0	+1	+8	+100	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28122	A C++, header-only library for constructing JSON and JSON-like data formats, with JSON Pointer, JSON Patch, JSON Schema, JSONPath, JMESPath, CSV, MessagePack, CBOR, BSON, UBJSON, toon-format C++ · 13 years old	859	0	+3	+6	+62	-30	0	0.7x, slowing
28123	A collection of source code generators for Java. Java · 13 years old	10,562	0	+1	+8	+124	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28124	Meta's Thrift implementation: cross-language serialization and high-performance async RPC C++ · 13 years old	2,703	0	0	+7	+65	-30	8	0.7x, slowing
28125	Haskell to VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog compiler Haskell · 13 years old	1,631	-1	+5	+12	+91	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28126	Mailgun's Official SDK for PHP PHP · 13 years old	1,135	0	+1	+1	+13	-30	0	0.3x, slowing
28127	NUnit Framework C# · 13 years old	2,631	0	-1	+5	+70	-30	0	0.7x, slowing
28128	Cleo allows you to create beautiful and testable command-line interfaces. Python · 12 years old	1,358	0	0	+1	+36	-30	0	0.5x, slowing
28129	Simple mDNS client/server library in Golang Go · 12 years old	1,400	0	+4	+10	+99	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28130	A simple ZSH quickstart for using ZSH, zgenom, oh-my-zsh and a curated list of extra plugins. It is designed to be easy to customize without requiring you to maintain your own fork. Shell · 12 years old	908	0	-2	0	+59	-30	0	0.7x, slowing
28131	The Sequelize CLI JavaScript · 12 years old	2,554	0	0	-1	+16	-30	0	0.3x, slowing
28132	ChucK Music Programming Language C++ · 12 years old	1,054	0	+1	+5	+113	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28133	swift implementation of flappy bird. More at fullstackedu.com Swift · 12 years old	9,666	0	-1	0	+43	-30	0	0.6x, slowing
28134	Ansible Role - Security Jinja · 12 years old	961	0	0	+3	+65	-30	0	0.7x, slowing
28135	Immutable in-memory R-tree and R*-tree implementations in Java with reactive api Java · 12 years old	1,144	0	0	+1	+17	-30	0	0.4x, slowing
28136	Brython (Browser Python) is an implementation of Python 3 running in the browser Python · 12 years old	6,614	0	+1	+4	+158	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28137	An opinionated formatter/linter for Dart code Dart · 12 years old	700	0	-1	-1	+21	-30	0	0.4x, slowing
28138	Graphical GREP tool for Windows C# · 12 years old	2,239	0	+4	+38	+358	-30	0	0.9x, slowing
28139	Badge Magic with LEDs - mobile and desktop app, iOS, Mac, Android Dart · 12 years old	2,040	0	+3	+9	+97	-30	8	0.8x, slowing
28140	Data for this-week-in-rust.org Python · 12 years old	2,658	0	+3	+11	+254	-30	0	0.9x, slowing
28141	Markdown parser written in kotlin Kotlin · 11 years old	969	0	+1	+5	+126	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28142	Automatically find diff lines that need test coverage. Python · 11 years old	850	0	0	+1	+61	-30	0	0.7x, slowing
28143	Ruby implementation of GraphQL Ruby · 11 years old	5,446	0	+1	+4	+51	-30	0	0.6x, slowing
28144	Open source hot backup tool for InnoDB and XtraDB databases C++ · 11 years old	1,561	0	0	+5	+134	-30	0	0.8x, slowing
28145	A simple example of use push notifications on the web using Service Workers JavaScript · 11 years old	948	0	0	0	+14	-30	0	0.3x, slowing
28146	a react-based framework that provides accessibility, modularity, responsiveness, and theming in a tidy package JavaScript · 11 years old	8,352	0	-1	+3	+49	-30	0	0.6x, slowing
28147	An unordered C++ data container providing fast iteration/insertion/erasure while maintaining pointer/iterator validity to non-erased elements regardless of insertions/erasures. Provides higher-performance than std:: library containers for high-modification scenarios with unordered data. C++ · 11 years old	514	0	+4	+5	+46	-30	0	0.6x, slowing
28148	Dedicated to JavaScript and its awesome community since 2015 JavaScript · 11 years old	5,906	0	+4	+37	+357	-30	0	0.9x, slowing
28149	Package to rebuild native Node.js modules against the currently installed Electron version TypeScript · 11 years old	1,123	0	0	+1	+41	-30	0	0.6x, slowing
28150	Node.js samples for Google Cloud Platform products. JavaScript · 11 years old	2,999	0	+2	+4	+103	-30	0	0.8x, slowing

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