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How fast hashcat/hashcat is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

Activity and trending

Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 7 – Nov 6, 2026

Stars +560 in 61 days

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Forks +102 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 230 in 61 days

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Stars, forks, merged pull requests and Trendshift Trending rank, by day
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Mon, Sep 7, 2026+8+33Not trending
Tue, Sep 8, 2026+12+30Not trending
Wed, Sep 9, 2026+2+01Not trending
Thu, Sep 10, 2026+8+05Not trending
Fri, Sep 11, 2026+7+07Not trending
Sat, Sep 12, 2026+11+111Not trending
Sun, Sep 13, 2026+7+26Not trending
Mon, Sep 14, 2026+3+34Not trending
Tue, Sep 15, 2026+0+07Not trending
Wed, Sep 16, 2026+8+22Not trending
Thu, Sep 17, 2026+8+23Not trending
Fri, Sep 18, 2026+11+03Not trending
Sat, Sep 19, 2026+10+217Not trending
Sun, Sep 20, 2026+4+18Not trending
Mon, Sep 21, 2026+10+12Not trending
Tue, Sep 22, 2026+10+15Not trending
Wed, Sep 23, 2026+7+16Not trending
Thu, Sep 24, 2026+12+16Not trending
Fri, Sep 25, 2026+9+01Not trending
Sat, Sep 26, 2026+8+00Not trending
Sun, Sep 27, 2026+10+24Not trending
Mon, Sep 28, 2026+11+210Not trending
Tue, Sep 29, 2026+9+10Not trending
Wed, Sep 30, 2026+13+116Not trending
Thu, Oct 1, 2026+13+13Not trending
Fri, Oct 2, 2026+4+10Not trending
Sat, Oct 3, 2026+10+04Not trending
Sun, Oct 4, 2026+4+26Not trending
Mon, Oct 5, 2026+1+18Not trending
Tue, Oct 6, 2026+2+13Not trending
Wed, Oct 7, 2026+6+33Not trending
Thu, Oct 8, 2026+5+15Not trending
Fri, Oct 9, 2026+7+03Not trending
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Sun, Oct 11, 2026+5+17Not trending
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Sat, Oct 17, 2026+7+00Not trending
Sun, Oct 18, 2026+4+41Not trending
Mon, Oct 19, 2026+12+22Not trending
Tue, Oct 20, 2026+10+01Not trending
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Thu, Oct 22, 2026+7+20Not trending
Fri, Oct 23, 2026+4+11Not trending
Sat, Oct 24, 2026+2+29Not trending
Sun, Oct 25, 2026+26+63Not trending
Mon, Oct 26, 2026+70+91#17
Tue, Oct 27, 2026+12+54Not trending
Wed, Oct 28, 2026+15+11Not trending
Thu, Oct 29, 2026+9+03Not trending
Fri, Oct 30, 2026+18+11Not trending
Sat, Oct 31, 2026+13+22Not trending
Sun, Nov 1, 2026+8+41Not trending
Mon, Nov 2, 2026+11+33Not trending
Tue, Nov 3, 2026+18+63Not trending
Wed, Nov 4, 2026+18+16Not trending
Thu, Nov 5, 2026+7+61Not trending
Fri, Nov 6, 2026+2+00Not trending
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    • GitHub trending history

    Where the repository ranked on GitHub Trending, one dot for each day it was on a list

    Aug 5, 2025Best #9

    #1#5#10#15#20#25
    Top 10
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    Mentions and achievements

    Where people are talking about hashcat/hashcat, and every badge it has earned
    1. Nov 31 post

      • Massive, really, speedup on SCRYPT, just pushed to master and queued for v8.1.0. Impacts hash-modes incl. Android FDE, Ethereum Wallet, gocryptfs and in general all hash-modes based on SCRYPT. Custom…

        Read full on X, posted by @hashcat

        @hashcat · x.com

    2. 2 months earlier
    3. Sep 141 post

      • Top 10 hacking tools but open source

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