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 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
20251	:snowboarder: EJDB2 — Embeddable JSON Database engine C library. Simple XPath like query language (JQL). C · 14 years old	1,487	0	0	+2	+30	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20252	Node.js module that automatically follows HTTP(S) redirects JavaScript · 13 years old	585	0	+2	+5	+23	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20253	gradle-release is a plugin for providing a Maven-like release process for projects using Gradle Groovy · 13 years old	889	0	+1	+1	+13	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20254	Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. C · 13 years old	6,288	+1	+6	+35	+426	-2	8	1.0x, steady
20255	A Marketplace for JMeter Plugins Java · 13 years old	589	0	0	0	+18	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20256	A list of locations becomes a map plus a synced list, in a few lines. TypeScript · 13 years old	989	0	0	-1	0	-2	0	0.0x, slowing
20257	WebSharper - Full-stack, functional, reactive web apps and microservices in F# and C# F# · 13 years old	635	0	0	+1	+25	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20258	Meteor Collection Hooks JavaScript · 13 years old	656	0	0	0	0	-2	0	0.0x, slowing
20259	eXtended Keccak Code Package C · 13 years old	667	0	0	+3	+43	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20260	Convenient and performant logging library for Scala wrapping SLF4J. Scala · 13 years old	923	0	0	0	+11	-2	0	0.8x, slowing
20261	A Python package for performing pore network modeling of porous media Python · 13 years old	547	0	+1	+6	+50	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20262	ATLauncher is a Launcher for Minecraft which integrates multiple different ModPacks to allow you to download and install ModPacks easily and quickly. Java · 13 years old	861	0	+3	+7	+111	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20263	nwipe secure disk eraser C · 13 years old	1,248	0	+5	+18	+243	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20264	Auth0 headless browser sdk JavaScript · 13 years old	1,064	0	0	+2	+44	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20265	GeoMesa is a suite of tools for working with big geo-spatial data in a distributed fashion. Scala · 13 years old	1,499	0	0	0	+39	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20266	Research prototype tool for modular formal verification of C, Rust and Java programs Rust · 12 years old	528	0	0	+11	+86	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20267	A Jenkins plugin for posting notifications to a Slack channel Java · 12 years old	672	0	0	0	+4	-2	0	0.7x, slowing
20268	Animated wheel navigation JavaScript library based on Raphaël.js (SVG/VML). It can be a pie menu (radial menu, circular menu) and many more. JavaScript · 12 years old	704	0	0	0	+4	-2	0	0.7x, slowing
20269	Customize Skin, Cape and Elytra in Minecraft 1.8-1.21 Java · 12 years old	612	0	-1	+2	+62	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20270	jMetal: a framework for multi-objective optimization with metaheuristics Java · 12 years old	561	0	0	+3	+27	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20271	SourceMod - Source Engine Scripting and Administration C++ · 12 years old	1,156	0	+1	+9	+99	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20272	The code examples used in Programming Scala, 2nd and 3rd Editions (O'Reilly) Scala · 12 years old	649	0	0	0	+8	-2	0	0.8x, slowing
20273	A grotesque sans. HTML · 12 years old	1,706	0	+1	+4	+59	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20274	Bluetooth support for the Web. Bikeshed · 12 years old	1,447	0	-1	0	+33	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20275	Gideros Release version C · 12 years old	615	0	0	+2	+26	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20276	Reactive Flux built with ImmutableJS data structures. Framework agnostic. JavaScript · 12 years old	2,267	0	+1	+1	+27	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20277	Managed software installation for macOS — Swift · 12 years old	3,482	0	+5	+14	+207	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20278	The Axelor Open Suite based on Axelor Open Platform Java · 12 years old	985	0	0	+7	+83	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20279	Shopify theme development command line tool. Go · 12 years old	1,325	0	0	+5	+78	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20280	:globe_with_meridians: The Babel documentation website TypeScript · 12 years old	778	0	0	+3	+21	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20281	Prometheus documentation: content and static site generator TypeScript · 11 years old	727	0	+2	+7	+38	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20282	Heroku CLI TypeScript · 11 years old	886	0	0	0	+27	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20283	Alpakka Kafka connector - Alpakka is a Reactive Enterprise Integration library for Java and Scala, based on Reactive Streams and Akka. Scala · 11 years old	1,421	0	0	+1	+11	-2	0	0.8x, slowing
20284	A macro to generate structures which behave like bitflags Rust · 11 years old	1,172	+1	+1	+9	+114	-2	8	1.0x, steady
20285	System installer for Fedora, RHEL and other distributions Python · 11 years old	646	0	0	+7	+59	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20286	Create an index on a compressed text file C++ · 11 years old	659	0	0	+1	+19	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20287	Barebone MQTT broker that can run on any stream server, the node way JavaScript · 11 years old	1,981	0	+2	+6	+102	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20288	Character generator for Shadowrun 5th edition C# · 11 years old	636	0	-1	0	+22	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20289	GNU/Linux software to (hopefully) give TAS tools to games C++ · 11 years old	600	0	+2	+4	+58	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20290	Microsoft Application Insights SDK for JavaScript TypeScript · 11 years old	686	0	0	+1	+23	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20291	Software for add or remove tracker from torrent files. Pascal · 11 years old	573	0	+2	+4	+39	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20292	Refinement types for Scala Scala · 11 years old	1,731	0	-1	0	+23	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20293	A cross platform C2/post-exploitation framework. Rust · 11 years old	730	0	+1	+15	+49	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20294	Create a Microservice in Rails with minimal ceremony Ruby · 11 years old	544	0	0	0	+1	-2	0	0.3x, slowing
20295	FOSSASIA Website https://fossasia.org Less · 11 years old	1,914	0	+1	+5	+27	-2	0	0.9x, slowing
20296	JSON:API Serializer and Query Handler for Elixir Elixir · 11 years old	511	0	0	0	+9	-2	0	0.8x, slowing
20297	Type definitions, parsing, and analysis for the minidump file format. Rust · 11 years old	516	0	0	+2	+46	-2	0	1.0x, steady
20298	An API to interact with the popular messaging app Discord PHP · 11 years old	1,086	+1	+1	+7	+66	-2	8	1.0x, steady
20299	Adblock Fast is a faster ad blocker for Windows, Android, iOS, Chrome, and Opera. Objective-C · 11 years old	786	+1	0	0	+29	-2	8	0.9x, slowing
20300	Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime is a set of APIs for introspecting processes and dumps. C# · 11 years old	1,168	0	0	+2	+66	-2	0	1.0x, steady

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