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, 14:20 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
20001	Lightweight, concurrent RPC framework for PHP&C C · 14 years old	1,433	0	-1	-1	+4	-5	0	0.4x, slowing
20002	Headless Chromium-based web performance metrics collector and monitoring tool JavaScript · 14 years old	2,262	0	-1	-1	+11	-5	0	0.7x, slowing
20003	😎 Tracy: the addictive tool to ease debugging PHP code for cool developers. Friendly design, logging, profiler, advanced features like debugging AJAX calls or CLI support. You will love it. PHP · 13 years old	1,836	0	+3	+3	+50	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20004	Yoast SEO for WordPress JavaScript · 13 years old	2,009	0	0	+5	+140	-5	0	1.0x, steady
20005	OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org. Python · 13 years old	676	0	0	0	+18	-5	0	0.8x, slowing
20006	Spearmint is a package to perform Bayesian optimization according to the algorithms outlined in the paper: Practical Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms. Jasper Snoek, Hugo Larochelle and Ryan P. Adams. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2012 Python · 13 years old	1,393	0	0	+1	+6	-5	0	0.5x, slowing
20007	A CIDER extension that provides powerful commands for refactoring Clojure code. Emacs Lisp · 13 years old	785	0	0	0	+8	-5	0	0.6x, slowing
20008	A robust and significantly extended implementation of JSONPath for Python, with a clear AST for metaprogramming. Python · 13 years old	610	0	0	0	+3	-5	0	0.4x, slowing
20009	Naming Convention checker for Python Python · 13 years old	532	0	+2	+3	+17	-5	0	0.8x, slowing
20010	Basic statistics for Julia Julia · 13 years old	615	0	0	+1	+21	-5	0	0.8x, slowing
20011	Chrome Status Dashboard Python · 13 years old	747	0	0	+2	+55	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20012	Haskoin Core is a Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash library Haskell · 13 years old	536	0	0	+1	+7	-5	0	0.6x, slowing
20013	ROS support for Velodyne 3D LIDARs C++ · 13 years old	729	0	+1	+4	+40	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20014	Frida Python bindings Python · 13 years old	877	0	-2	+1	+51	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20015	A framework for distributed systems verification, with fault injection Clojure · 13 years old	7,567	0	+12	+46	+413	-5	0	1.0x, steady
20016	RStan, the R interface to Stan R · 13 years old	1,090	0	+2	+4	+33	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20017	THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL REPO - PLEASE SUBMIT PRs ETC AT: http://github.com/sqlalchemy/alembic Python · 13 years old	525	0	-1	-1	+10	-5	0	0.7x, slowing
20018	Snowplow event tracker for client-side and server-side JavaScript. Add analytics to your websites, web apps and servers. TypeScript · 13 years old	591	0	0	+1	+21	-5	0	0.8x, slowing
20019	Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE including autocompletion, code linting, IDE features, autopep8 formating, McCabe complexity checker Vagrant and Docker support for Sublime Text 3 using Jedi, PyFlakes, pep8, MyPy, PyLint, pep257 and McCabe that will never freeze your Sublime Text 3 Python · 13 years old	2,243	0	0	+2	+25	-5	0	0.8x, slowing
20020	Static file server middleware TypeScript · 13 years old	1,148	+1	+1	+1	+6	-5	8	0.5x, slowing
20021	save/convert web pages to a standalone editable html file for offline archive/view/edit/play/whatever HTML · 13 years old	518	0	0	+1	+18	-5	0	0.8x, slowing
20022	Puma integration for Capistrano Ruby · 13 years old	623	0	0	0	+5	-5	0	0.5x, slowing
20023	LKM rootkit for Linux Kernels 2.6.x-7.x (x86/x86_64 and ARM/ARM64) C · 13 years old	2,489	0	+1	+21	+349	-5	0	1.0x, steady
20024	Simple backup and restore for Amazon DynamoDB using AWS SDK for Python (boto3) Python · 12 years old	876	0	0	0	+9	-5	0	0.6x, slowing
20025	Scala compiler plugin for static code analysis Scala · 12 years old	560	0	+1	+3	+16	-5	0	0.8x, slowing
20026	Easy to use, very low overhead, Java APM Java · 12 years old	1,360	0	0	+3	+71	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20027	Exercism exercises in Rust. Rust · 12 years old	1,803	0	+1	+12	+186	-5	0	1.0x, steady
20028	RFCs for changes to Rust Markdown · 12 years old	6,631	0	+1	+25	+407	-5	0	1.0x, steady
20029	Insomnia Mockbin is the underlying backend for the API mocks capability of Insomnia. It is built and used by Kong, the author of the open-source Kong Gateway. JavaScript · 12 years old	2,055	-1	-2	-2	+18	-5	0	0.8x, slowing
20030	Sidekiq integration for Capistrano Ruby · 12 years old	561	0	0	0	+3	-5	0	0.4x, slowing
20031	Meta's Client Platform Engineering tools. Some of the tools we have written to help manage our fleet of client systems. Ruby · 12 years old	575	0	0	+1	+6	-5	0	0.5x, slowing
20032	Getting Started with Node.js on Heroku EJS · 12 years old	1,084	0	+1	+2	+16	-5	0	0.8x, slowing
20033	GitToolBox IntelliJ plugin 12 years old	629	0	0	+1	+14	-5	0	0.7x, slowing
20034	NormalMap Generator Online JavaScript · 12 years old	564	0	0	+2	+59	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20035	NativeScript CLI - command-line tools JavaScript · 12 years old	1,052	0	0	0	+13	-5	0	0.7x, slowing
20036	Apache Ranger - Centralized, fine-grained authorization and auditing across data and AI platforms Java · 12 years old	1,086	0	0	+8	+100	-5	0	1.0x, steady
20037	A Renderer for the marked project. Allowing you to render Markdown to print to your Terminal TypeScript · 12 years old	504	0	+3	+4	+40	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20038	Go library for the VMware vSphere API Go · 12 years old	2,564	0	+1	+11	+145	-5	0	1.0x, steady
20039	A collection of git utilities, useful extra git scripts, tutorials and other useful articles. Shell · 12 years old	1,177	0	+2	+4	+83	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20040	Define fortify and autoplot functions to allow ggplot2 to handle some popular R packages. R · 12 years old	541	0	0	0	+7	-5	0	0.6x, slowing
20041	CLI wrapper for basic network utilites on Mac OS X inspired with iproute2 on Linux systems - ip command. Python · 12 years old	1,067	0	+3	+7	+85	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20042	Cross-Platform Software-Defined Radio Application C++ · 12 years old	2,302	0	+4	+9	+129	-5	0	1.0x, steady
20043	A Low Garbage Java Serialisation Library that supports multiple formats Java · 11 years old	605	0	+1	0	+45	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20044	Acoustic testing and source mapping software Python · 11 years old	666	0	+3	+8	+86	-5	8	0.9x, slowing
20045	Low level access to native memory, JVM and OS. Java · 11 years old	645	0	0	+1	+36	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20046	The Moodle App TypeScript · 11 years old	1,005	0	+1	+5	+92	-5	0	1.0x, steady
20047	An extensible YANG validator and converter in python Python · 11 years old	571	0	-1	0	+20	-5	0	0.8x, slowing
20048	The Standard Ebooks toolset for producing our ebook files. HTML · 11 years old	1,688	0	+3	+7	+139	-5	0	1.0x, steady
20049	PHP runtime & extensions header files for PhpStorm PHP · 11 years old	1,398	0	+1	+8	+51	-5	0	0.9x, slowing
20050	Empty projects for different languages with a failing test JavaScript · 11 years old	550	0	0	0	+21	-5	0	0.8x, slowing

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