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GitHub Trending Report — August 17, 2026

Today's snapshot of what the open-source world is starring. 4 repositories made the daily trending list.

Repository of the day

basecamp/omarchy — Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux

Trending today

Rank Repository Language Total stars Stars today Description
1 cordiverse/cordis TypeScript 5,157 +720 Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability
2 basecamp/omarchy Shell 25,627 +270 Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux
3 public-apis/public-apis Python 462,332 +1,588 A collective list of free APIs
4 cactus-compute/needle Python 6,824 +443 14MB foundation model for tiny devices; phones, wearables, smart home, and robots.

Star jumps detected

  • cordiverse/cordis gained +466 stars in the last day. Meta-Framework of Spatiotemporal Composability
  • cathrynlavery/diagram-design gained +422 stars in the last day. 29 editorial diagram types for Claude Code. Self-contained HTML + SVG. No shadows, no Mermaid-slop.
  • byoungd/up gained +265 stars in the last day (trailing average: 82/day). An advanced guide which might benefit you a lot 🎉 . 人生进阶指南 离谱的人生 离谱的英语学习指南/英语学习教程/英语学习/学英语
  • anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness gained +152 stars in the last day (trailing average: 17/day). Skills for threat modeling, scanning, triage, patching, plus an autonomous scanning harness you can
  • NawfalMotii79/PLFM_RADAR gained +132 stars in the last day (trailing average: 38/day). Open-source, low-cost 10.5 GHz PLFM phased array RADAR system
  • Nagi-ovo/voyager gained +83 stars in the last day (trailing average: 13/day). Enhancement suite for Gemini, AI Studio, Claude & ChatGPT — plus a prompt manager for any web UI, De

New on the radar

  • basecamp/omarchy (Shell, 25,627 stars) — Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux

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