Daily · star velocity · 2026-10-09

The reverse-engineering agent takes first place as the Rust rebuild of Acrobat enters the chart

Today: the app reverse-engineering agent overtakes the pure-Rust Photoshop rewrite for the top spot, the PS5 porting tool and the model math archive hold the middle, and the Acrobat rebuild joins the four other clean-room Rust apps already on the list, next to a cost-and-evidence life guide and an ask-first coding skill.

Fastest-growing this period

Counts come from GitHub's official stargazers/history endpoint: the stars gained on each day of the window. Project briefs and the reading notes below are editorial additions.

1

morluto/rea : Point your agent at any app and learn how it works
TypeScript
A toolkit that lets your coding agent reverse engineer software without source code: it inspects native binaries through Hopper or Ghidra, JavaScript and Electron apps, .NET assemblies and websites, then explains how a feature works with the evidence and the limits behind each conclusion. Analysis runs locally, and the same tools work straight from your terminal.

+7,062
2

storytold/photocraft : Photoshop rebuilt from scratch in pure Rust, PSD files included
Rust
A clean-room reimplementation of Photoshop written entirely in Rust: layers, masks, adjustment layers, type and brushes, opening, editing and saving real PSD files. Every action is a command, so the same engine can be driven from the interface, the command line, a JSON control channel or an MCP server.

+6,398
3

boykopovar/AnyPS5 : Run PS5 games natively on Linux and Windows, with no emulation layer
C++
Ports PS5 executables by relinking them into the host's native format and reimplementing the system prx libraries for dynamic linking, so nothing is emulated and no separate runtime is needed. A shader recompiler produces validated SPIR-V, SDL controllers map directly, and the compatibility list tracks verified games, led by a 2D platformer at a steady 60 fps on a GTX 1050 Ti.

+3,490
4

storytold/artcraft : An IDE for AI image and video where you block the scene before generating
Rust
ArtCraft is an IDE for interactive AI image and video creation: compose in 2D, block scenes in 3D and pick the models that fit your work, so character identity and camera placement stay repeatable instead of lucky. You can place virtual actors in one consistent environment, pose characters before generating, transfer identity from a posed mannequin, and remove backgrounds.

+2,217
5

eternity4719/HowToLiveBetter : Life advice that logs what you spend, what you gain and how solid the evidence is
HTML
A Chinese guide of practical suggestions on health, money, scams and legal traps, from chronic disease and first aid to rent disputes and workplace compensation. Each entry records what you spend, what you get back and how strong the evidence is, citing only journal papers and official documents, with an online search page for quick lookups.

+2,111
6

storytold/lightcraft : Lightroom rebuilt in pure Rust, from raw development to masking
Rust
A clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Lightroom in pure Rust: a photo library with import and organization, raw development where every edit is non-destructive inside a 32-bit float pipeline, and masking that follows where you point. Native on macOS, Windows and Linux, also in the browser via WebAssembly, and an AI agent can drive the whole edit over MCP.

+1,789
7

openai/math : An open archive of math papers written by an OpenAI model, Lean proofs included
Lean
Math manuscripts and proof artifacts written by an internal OpenAI model while it was tested on open research problems: 722 manuscripts in 372 families, from the irrationality exponent of pi to the 3D Vlasov-Maxwell system. Many results carry Lean formalizations you can check with the bundled comparator; the rest are marked as not yet formalized.

+1,438
8

storytold/pdfcraft : Adobe Acrobat rebuilt from scratch in pure Rust, down to the forms and passwords
Rust
A clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat written entirely in Rust: world scripts, vertical CJK and color emoji render faithfully, pages can be organized, combined and split, and forms, layers, threaded comments and password protection are all there. Every save appends changes and leaves the original bytes untouched.

+1,436
9

storytold/filmcraft : Premiere Pro rebuilt in pure Rust, with editing color and sound
Rust
A clean-room reimplementation of the Premiere Pro workflow in pure Rust: timeline editing with titles and caption tracks, a Lumetri-style color panel, and a full audio stack with track mixing, clip effects such as EQ, dynamics, reverb and denoise, and loudness measured to broadcast standards. Native on macOS, Windows and Linux, plus a WebAssembly build for the browser.

+1,349
10

mattpocock/skills : Make your AI ask the right questions before it writes code
Shell
Give your coding assistant a skill that asks detailed questions before implementation. Use it to clarify vague requirements before the agent builds the wrong thing.

+1,108

Ranking window: 2026-10-08 UTC, full day.

What I would look at first

Reading notes updated 2026-10-09; the ranking above preserves its original reporting window.

This edition ranks 8 October, the most recent fully settled UTC day. morluto/rea moves into first place: point your coding agent at a website, an Electron app, a .NET assembly or a native binary and it comes back with a readable reconstruction, every conclusion carrying the evidence it was drawn from. storytold/photocraft, the clean-room Photoshop rebuilt in pure Rust where every action is a command, slips to second but keeps gaining heavily, and boykopovar/AnyPS5 stays third by relinking PS5 executables into native Linux or Windows programs with no emulation layer.

The middle of the chart is where the Acrobat rebuild appears. storytold/pdfcraft, new today at eight, reimplements Adobe Acrobat in pure Rust: world scripts, vertical CJK and color emoji render faithfully, pages can be organized, combined and split, and forms, layers, threaded comments and password protection are all there, with every save appending changes while the original bytes stay untouched. It joins storytold/artcraft at four, the 3D scene-blocking IDE for image and video generation, and storytold/lightcraft at six, the non-destructive raw developer, while storytold/filmcraft at nine keeps reimplementing the Premiere Pro workflow.

Also holding their ground: eternity4719/HowToLiveBetter at five, which logs what each piece of life advice costs, returns and how solid the evidence is, and openai/math at seven, the open archive of model-written mathematical manuscripts, many with Lean proofs you can verify yourself. mattpocock/skills at ten packages one habit worth adopting: ask detailed questions before writing code so vague requirements surface while they are still cheap to fix. If you only try one today, hand pdfcraft a scanned contract with forms and watch it keep the original file intact.

The reverse-engineering agent takes first place as the Rust rebuild of Acrobat enters the chart

Fastest-growing this period

morluto/rea : Point your agent at any app and learn how it works

storytold/photocraft : Photoshop rebuilt from scratch in pure Rust, PSD files included

boykopovar/AnyPS5 : Run PS5 games natively on Linux and Windows, with no emulation layer

storytold/artcraft : An IDE for AI image and video where you block the scene before generating

eternity4719/HowToLiveBetter : Life advice that logs what you spend, what you gain and how solid the evidence is

storytold/lightcraft : Lightroom rebuilt in pure Rust, from raw development to masking

openai/math : An open archive of math papers written by an OpenAI model, Lean proofs included

storytold/pdfcraft : Adobe Acrobat rebuilt from scratch in pure Rust, down to the forms and passwords

storytold/filmcraft : Premiere Pro rebuilt in pure Rust, with editing color and sound

mattpocock/skills : Make your AI ask the right questions before it writes code

What I would look at first