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, lowest first. Star counts come from GitHub. Last updated 8 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. 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
16451	jQuery Validation Plugin library sources JavaScript · 16 years old	10,313	0	+1	+2	+48	-19	0	0.7x, slowing
16452	Touchscreen access library C · 16 years old	676	0	-1	+2	+22	-19	0	0.5x, slowing
16453	bike sharing + python = pybikes Python · 16 years old	609	0	0	+2	+20	-19	0	0.5x, slowing
16454	Object Oriented menus for your Symfony project. PHP · 16 years old	1,405	0	0	+1	+4	-19	0	0.2x, slowing
16455	Managing windows size and position in OSX Objective-C · 16 years old	5,538	0	-1	+1	+24	-19	0	0.6x, slowing
16456	JSLint, The JavaScript Code Quality and Coverage Tool JavaScript · 15 years old	3,655	0	-1	-1	+33	-19	0	0.6x, slowing
16457	FUSE bindings for Go Go · 15 years old	2,393	0	+4	+15	+180	-19	0	0.9x, slowing
16458	A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. Python · 15 years old	54,724	0	-89	+171	+1,647	-19	0	1.0x, steady
16459	Github client for Android Java · 15 years old	2,009	0	+2	+9	+164	-19	0	0.9x, slowing
16460	Collaborative Online Scrum Tool Using Websockets, Node.js, jQuery, and CSS3 HTML · 15 years old	1,428	0	0	-2	+4	-19	0	0.2x, slowing
16461	The Pods Framework is a Content Development Framework for WordPress - It lets you create and extend content types that can be used for any project. Add fields of various types we've built in, or add your own with custom inputs, you have total control. PHP · 15 years old	1,118	0	-1	-1	+29	-19	0	0.6x, slowing
16462	The Sublime Text package manager Python · 15 years old	4,891	-1	-2	+4	+70	-19	0	0.8x, slowing
16463	PDAL is Point Data Abstraction Library. GDAL for point cloud data. C++ · 15 years old	1,432	0	+5	+11	+144	-19	0	0.9x, slowing
16464	GammaRay is a tool to poke around in a Qt-application and also to manipulate the application to some extent. C++ · 15 years old	1,924	0	0	+5	+157	-19	0	0.9x, slowing
16465	Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA Scala · 14 years old	1,229	0	0	+2	+17	-19	0	0.5x, slowing
16466	C++11 multiplatform utility library C++ · 14 years old	522	0	-1	-1	+13	-19	0	0.4x, slowing
16467	Load images provided as File or Blob objects or via URL. Retrieve an optionally scaled, cropped or rotated HTML img or canvas element. Use methods to parse image metadata to extract IPTC and Exif tags as well as embedded thumbnail images, to overwrite the Exif Orientation value and to restore the complete image header after resizing. JavaScript · 14 years old	4,453	0	-1	0	+25	-19	0	0.6x, slowing
16468	C++ library for creating an embedded Rest HTTP server (and more) C++ · 14 years old	955	0	0	+2	+28	-19	0	0.6x, slowing
16469	Gambit is an efficient implementation of the Scheme programming language. Scheme · 14 years old	1,448	0	0	+3	+66	-19	0	0.8x, slowing
16470	The developer tools panel for WordPress and WooCommerce PHP · 14 years old	1,783	0	+3	+7	+102	-19	0	0.8x, slowing
16471	Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc C++ · 14 years old	2,505	0	+4	+15	+219	-19	0	0.9x, slowing
16472	4D bin packing / knapsack problem solver PHP · 14 years old	661	0	-1	+1	+20	-19	0	0.5x, slowing
16473	Geospatial extension to SQLAlchemy Python · 14 years old	712	0	+1	+2	+31	-19	0	0.6x, slowing
16474	Java Template Engine Java · 13 years old	1,198	0	-1	+2	+48	-19	0	0.7x, slowing
16475	McuOnEclipse projects and examples C · 13 years old	765	0	+1	+1	+12	-19	0	0.4x, slowing
16476	Lightweight, embedded, syncable NoSQL database engine for iOS and MacOS apps. Objective-C · 13 years old	1,665	0	-4	-2	+20	-19	0	0.5x, slowing
16477	No description PHP · 13 years old	1,240	0	0	+3	+42	-19	0	0.7x, slowing
16478	Provide support to increase developer productivity in Java when using Elasticsearch. Uses familiar Spring concepts such as a template classes for core API usage and lightweight repository style data access. Java · 13 years old	2,959	0	+1	+2	+43	-19	0	0.7x, slowing
16479	A better compressed bitset in Java: used by Apache Spark, Netflix Atlas, Apache Pinot, Tablesaw, and many others Java · 13 years old	3,955	0	0	+15	+224	-19	0	0.9x, slowing
16480	A Java library for the Dropbox Core API. Java · 13 years old	631	0	+1	+3	+18	-19	0	0.5x, slowing
16481	Haskell source code suggestions Haskell · 13 years old	1,617	0	+3	+7	+72	-19	0	0.8x, slowing
16482	A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages Ruby · 13 years old	1,873	0	0	+1	+29	-19	0	0.6x, slowing
16483	C# .NET NOSQL ( key value, object store embedded TextSearch SemanticSearch Vector layer ) ACID multi-paradigm database management system. C# · 13 years old	582	0	0	+1	+20	-19	0	0.5x, slowing
16484	A collection of Rack middleware to support JSON Schema. Ruby · 13 years old	956	0	0	+2	+33	-19	0	0.6x, slowing
16485	Apache Storm Java · 13 years old	6,701	+1	+3	+9	+88	-19	8	0.8x, slowing
16486	Online Mindmapping Software TypeScript · 12 years old	3,370	0	+2	+6	+51	-19	0	0.7x, slowing
16487	Simple backup tool for PostgreSQL Go · 12 years old	566	0	0	0	+13	-19	0	0.4x, slowing
16488	Slimefun 4 - A unique Spigot/Paper plugin that looks and feels like a modpack. We've been giving you backpacks, jetpacks, reactors and much more since 2013. Java · 12 years old	1,139	0	+3	+8	+97	-19	0	0.8x, slowing
16489	Official home of the JmDNS library Java · 12 years old	669	0	-1	+1	+42	-19	0	0.7x, slowing
16490	Docker official jenkins repo PowerShell · 12 years old	7,684	0	+2	+32	+559	-19	0	1.0x, steady
16491	Convert pptx file to HTML by using pure javascript JavaScript · 12 years old	645	+1	+3	+9	+56	-19	8	0.7x, slowing
16492	Plugin for VLC that pauses/plays video on mouse click C · 12 years old	1,223	0	+1	+12	+143	-19	0	0.9x, slowing
16493	Test-driven documentation for RESTful services Java · 12 years old	1,185	0	0	+1	+18	-19	0	0.5x, slowing
16494	University Domains and Names Data List & API Python · 12 years old	1,677	0	0	+10	+185	-19	0	0.9x, slowing
16495	C# shared memory classes for sharing data between processes (Array, Buffer and Circular Buffer) C# · 12 years old	607	0	0	+1	+13	-19	0	0.4x, slowing
16496	Erlang build tool that makes it easy to compile and test Erlang applications and releases. Erlang · 11 years old	1,825	0	+2	+6	+69	-19	0	0.8x, slowing
16497	the t-rex runner game extracted from chromium JavaScript · 11 years old	2,199	0	0	+17	+120	-19	0	0.9x, slowing
16498	CLI tool for extracting images and sounds from visual novels. C++ · 11 years old	671	0	0	+1	+45	-19	0	0.7x, slowing
16499	An open-source ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution for WordPress PHP · 11 years old	701	0	+1	+2	+25	-19	0	0.6x, slowing
16500	:dolphin: :horse: Extensions to Django for use with MySQL/MariaDB Python · 11 years old	586	0	0	0	+4	-19	0	0.2x, slowing

Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day. 177 more tracked repositories are still loading their star history and will join the ranking once it is complete.