A daily scan of 31 public data sources for things that are rising before they are obvious. Websites, repositories, apps, packages and marketplace plugins, each with the measured change behind it. Filter by source and by window. Nothing below has been shortlisted, and where more than one unrelated source has the same thing moving, the page says so.
Every row is one measured change in one source over one window. Pick the source and the window; nothing has been shortlisted for you. Rows that more than one unrelated source has moving are listed first, because a single signal can be bought and agreement between independent collectors cannot.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Stars went 79 to 101 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 27.8% move. Also rising in Hacker News. 2 unrelated sources have it moving at once, which is the part that is hard to fake.
A Japanese-language short-form drama app, part of the vertical-video serial fiction category that has grown quickly on both mobile stores.
Ratings went 161,669 to 164,029 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 1.5% move. Also rising in Google Play. 2 unrelated sources have it moving at once, which is the part that is hard to fake.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Downloads went 423 to 2,198 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 419.6% move. Hugging Face is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Downloads went 224 to 976 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 335.7% move. Hugging Face is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Stars went 47 to 153 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 225.5% move. GitHub is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
A ten billion vector retrieval benchmark derived from FineWeb, for testing vector search at a scale most benchmarks avoid.
Downloads went 2,208 to 6,562 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 197.2% move. Hugging Face is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Points went 35 to 104 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 197.1% move. Hacker News is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
A Codex skill that turns one sentence into a 3D holographic trading card. It generates four artwork layers covering subject, background, line art and text, assembles a Blender scene with parallax, laser and starlight effects, then packages the result as an interactive Three.js page that can be dragged, flipped and tilted in a browser. It hands back the web page, the Blender project file and rendered stills together, so the card can be reworked by hand rather than regenerated from scratch.
Stars went 344 to 942 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 173.8% move. GitHub is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
A GGUF build of a 27 billion parameter multimodal model that reads images as well as text.
Downloads went 22,128 to 60,343 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 172.7% move. Hugging Face is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Stars went 201 to 432 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, an 114.9% move. GitHub is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Downloads went 24,402 to 52,063 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, an 113.4% move. Hugging Face is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Stars went 180 to 372 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 106.7% move. GitHub is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Stars went 743 to 1,488 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 100.3% move. GitHub is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Traffic rank improved from 315,983 to 275 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 99.9% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Backlink rank improved from 760,945 to 16,601 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 97.8% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Stars went 124 to 243 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 96% move. GitHub is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Downloads went 548 to 1,057 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 92.9% move. Hugging Face is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Backlink rank improved from 569,337 to 41,962 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 92.6% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Mathematical problem solving and dialogue data for training models to reason rather than to recall.
Downloads went 773 to 1,466 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, an 89.7% move. Hugging Face is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Google's time series forecasting model, pretrained so a series can be forecast without training anything first.
Downloads went 144,455 to 271,713 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, an 88.1% move. Hugging Face is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Backlink rank improved from 748,027 to 101,075 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, an 86.5% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Traffic rank improved from 270,796 to 38,555 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, an 85.8% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Code problem solving data with the reasoning shown, split into worked solutions, direct answers and synthesised tasks.
Downloads went 823 to 1,523 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, an 85.1% move. Hugging Face is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Traffic rank improved from 375,047 to 61,461 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, an 83.6% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
A digital video advertising company selling campaigns that run across connected television, desktop and mobile from one buy.
Backlink rank improved from 516,466 to 101,794 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, an 80.3% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Traffic rank improved from 336,230 to 68,127 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 79.7% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Downloads went 312 to 560 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 79.5% move. Hugging Face is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Backlink rank improved from 47,725 to 11,636 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 75.6% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Backlink rank improved from 575,989 to 145,429 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 74.8% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Backlink rank improved from 610,195 to 155,706 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 74.5% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Backlink rank improved from 673,276 to 194,346 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 71.1% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
A fork of opencode that also builds and previews iOS and Android projects.
Stars went 121 to 207 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 71.1% move. GitHub is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Backlink rank improved from 664,822 to 194,203 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 70.8% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Backlink rank improved from 324,572 to 95,663 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 70.5% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Stars went 337 to 567 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 68.2% move. GitHub is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Backlink rank improved from 107,212 to 35,523 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 66.9% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Backlink rank improved from 29,131 to 9,674 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 66.8% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Backlink rank improved from 445,472 to 150,299 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 66.3% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Backlink rank improved from 195,388 to 71,164 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 63.6% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Traffic rank improved from 308,123 to 115,922 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 62.4% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Backlink rank improved from 177,482 to 69,501 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 60.8% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Traffic rank improved from 278,416 to 111,362 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 60% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Traffic rank improved from 278,524 to 111,372 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 60% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Stars went 129 to 206 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 59.7% move. GitHub is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Backlink rank improved from 228,421 to 93,195 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 59.2% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
A human verified benchmark of 1,927 varied physics problems.
Downloads went 520 to 828 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 59.2% move. Hugging Face is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Backlink rank improved from 27,561 to 11,989 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 56.5% move. Majestic is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Traffic rank improved from 191,720 to 88,038 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 54.1% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Stars went 473 to 725 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 53.3% move. GitHub is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Traffic rank improved from 104,957 to 49,958 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 52.4% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Traffic rank improved from 269,005 to 130,534 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 51.5% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Stars went 130 to 196 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 50.8% move. GitHub is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Traffic rank improved from 356,947 to 176,916 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 50.4% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
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Stars went 240 to 361 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 50.4% move. GitHub is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Downloads went 228 to 343 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 50.4% move. Hugging Face is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Traffic rank improved from 13,041 to 6,526 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 50% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Traffic rank improved from 212,427 to 111,753 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 47.4% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Traffic rank improved from 368,884 to 196,413 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 46.8% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Traffic rank improved from 46,949 to 25,029 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 46.7% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Not yet described. The movement below is measured; what this thing is has not been written up.
Traffic rank improved from 308,594 to 164,611 between 7 Sept and 8 Sept, a 46.7% move. Tranco is the only source that has it moving, so nothing here corroborates it.
Every other section counts attention. This one counts money. These are rounds a company has formally disclosed as sold, within fifteen days of the sale, so they have actually closed or are closing rather than being rounds somebody announced. Amounts are the company’s own figures.
Sells AI strategy and organisational alignment work to management teams.
An Iowa bank serving individuals, businesses and farms.
A drug discovery company whose platform combines computation with experiment to shorten the search for new medicines.
Builds cloud infrastructure for AI workloads.
A data and AI company.
Provides disaster recovery for cloud environments, so an application can be brought back after an outage or an attack.
A water utility that owns and runs water, wastewater and recycled water systems, selling the service rather than the equipment.
Turns data into decisions for defence, government and enterprise customers, packaged as applications rather than as a modelling toolkit.
An API that connects accounting software straight to corporate bank accounts, removing the file export and import that usually sits between the two.
Makes antimicrobial nanosurfaces that bond to medical devices, so an implant resists infection rather than relying on drugs given afterwards.
Turns complex deal data into something readable for artist managers, agents and business managers working in live entertainment.
A prognostics company, working on predicting outcomes from data.
Uses AI to route patients to the right specialist care.
A connected health coach, tying together the measurements a person already collects into advice.
How far a company has climbed or slipped over the last 90 days, measured against every other company with an established profile. The position beside each row says where it stands today, and both numbers matter: the same move at position 155 and at position 90,000 are not the same event.
Companies outside the top 100,000 are not listed. Each row carries the date it was last checked.
An education company from Andrew Ng, funded by Coursera, building one to one tutoring that stays with a learner rather than ending with a course.
The community behind the KDE desktop and its applications, one of the two long standing free software desktop environments for Linux.
Designs processors and accelerators for data centre AI, PCs, edge devices and gaming, and is the main competitor to Nvidia and Intel in those markets.
One interface and one bill for hundreds of language models, routing each request to whichever provider is cheapest or fastest for that prompt.
A Taiwanese manufacturer of laptops, phones, monitors, motherboards and networking hardware.
Reports on startups, venture funding and the business of technology.
Builds smartphones designed to be repaired and to last, using fairer sourced materials, as a deliberate answer to the replace it every two years model.
The Chinese technology company behind TikTok and a range of other content platforms.
Stores passwords and secrets for individuals and companies, and manages which people and which AI tools may reach them.
Lets any team automate its own workflows while security and IT keep visibility and control over what those workflows are allowed to do.
Applies formal logic to specification driven software development, founded by researchers from the ERATO MMSD programme.
The University of California San Diego.
A marketplace for short stays in other people's homes, listing millions of properties across more than two hundred countries.
Sells complete server racks with the software already built in, so a company can run cloud style infrastructure on hardware it owns.
A language learning app built around short daily lessons and streaks.
A visual website builder for WordPress that needs no code, used to build sites and online stores.
Makes development tools including IntelliJ IDEA, the main Java IDE, and created the Kotlin language.
An open platform for building and running language model agents, and the framework most teams first reach for when chaining model calls together.
A marketplace for buying and selling secondhand fashion, used mostly by younger shoppers.
Sits in front of a large share of the web providing network security, content delivery and edge compute.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a private research university in Massachusetts founded in 1865 with roughly seven thousand students.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which publishes engineering standards and runs professional development for engineers.
A serverless cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB, aimed at teams that want SQL analytics without infrastructure to run.
Fundraising, donor management and volunteer software for nonprofits.
The online arm of the Costco warehouse chain, selling electronics, furniture, appliances and groceries to members.
A unified platform for data, analytics and AI, covering ETL, warehousing and governance in one place.
An autonomous testing platform that hunts for the bugs conventional test suites miss by exploring a system's behaviour on its own.
Managed hosting for Vitess and Postgres, competing on how far it can scale a relational database without the team operating it.
An open source column oriented database built for analytical queries over very large tables in real time.
A long distance coach network selling cheap intercity travel, with power and wifi on board.
Places advertising on independent websites and apps, handling the demand side so publishers do not sell inventory themselves.
The American site of Klarna, offering instalment payments at checkout and a wider set of money management tools.
A free publishing platform for technology writing, with tens of thousands of contributing authors.
A Belgian research institute in nanoelectronics and digital technology, and one of the main places chip process research happens outside the manufacturers.
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Every number here is a rate of change, never a total. Size is not news. The largest repository on GitHub is not rising, it arrived years ago. What this looks for is movement, and specifically movement that more than one unrelated source noticed on the same day.
That second condition is the whole method. Stars can be bought, backlinks can be built, app installs can be farmed. This project has already killed 2,601 domains for sitting inside link networks, one of which ran to 2,046 sites and covered 98% of everything it tracked on .it. All of them were manufacturing the exact signal one of these sources measures. Faking two unrelated signals at once is far harder work, so a repository seen moving by GitHub and HackerNews, or an app seen by the App Store and Google Play, counts for more than a bigger number in one place.
Whether two sources are genuinely independent is measured rather than assumed. Majestic ranks domains by backlinks and Tranco ranks them by traffic, and the two were treated as one voice for weeks. Comparing their daily movement across 83,000 domains showed no relationship at all, so they now count as two. Any pair that turns out to share data underneath gets folded back into one.
Entries are written to be read rather than scanned. When the evidence is thin, or the story behind it does not hold up, the entry is left out rather than published with a caveat.
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