/weekly lists the ten GitHub repositories that gained the most stars in each complete week. Because "trending" lists are usually opaque, here is exactly how ours works, and the data is downloadable.
Method. We take daily snapshots of star counts for the projects tracked here. For each week we compare the snapshot nearest the Monday boundary with the one nearest the Sunday boundary; both must fall within 36 hours of the boundary. If either one is missing for a project, the project is dropped for that week rather than estimated. Archived, mirrored and unlisted repositories are excluded. A week only enters the archive once it has ten qualifying projects. Details are on /ranking-methodology.
What nine weeks showed (2026-07-27 through 2026-09-21, published as CSV at /data/star-growth):
- 90 ranking slots were filled by 47 distinct projects.
- 30 projects, 64%, appeared exactly once.
- Mean overlap between consecutive weeks was 4.9 out of 10, ranging from 2 to 6.
- The longest runs were seven weeks, by three projects:
mattpocock/skills,stablyai/orcaandDietrichGebert/ponytail. All three dropped out in the week of 2026-09-14;stablyai/orcawas back the week after.
The overlap number is the interesting one. Half the list turns over every week, which is a lot of churn for "what developers care about". We read it as: star growth measures attention, not adoption, and it says more about launch weeks than about usage.
Mistakes in the data or the method belong in Site Feedback; questions about the numbers belong here.