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 10 Nov 2026, 09:20 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
23551	Guide for using 4IFIR - ultimate CFW for overlocking Nintendo Switch C++ · 3 years old	513	0	+16	+69	+111	+15	0	1.2x faster
23552	Ship JavaScript products with battle-tested technologies in days not weeks. JavaScript · 3 years old	504	0	0	0	+55	+15	0	1.4x faster
23553	GenAI for Optimization and Decision Intelligence Python · 3 years old	729	0	0	+9	+213	+15	0	1.1x faster
23554	A GUI LPA for managing eSIMs on removable eUICCs. Go · 2 years old	790	0	+1	+20	+278	+15	0	1.1x faster
23555	The ultimate setup for the PlayStation 2's internal drive. Shell · 2 years old	1,025	0	+12	+59	+519	+15	0	1.0x, steady
23556	Tensorlake is a serverless runtime for sandboxes and deploying background agentic applications Rust · 23 months old	1,043	0	+6	+23	+529	+15	0	Under 2 years
23557	Validation Tools for A2A Agents Go · 16 months old	512	0	+5	+14	+262	+15	8	Under 2 years
23558	Zero-trust supply-chain security for open source: detects malicious & vulnerable dependencies, typosquats, leaked secrets and unsafe GitHub Actions — and pays independent researchers in shielded Zcash via a front-running-proof bounty protocol. Python · 18 days old	40	0	-19	+15all	+15all	+15	0	New
23559	Apache Commons IO Java · 17 years old	1,088	0	+1	+7	+62	+16	0	1.4x faster
23560	Public/backup repository of the GROMACS molecular simulation toolkit. Please do not mine the metadata blindly; we use https://gitlab.com/gromacs/gromacs for code review and issue tracking. C++ · 17 years old	974	0	0	+8	+148	+16	0	1.1x faster
23561	RDoc produces HTML and online documentation for Ruby projects. Ruby · 15 years old	930	0	+2	+3	+58	+16	0	1.4x faster
23562	Zero-boilerplate REST API framework for PHP 8+. Auto-generates routes, docs, validation. PHP · 15 years old	1,387	0	+1	+2	+27	+16	0	2.5x faster
23563	Collection of userscripts for MusicBrainz, by various authors JavaScript · 14 years old	760	0	-1	+5	+119	+16	0	1.2x faster
23564	A guide for programming in style. Ruby · 14 years old	9,568	0	-1	+2	+108	+16	0	1.2x faster
23565	Classic overhead run-and-gun game C · 13 years old	1,110	0	+6	+20	+126	+16	0	1.1x faster
23566	📦 The Extras bucket for Scoop. PowerShell · 13 years old	2,175	0	+3	+15	+222	+16	0	1.1x faster
23567	No description Python · 13 years old	576	0	+1	+13	+87	+16	0	1.2x faster
23568	An online repository of user scripts. Ruby · 12 years old	2,155	0	+5	+35	+361	+16	0	1.0x, steady
23569	An analysis and visualization platform for 'omics data Python · 12 years old	545	0	0	+2	+65	+16	0	1.3x faster
23570	Exercism exercises in Go. Go · 12 years old	1,196	0	0	+4	+120	+16	0	1.2x faster
23571	AnyKernel, Evolved Shell · 12 years old	1,475	0	+6	+22	+255	+16	0	1.1x faster
23572	No description C++ · 12 years old	1,035	0	+1	+11	+76	+16	0	1.3x faster
23573	[MIRROR] Alpine packages build scripts Shell · 12 years old	735	0	+1	+6	+56	+16	0	1.4x faster
23574	English and European soccer results 1871-2022 R · 12 years old	786	0	+1	+1	+28	+16	0	2.3x faster
23575	Android feed reader app Kotlin · 12 years old	3,125	0	+18	+67	+829	+16	0	1.0x, steady
23576	Lightning fast code searching made easy JavaScript · 11 years old	5,894	0	+1	+16	+150	+16	0	1.1x faster
23577	Social media plugin for eventyay Python · 11 years old	1,570	0	+2	+3	+36	+16	0	1.8x faster
23578	Render After Effects animations natively on Web, Android and iOS, and React Native. http://airbnb.io/lottie/ JavaScript · 11 years old	32,391	0	+46	+202	+1,127	+16	5	1.0x, steady
23579	Audio Editor C++ · 11 years old	19,007	-1	+57	+329	+3,400	+16	21	1.0x, steady
23580	Dradis Framework: Collaboration and reporting for IT Security teams Ruby · 10 years old	846	0	+1	+4	+98	+16	0	1.2x faster
23581	Information useful to people contributing to Rust Rust · 10 years old	573	0	+1	+5	+71	+16	0	1.3x faster
23582	TDA - Thread Dump Analyzer (for Java). Analyze your Thread Dumps with a GUI or use it as MCP Server. Java · 10 years old	553	0	0	+3	+30	+16	0	2.1x faster
23583	Hardware details and information to build an open firmware for LED badge C · 10 years old	1,614	0	+3	+5	+74	+16	0	1.3x faster
23584	A game framework written with osu! in mind. C# · 10 years old	2,032	0	+1	+11	+220	+16	0	1.1x faster
23585	Raw data for Japanese Anime JavaScript · 10 years old	663	0	-1	+12	+98	+16	0	1.2x faster
23586	A CNCF Project to Bootstrap & Maintain Trust on the Edge / Cloud and IoT Python · 10 years old	575	0	+2	+7	+86	+16	0	1.2x faster
23587	REST API to access D&D 5th Edition SRD database TypeScript · 9 years old	648	0	+1	+7	+90	+16	0	1.2x faster
23588	Tool for real-time visualization, monitoring and collaborative analysis of AI/ML experiments and live data. Supports Python, PyTorch/Torch, NumPy, TensorFlow/Keras https://visdom.dev Python · 9 years old	10,338	0	+12	+25	+240	+16	0	1.1x faster
23589	System and process monitor for Linux C · 9 years old	1,082	0	+1	+6	+152	+16	0	1.1x faster
23590	Software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications C · 9 years old	2,542	0	+9	+30	+363	+16	0	1.0x, steady
23591	A fast, scalable, high performance Gradient Boosting on Decision Trees library, used for ranking, classification, regression and other machine learning tasks for Python, R, Java, C++. Supports computation on CPU and GPU. C++ · 9 years old	9,198	0	+6	+66	+640	+16	0	1.0x, steady
23592	Netgen/NGSolve is a high performance multiphysics finite element software. It is widely used to analyze models from solid mechanics, fluid dynamics and electromagnetics. Due to its flexible Python interface new physical equations and solution algorithms can be implemented easily. C++ · 9 years old	591	0	+1	+2	+92	+16	0	1.2x faster
23593	A Creative Coding Framework for Rust. Rust · 9 years old	6,779	0	+3	+18	+443	+16	0	1.0x, steady
23594	👑 Automatically tracked Steam, CS2, Dota 2, Deadlock, TF2 protobufs. Shell · 9 years old	589	0	+1	+4	+113	+16	0	1.2x faster
23595	Online ArUco markers generator JavaScript · 8 years old	595	0	+2	+4	+97	+16	0	1.2x faster
23596	FCEUX, a NES Emulator C++ · 8 years old	1,580	0	+1	+12	+202	+16	0	1.1x faster
23597	Automatic verification of LLVM optimizations C++ · 8 years old	1,205	0	+6	+24	+226	+16	0	1.1x faster
23598	A plugin-based Matrix bot system. Python · 8 years old	901	0	0	+3	+110	+16	0	1.2x faster
23599	❄️ Firmware and simulator for Coldcard Hardware Wallet Python · 8 years old	783	0	+2	+8	+121	+16	0	1.2x faster
23600	Realtek rtl8192eu official Linux driver, versions: 5.2.19.1 (master), 5.6.3.1, 5.6.4, 5.11.2.1 and 5.11.2.3 (default) C · 8 years old	558	0	0	+4	+70	+16	0	1.3x faster

Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day. 1 more tracked repositories are still loading their star history and will join the ranking once it is complete.