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 9 Nov 2026, 07:20 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
18051	Cutadapt removes adapter sequences from sequencing reads Python · 14 years old	592	0	+1	+4	+32	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18052	HTML reports for Cucumber Java · 14 years old	567	0	0	-1	+6	-13	0	0.3x, slowing
18053	Rails-inspired generator system that provides scaffolding for your apps TypeScript · 14 years old	1,264	0	0	0	+27	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18054	🌐 jQuery based internationalization library JavaScript · 14 years old	738	0	+1	+2	+16	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18055	Upstream focused ADI Linux kernel tree (see README.md on ci branch) C · 14 years old	661	0	0	+5	+107	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18056	Get info from any web service or page PHP · 14 years old	2,140	+1	+1	+2	+29	-13	8	0.7x, slowing
18057	Reorganize tables in PostgreSQL databases with minimal locks C · 13 years old	2,326	0	+3	+13	+224	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18058	Unconventional I/O library for Java Java · 13 years old	731	0	+2	+5	+33	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18059	userland threads C++ · 13 years old	512	0	0	+1	+22	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18060	Geographic add-ons for Django REST Framework. Maintained by the OpenWISP Project. Python · 13 years old	1,131	0	0	+1	+28	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18061	:elephant: Elasticsearch real-time search and analytics natively integrated with Hadoop Java · 13 years old	1,967	0	0	+2	+29	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18062	ICS/SCADA honeypot Python · 13 years old	1,540	+2	+1	+9	+153	-13	8	0.9x, slowing
18063	RSpec for Sidekiq Ruby · 13 years old	677	0	0	0	+8	-13	0	0.4x, slowing
18064	Compiler from OCaml to Javascript. OCaml · 13 years old	1,139	0	0	+4	+89	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18065	Library to build PHP extensions with C++ C++ · 13 years old	1,449	0	-1	-1	+15	-13	0	0.5x, slowing
18066	Firedrake is an automated system for the portable solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method (FEM) Python · 13 years old	682	0	+1	+5	+83	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18067	Python library for Junos automation Python · 13 years old	715	0	-2	-1	+21	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18068	Crossbar.io - WAMP application router Python · 13 years old	2,060	-1	-1	-1	+12	-13	0	0.5x, slowing
18069	Docker base images for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor web apps Shell · 12 years old	2,818	0	+1	+2	+27	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18070	Functional JDBC layer for Scala. Scala · 12 years old	2,226	0	0	+3	+39	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18071	📝 Generating, validating and processing secure forms in PHP. Handy API, fully customizable, server & client side validation and mature design. PHP · 12 years old	530	0	0	0	+14	-13	0	0.5x, slowing
18072	An interactive data visualization tool which brings matplotlib graphics to the browser using D3. Jupyter Notebook · 12 years old	2,412	0	0	+1	+34	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18073	cubic-bezier implementation for your JavaScript animation easings – MIT License JavaScript · 12 years old	1,781	0	0	+3	+23	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18074	Improved JPEG encoder. C · 12 years old	5,745	0	+4	+16	+171	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18075	Miranda NG: Next Generation of Miranda IM C++ · 12 years old	570	0	0	+2	+41	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18076	Python library for reading audio file metadata Python · 12 years old	845	0	+2	+4	+71	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18077	A modern iOS toast view that can fit your notification needs Objective-C · 12 years old	4,112	0	-2	-7	-4	-13	0	-0.4x, slowing
18078	Matlab toolbox for Geometry Processing. MATLAB · 12 years old	682	0	0	+1	+24	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18079	Platform Security Assessment Framework Python · 12 years old	3,325	+3	+3	+15	+206	-13	16	0.9x, slowing
18080	aiopg is a library for accessing a PostgreSQL database from the asyncio Python · 12 years old	1,434	+1	+2	+2	+23	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18081	A Python data analysis library that is optimized for humans instead of machines. Python · 12 years old	1,199	0	0	+2	+13	-13	0	0.5x, slowing
18082	Azure WebJobs SDK C# · 12 years old	755	0	0	+1	+7	-13	0	0.4x, slowing
18083	🏄 Official Docker Image of Swoole Dockerfile · 12 years old	567	0	+1	+1	+14	-13	0	0.5x, slowing
18084	The Stacks blockchain implementation Rust · 12 years old	3,065	0	+2	+5	+53	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18085	Course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments. Ruby · 12 years old	808	0	0	0	+25	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18086	Plan 9 from User Space C · 12 years old	1,971	0	0	+9	+182	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18087	An X11 menu C · 12 years old	962	0	0	+2	+31	-13	0	0.7x, slowing
18088	Provides read and write access to the Minecraft protocol with Bukkit. Java · 11 years old	1,330	0	0	+7	+170	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18089	:christmas_tree:Visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees R · 11 years old	936	0	+1	+1	+48	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18090	Go implementation of The Update Framework (TUF) Go · 11 years old	724	0	+2	+5	+45	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18091	Protein-Ligand Interaction Profiler - Analyze and visualize non-covalent protein-ligand interactions in PDB files according to 📝 Schake, Bolz, et al. (2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf361 Python · 11 years old	733	0	+5	+13	+136	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18092	procfs provides functions to retrieve system, kernel and process metrics from the pseudo-filesystem proc. Go · 11 years old	886	0	0	+3	+51	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18093	🛠️ Shared React utilities for rc-component packages. TypeScript · 11 years old	672	0	0	+1	+16	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18094	Fast, non-deadlocking parallel object cache for iOS, tvOS and OS X Objective-C · 11 years old	2,686	0	0	+3	+23	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18095	MPack - A C encoder/decoder for the MessagePack serialization format / msgpack.org[C] C · 11 years old	638	0	0	+1	+45	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18096	A Laravel Gravatar package for retrieving gravatar image URLs or checking the existance of an image. PHP · 11 years old	545	0	0	0	+5	-13	0	0.3x, slowing
18097	Kantai Collection Game Viewer and Tools JavaScript · 11 years old	501	0	0	+1	+19	-13	0	0.6x, slowing
18098	A declarative Unix terminal UI library written in Haskell Haskell · 11 years old	1,744	0	0	+5	+78	-13	0	0.9x, slowing
18099	Manage docker from Emacs. Emacs Lisp · 11 years old	832	0	+1	+5	+40	-13	0	0.8x, slowing
18100	An educational software system of a tiny self-compiling C compiler, a tiny self-executing RISC-V emulator, and a tiny self-hosting RISC-V hypervisor. Jupyter Notebook · 11 years old	2,534	0	0	+7	+90	-13	0	0.9x, slowing

Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day. 19 more tracked repositories are still loading their star history and will join the ranking once it is complete.