Early signals · topics
Topics moving first
A topic is listed here when its share of the star growth we measure rose in each of the last 3 weeks, by at least 25% over the window, in a topic with at least 20 tracked repositories every week. Every share is measured inside one fixed cohort of repositories, and its size is printed below. So a move is the topic's, not an effect of which repositories were measured that week. The repositories behind each signal are named, and their Trending counts are a match in time, not a claim that we caused it.
- Repositories measured
- 1.4kwith a star reading in every week of the window: the denominator of every share here
- Weeks in the window
- 527 Sep 2026 to 25 Oct 2026
- Stars in the cohort
- 3.7Mgained across the whole window by those repositories
- Topics listed
- 2 of 71topics with 20+ repositories in the cohort every week; the rest were measured and did not rise
Star history is weekly and our latest reading is the week starting 25 Oct 2026. Topic membership is read from what each repository carries now (last labelled 27 Oct 2026): we cannot retro-label a repository with the topics it did not carry, so a topic that appeared recently has a shorter history than the star series.
Leading topics
The 2 topics that pass, ordered by how much share they gained in the last week.
- deepseek-harness2.92× the share it had 3 weeks earlier
- share of star growth, by week:
- 27 Sep 2026 2.821%
- 4 Oct 2026 2.936%
- 11 Oct 2026 3.931%
- 18 Oct 2026 5.537%
- 25 Oct 2026 8.568%
- 4 of the 42 repositories carrying this topic in the cohort appeared on GitHub Trending after the rise started; 6 have appeared on Trending at any point we have watched.
- Repositories that moved it last week:
- zouyuxuan122/dsh-our-free-model+18.3k this week44.8k totalJavaScript
- Ebony-Vinyl/dsh-our-free-model+18.3k this week44.8k totalJavaScript
- YuJunZhiXue/dsh-purge+6.9k this week9.9k totalJavaScript
deepseek-harness: share of the cohort's star growth rose every week for 3 weeks, from 2.936% (2026-10-04) to 8.568% (2026-10-25). It has 20+ tracked repositories in every one of the 5 weeks we measured.
- deepseek2.80× the share it had 3 weeks earlier
- share of star growth, by week:
- 27 Sep 2026 3.100%
- 4 Oct 2026 3.385%
- 11 Oct 2026 4.845%
- 18 Oct 2026 6.525%
- 25 Oct 2026 9.485%
- 7 of the 49 repositories carrying this topic in the cohort appeared on GitHub Trending after the rise started; 13 have appeared on Trending at any point we have watched.
- Repositories that moved it last week:
- zouyuxuan122/dsh-our-free-model+18.3k this week44.8k totalJavaScript
- Ebony-Vinyl/dsh-our-free-model+18.3k this week44.8k totalJavaScript
- YuJunZhiXue/dsh-purge+6.9k this week9.9k totalJavaScript
deepseek: share of the cohort's star growth rose every week for 3 weeks, from 3.385% (2026-10-04) to 9.485% (2026-10-25). It has 20+ tracked repositories in every one of the 5 weeks we measured.
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