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Blowing up All projects blowing up

# Project Verdict Hype Reality Gap Stars gained, 7d Stars gainedStars gained over the window named in the column header. 24h is the change since our reading from at least 24 hours ago, 7d the change since our reading from at least 7 days ago. Blowing up and Hot on Hacker News show 7d, New to our radar shows 24h. More on the methodology page and pace Velocity (Nx usual pace)This week's star gain divided by the project's usual weekly gain. The usual gain is the average weekly gain over the 4 weeks before (days 8 to 35 ago), counted as at least 10 stars. 2.0x means twice the usual pace. Without a reading from 35 days ago, the ranking assumes 2% of the stars the project had 7 days ago as its usual weekly gain. More on the methodology page Signal SignalOne label per project that states a measured fact. It is not a verdict. The first rule that matches wins, and a missing number never triggers a rule. Archived: The repo is archived by its owner. Gone quiet: No commits in more than 90 days. Surging: At least 1,000 stars gained in 7 days, or at least 300 in 24 hours. Accelerating: This week's star gain is at least 3x the project's usual weekly gain (average of the 4 weeks before), and at least 50 stars. Slipping: The star count fell over 7 days, or gained nothing in a week when it usually gains. Cooling off: Usual weekly gain is at least 50 stars and this week's is under 40% of it. More talk than stars: At least 150 Hacker News points in 7 days and fewer than 200 stars gained in 7 days. Quiet climber: At least 300 stars gained in 7 days and no Hacker News points. Being talked about: At least 50 Hacker News points in 7 days. Watching: None of the above. Nothing stands out yet. More on the methodology page

1 DuarteSantos8/openGym

Self-hosted gym & body-weight tracker — plan routines, log workouts (supersets, warm-ups,...

REAL 94 78 +16 +5,182 169.2x Surging

77% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. No Hacker News posts in the last 7 days.

2 eolix/photosuite

A desktop image editor, faithful to classic Adobe Photoshop, with native PSD/PSB compatibi...

OVERHYPED 89 28 +62 +617 61.7x Being talked about

70% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. 181 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

3 allenv0/SCM

Deep AI search for every photo and every frame of video in any folder on macOS

OVERHYPED 87 18 +68 +423 42.3x Being talked about

100% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. 177 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

4 FeSens/openTPU

An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI: RTL, ISA, simulator, compiler and profiler...

OVERHYPED 87 46 +42 +411 41.1x Being talked about

94% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. 332 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

5 anteloc/ldraw-nova

Agent tooling for generative LEGO models building, built with Astra and Opus 5.5, powered...

OVERHYPED 83 22 +61 +302 30.2x Being talked about

100% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. 166 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

6 kvoltmer/Audionaut

Audionaut professional audio editing and audio recording

MID 80 54 +26 +230 23.0x Being talked about

100% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. 153 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

7 explaindb/explaindb

A Database System built for Understandability

OVERHYPED 75 24 +51 +150 15.0x Being talked about

100% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. 78 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

8 Vibra-Ingenn/Janus

Janus is a API router for AI models written in Go and has a Vulkan Model runner

OVERHYPED 74 9 +65 +129 12.9x Being talked about

100% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. 106 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

9 graphene-data/graphene

Turn your coding agent into a world-class data analyst

OVERHYPED 73 36 +37 +123 12.3x Watching

58% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. 32 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

10 ahmetomerv/photoc

Command-line tools for photographers.

OVERHYPED 71 32 +38 +111 11.1x Being talked about

100% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. 63 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

11 FalkorDB/FalkorDB

A super fast Graph Database uses GraphBLAS under the hood for its sparse adjacency matrix...

MID 74 57 +17 +1,505 10.3x Surging

19% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. Gaining 10.3x its usual weekly pace. No Hacker News posts in the last 7 days.

12 project-minigraf/minigraf

Embedded graph memory for AI agents, mobile apps, and the browser.

MID 70 53 +17 +100 10.0x Watching

73% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. 40 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

13 rsutcliffe/nightwatch

Free macOS menu-bar app for astrophotography: finds tonight's clear window, ranks your tar...

REAL 69 76 -7 +84 8.4x Being talked about

98% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. 86 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

14 TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS

Telegram-iOS

MID 15 18 -3 +178 7.6x Accelerating

2% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. Gaining 7.6x its usual weekly pace. No Hacker News posts in the last 7 days.

15 NVIDIA/OpenShell

OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents.

REAL 95 96 -2 +4,377 7.1x Surging

29% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. Gaining 7.1x its usual weekly pace. 2 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

16 caddyserver/caddy

Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

MID 74 52 +22 +1,334 6.2x Surging

2% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. Gaining 6.2x its usual weekly pace. No Hacker News posts in the last 7 days.

17 PowderworksCode/headstart

Start dependent crates before their dependencies finish type-checking

OVERHYPED 67 30 +38 +57 5.7x More talk than stars

100% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. 155 Hacker News points in the last 7 days.

18 tinyhumansai/openhuman

OpenHuman is the fastest, cheapest, most efficient open-source agent harness. Written in R...

REAL 75 93 -18 +1,456 5.7x Surging

4% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. Gaining 5.7x its usual weekly pace. No Hacker News posts in the last 7 days.

19 earthtojake/text-to-cad

Give your agent CAD superpowers.

REAL 79 90 -11 +1,816 5.5x Surging

10% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. No Hacker News posts in the last 7 days.

20 mvschwarz/openrig

Build your own network of agents from Claude Code, Codex and Pi: persistent teams with rol...

REAL 93 92 +1 +3,151 5.0x Surging

55% of its stars arrived in the last 7 days. Gaining 5.0x its usual weekly pace. No Hacker News posts in the last 7 days.

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Overhyped All overhyped

# Project Verdict Hype Reality Gap Stars gained, 7d Stars gainedStars gained over the window named in the column header. 24h is the change since our reading from at least 24 hours ago, 7d the change since our reading from at least 7 days ago. Blowing up and Hot on Hacker News show 7d, New to our radar shows 24h. More on the methodology page Signal SignalOne label per project that states a measured fact. It is not a verdict. The first rule that matches wins, and a missing number never triggers a rule. Archived: The repo is archived by its owner. Gone quiet: No commits in more than 90 days. Surging: At least 1,000 stars gained in 7 days, or at least 300 in 24 hours. Accelerating: This week's star gain is at least 3x the project's usual weekly gain (average of the 4 weeks before), and at least 50 stars. Slipping: The star count fell over 7 days, or gained nothing in a week when it usually gains. Cooling off: Usual weekly gain is at least 50 stars and this week's is under 40% of it. More talk than stars: At least 150 Hacker News points in 7 days and fewer than 200 stars gained in 7 days. Quiet climber: At least 300 stars gained in 7 days and no Hacker News points. Being talked about: At least 50 Hacker News points in 7 days. Watching: None of the above. Nothing stands out yet. More on the methodology page

1 cloudflare/security-audit-skill

A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-...

OVERHYPED 99 12 +86 +2,691 Surging

2 BurntSushi/ripgrep

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitigno...

OVERHYPED 85 7 +79 +207 Watching

3 chasmlol/SkyCraft

Play Skyrim as a Minecraft player: Minecraft physics, inventory, blocks and combat inside...

OVERHYPED 93 17 +77 - Watching

4 allenv0/SCM

Deep AI search for every photo and every frame of video in any folder on macOS

OVERHYPED 87 18 +68 +423 Being talked about

5 ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills

A curated list of awesome Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI wo...

OVERHYPED 73 5 +68 +818 Quiet climber

Sleepers All sleepers

# Project Verdict Hype Reality Gap Stars gained, 7d Stars gainedStars gained over the window named in the column header. 24h is the change since our reading from at least 24 hours ago, 7d the change since our reading from at least 7 days ago. Blowing up and Hot on Hacker News show 7d, New to our radar shows 24h. More on the methodology page Signal SignalOne label per project that states a measured fact. It is not a verdict. The first rule that matches wins, and a missing number never triggers a rule. Archived: The repo is archived by its owner. Gone quiet: No commits in more than 90 days. Surging: At least 1,000 stars gained in 7 days, or at least 300 in 24 hours. Accelerating: This week's star gain is at least 3x the project's usual weekly gain (average of the 4 weeks before), and at least 50 stars. Slipping: The star count fell over 7 days, or gained nothing in a week when it usually gains. Cooling off: Usual weekly gain is at least 50 stars and this week's is under 40% of it. More talk than stars: At least 150 Hacker News points in 7 days and fewer than 200 stars gained in 7 days. Quiet climber: At least 300 stars gained in 7 days and no Hacker News points. Being talked about: At least 50 Hacker News points in 7 days. Watching: None of the above. Nothing stands out yet. More on the methodology page

1 github/gh-aw

GitHub Agentic Workflows

SLEEPER 12 98 -86 +107 Watching

2 is-a-dev/register

Grab your own sweet-looking '.is-a.dev' subdomain.

SLEEPER 10 94 -84 +79 Watching

3 ai-dynamo/dynamo

A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework

SLEEPER 8 91 -83 +62 Watching

4 apache/datafusion

Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine

SLEEPER 4 87 -83 +33 Watching

5 macro-inc/macro

Macro is a unified workspace for teams: email, chat, docs, tasks, agents, calls, and CRM —...

SLEEPER 12 95 -82 +102 Watching

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# Project Verdict Hype Reality Gap Stars gained, 7d Stars gainedStars gained over the window named in the column header. 24h is the change since our reading from at least 24 hours ago, 7d the change since our reading from at least 7 days ago. Blowing up and Hot on Hacker News show 7d, New to our radar shows 24h. More on the methodology page and HN points HN pointsHacker News points added up across posts that mention the project, published in the last 7 days. Signal SignalOne label per project that states a measured fact. It is not a verdict. The first rule that matches wins, and a missing number never triggers a rule. Archived: The repo is archived by its owner. Gone quiet: No commits in more than 90 days. Surging: At least 1,000 stars gained in 7 days, or at least 300 in 24 hours. Accelerating: This week's star gain is at least 3x the project's usual weekly gain (average of the 4 weeks before), and at least 50 stars. Slipping: The star count fell over 7 days, or gained nothing in a week when it usually gains. Cooling off: Usual weekly gain is at least 50 stars and this week's is under 40% of it. More talk than stars: At least 150 Hacker News points in 7 days and fewer than 200 stars gained in 7 days. Quiet climber: At least 300 stars gained in 7 days and no Hacker News points. Being talked about: At least 50 Hacker News points in 7 days. Watching: None of the above. Nothing stands out yet. More on the methodology page

1 openai/math

Lean, created Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 100 39 +26 to +78 - 1,397 pts Being talked about

2 szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font

Photo-based reconstruction of classic Commodore 64 keycap lettering, with desktop fonts, w...

TOO EARLY 100 95 +4 to +61 - 357 pts Being talked about

3 boykopovar/AnyPS5

Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows

TOO EARLY 99 99 +1 to +54 - 336 pts Being talked about

4 FeSens/openTPU

An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI: RTL, ISA, simulator, compiler and profiler...

OVERHYPED 87 46 +42 +411 332 pts Being talked about

5 eolix/photosuite

A desktop image editor, faithful to classic Adobe Photoshop, with native PSD/PSB compatibi...

OVERHYPED 89 28 +62 +617 181 pts Being talked about

6 allenv0/SCM

Deep AI search for every photo and every frame of video in any folder on macOS

OVERHYPED 87 18 +68 +423 177 pts Being talked about

7 M-Abozaid/esp32-c3-adblock

Pi-hole-class DNS ad-blocker on a $2 ESP32-C3 (no PSRAM): 537k domains as 40-bit FNV-1a ha...

TOO EARLY 98 32 +27 to +78 - 176 pts Being talked about

8 anteloc/ldraw-nova

Agent tooling for generative LEGO models building, built with Astra and Opus 5.5, powered...

OVERHYPED 83 22 +61 +302 166 pts Being talked about

9 PowderworksCode/headstart

Start dependent crates before their dependencies finish type-checking

OVERHYPED 67 30 +38 +57 155 pts More talk than stars

10 kvoltmer/Audionaut

Audionaut professional audio editing and audio recording

MID 80 54 +26 +230 153 pts Being talked about

11 snuri00/psp-web-recomp

PSP games in the browser without an emulator: static recompilation to WebAssembly, an HLE...

TOO EARLY 98 55 +15 to +71 - 128 pts Being talked about

12 storytold/photocraft

An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust

REAL 100 75 +24 - 126 pts Being talked about

13 Vibra-Ingenn/Janus

Janus is a API router for AI models written in Go and has a Vulkan Model runner

OVERHYPED 74 9 +65 +129 106 pts Being talked about

14 kitao/pyxel

A retro game engine for Python

OVERHYPED 81 16 +64 +127 105 pts Being talked about

15 docker/docker-agent

AI Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker Engineering

TOO EARLY 97 94 +2 to +59 - 94 pts Being talked about

16 Queuingtheorydotcom/11SquaresFormalized

Lean formalization of the optimality proof of the 11 square packing

TOO EARLY 97 30 +27 to +77 - 91 pts Being talked about

17 dfd-tud/deda

Python, created Feb 2018

OVERHYPED 67 3 +65 +65 87 pts Gone quiet

18 rsutcliffe/nightwatch

Free macOS menu-bar app for astrophotography: finds tonight's clear window, ranks your tar...

REAL 69 76 -7 +84 86 pts Being talked about

19 explaindb/explaindb

A Database System built for Understandability

OVERHYPED 75 24 +51 +150 78 pts Being talked about

20 ahmetomerv/photoc

Command-line tools for photographers.

OVERHYPED 71 32 +38 +111 63 pts Being talked about

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# Project Verdict Hype Reality Gap Stars gained, 24h Stars gainedStars gained over the window named in the column header. 24h is the change since our reading from at least 24 hours ago, 7d the change since our reading from at least 7 days ago. Blowing up and Hot on Hacker News show 7d, New to our radar shows 24h. More on the methodology page Signal SignalOne label per project that states a measured fact. It is not a verdict. The first rule that matches wins, and a missing number never triggers a rule. Archived: The repo is archived by its owner. Gone quiet: No commits in more than 90 days. Surging: At least 1,000 stars gained in 7 days, or at least 300 in 24 hours. Accelerating: This week's star gain is at least 3x the project's usual weekly gain (average of the 4 weeks before), and at least 50 stars. Slipping: The star count fell over 7 days, or gained nothing in a week when it usually gains. Cooling off: Usual weekly gain is at least 50 stars and this week's is under 40% of it. More talk than stars: At least 150 Hacker News points in 7 days and fewer than 200 stars gained in 7 days. Quiet climber: At least 300 stars gained in 7 days and no Hacker News points. Being talked about: At least 50 Hacker News points in 7 days. Watching: None of the above. Nothing stands out yet. More on the methodology page

1 ranxianglei/billion-context

稳定可用 A context-compression plugin for small context windows (a 100K context is enough), to...

first seen 1h ago, repo created 6 Aug 2026

TOO EARLY 39 77 -50 to +7 - Watching

2 storytold/cadcraft

CADCraft: computer-aided design and drafting — an open-source, clean-room AutoCAD-style ap...

first seen 2h ago, repo created 7 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 39 86 -53 to +3 - Watching

3 openqodex/openqodex

Open source AI code review for Claude Code and Codex, before you push. Scanners (SAST, sec...

first seen 2h ago, repo created 2 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 39 40 -35 to +16 - Watching

4 docker/docker-agent

AI Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker Engineering

first seen 2h ago, repo created 1 Sep 2025

TOO EARLY 97 94 +2 to +59 - Being talked about

5 TerseAI/durable-actors

Durable Actors

first seen 2h ago, repo created 30 Aug 2026

TOO EARLY 95 42 +21 to +72 - Watching

6 storytold/wordcraft

An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust

first seen 3h ago, repo created 7 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 39 86 -53 to +3 - Watching

7 AL-255/FM-1-RE

Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware

first seen 3h ago, repo created 19 Jul 2026

TOO EARLY 96 1 - Being talked about

8 snuri00/psp-web-recomp

PSP games in the browser without an emulator: static recompilation to WebAssembly, an HLE...

first seen 5h ago, repo created 7 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 98 55 +15 to +71 - Being talked about

9 akawashiro/procinsh

ProcInSh is a web-based process inspector for Linux.

first seen 5h ago, repo created 21 Sep 2026

TOO EARLY 96 61 +12 to +68 - Watching

10 LoreanXavier/pt-pc

Native PC port of P.T. (runs from your own PS4 game files)

first seen 5h ago, repo created 7 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 39 52 -42 to +12 - Watching

11 Queuingtheorydotcom/11SquaresFormalized

Lean formalization of the optimality proof of the 11 square packing

first seen 5h ago, repo created 30 Sep 2026

TOO EARLY 97 30 +27 to +77 - Being talked about

12 fxgl/steamac

Valve's official ARM64 SteamOS in a lightweight VM on Apple Silicon: libkrun + Venus + Mol...

first seen 6h ago, repo created 4 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 39 63 -44 to +11 - Watching

13 Stellar-tradehub/stellar-trade

Stellar prediction-market prototype: buy a YES/NO position, sell by reducing it, and inspe...

first seen 7h ago, repo created 7 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 39 84 -52 to +4 - Watching

14 peterretief/yggstore

Sharded, encrypted storage between friends over Yggdrasil: lend each other disk space, sen...

first seen 7h ago, repo created 5 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 95 49 +16 to +69 - Watching

15 Local-Settle/local-settle-backend

Open-source Stellar and Soroban API for peer-to-peer USDC settlement, wallet authenticatio...

first seen 7h ago, repo created 7 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 39 88 -54 to +3 - Watching

16 Local-Settle/local-settle-frontend

Open-source peer-to-peer payments on Stellar and Soroban. Connect a wallet, trade USDC, an...

first seen 7h ago, repo created 7 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 39 87 -54 to +3 - Watching

17 Stellar-tradehub/stellar-trade-contracts

Soroban smart contracts for Stellar Trade: pooled XLM markets, settlement, referrals, lead...

first seen 7h ago, repo created 7 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 39 85 -53 to +4 - Watching

18 nullmoth/nvidia-macos-driver

Metal driver for NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards on macOS 15 Sequoia (Intel / OpenCore). Free, so...

first seen 7h ago, repo created 7 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 94 95 -1 to +55 - Watching

19 nickvasilescu/bops

Bops: a team of AI bots that run your business ops, each with its own computer, email and...

first seen 8h ago, repo created 6 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 39 34 -33 to +18 - Watching

20 pingdotgg/ts-rust

An experimental Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler (tsc)

first seen 8h ago, repo created 7 Oct 2026

TOO EARLY 92 98 -5 to +49 - Watching

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