Today's GitHub repos: Sept 27, 2026

paperclipai/paperclip stays at rank 1 on GitHub for September 27, 2026, with 88,020 stars on the GitHub API at 2026-09-27T08:08:54Z. NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer is the highest new entrant, landing at rank 3 with 4,840 stars. Seven of ten names are new versus September 26, while vectorize-io/hindsight rose from 3 to 2 and dream-num/univer rose from 6 to 4. The snapshot is 2026-09-27T08:01:39.492347.

paperclipai/paperclip
Open-source app for managing agents at work, still rank 1. GitHub lists 88,020 stars and 15,499 forks, up from 85,594 stars noted on September 26. The repo updated at 2026-09-27T08:08:54Z.
vectorize-io/hindsight
Agent memory project that climbed from rank 3 to 2. GitHub lists 34,101 stars. The README frames it as agent memory that learns.
NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer
NVIDIA library for quantization, distillation, pruning, and speculative decoding, new at rank 3. GitHub lists 4,840 stars and 676 forks, updated 2026-09-27T08:02:53Z.
dream-num/univer
Spreadsheet, docs, and slides runtime that rose from rank 6 to 4. GitHub lists 19,759 stars. Upstream marketing copy is omitted here because it trips the banned-word list.
tensorflow/tensorflow
Google's open-source machine learning framework, new at rank 5. GitHub lists 200,511 stars and 77,669 forks.
rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch
AI engineering course repo, new at rank 6. GitHub lists 58,592 stars. The short tagline is learn, build, and ship.
openbao/openbao
Secrets, certificates, and key management fork community, new at rank 7. GitHub lists 8,067 stars.
block/buzz
Block hive-mind communication platform, new at rank 8. GitHub lists 34,901 stars.
microsoft/vscode
Visual Studio Code editor, new at rank 9. GitHub lists 193,124 stars and 43,607 forks.
zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill
Authorized reverse-engineering skill pack, new at rank 10. GitHub lists 38,172 stars. Treat it as a research toolkit listing, not a how-to.

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What changed on GitHub since yesterday

New entrants: NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer (3), tensorflow/tensorflow (5), rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch (6), openbao/openbao (7), block/buzz (8), microsoft/vscode (9), zhaoxuya520/reverse-skill (10). Big movers (5+ ranks): none inside the overlapping names. Drop-offs versus September 26: anthropics/claude-plugins-official, obra/superpowers, mattpocock/skills, anthropics/skills, androoAGI/starnet, derv82/wifit3, kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way. Holdovers: paperclip rank 1, hindsight 3 to 2, univer 6 to 4.

What today's GitHub trends reveal

The September 27 GitHub ten rotated from a Claude-skills cluster into a mixed agent-runtime and core-ML board. paperclip still leads, but NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer at rank 3 plus tensorflow at rank 5 pull established training infrastructure back into the public list. Seven drop-offs include anthropics/skills and claude-plugins-official, so the September 26 skills pack wave cooled in a single snapshot. Star counts span 4,840 (Model-Optimizer) to 200,511 (tensorflow), which means rank here is daily attention, not lifetime popularity.

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