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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Dhruv Jani

Oct 31

Every Codebase Has a '// DO NOT TOUCH' File. I Built an AI Necromancer to Summon the Ghost of the Developer Who Wrote It 💀🔮

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #opensource #ai

12 min read

Puneet Kumar Mishra

Nov 1

CROWDWIDE V2 IS HERE!! 🔥 | An Accidental Founder's Journey 😂

#discuss #webdev #buildinpublic #opensource

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2 min read

Born from airport boredom and spec quirks

Sylwia Laskowska

Oct 29

Yes, {} + [] = 0. No, JavaScript Isn’t Broken

#javascript #webdev #node #programming

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5 min read

Community sharing badges and performance wins

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Oct 30

What was your win this week?

#weeklyretro

1 min read

LLMs miss joint state math that simple code spots

Ayush Singh

Oct 31

A Two-Line Function Caught AI Collusion Better Than the AI Did

#ai #agents #airesearch #machinelearning

8 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Soumyadeep Dey

Nov 1

My Local AI Invented 162 Python Packages. I Reran Everything From Scratch, and 161 Came Back.

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #halloween

21 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Ashley Childress

Nov 1

Gravespeaker: Giving the Person Behind the Headstone a Voice

#devchallenge #hf26challenge

13 min read

Driven by reader feedback to fix flaws

Jessica Doering

Oct 31

I Retested My MoE Offloading Benchmarks. Some of My Conclusions Changed.

#ai #machinelearning #llm

9 min read

Akhouri Anmol Kumar

Nov 1

Are You a Web Developer or a Browser Expert? 7 Tests I Failed Building a Photo Editor That Never Uploads Your Photos

#webdev #javascript #ai #tutorial

7 min read

Randal L. Schwartz for Google Developer Experts

Nov 1

All That Glisters Is Softmax: Shiny-Object Interns, Airplane-Magazine Execs, and Why AI Labs Can Only Bake In Half the Scars

#ai #programming #architecture #machinelearning

29 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Fayaz

Nov 1

From a Simple "Mark as Seen" to Feedgrab & Ghostify: Story of My Life!

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #webdev

9 min read

Uses a fun Halloween theme to explain type safety

nyaomaru

Oct 31

Trick or Type Guard? Surviving `unknown` with is-kit 🎃

#typescript #opensource #beginners #webdev

5 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Peter Vivo

Oct 31

Singularity News :: CCG

#showdev #devchallenge #hf26challenge #gamedev

4 min read

Sergei Parfenov

Nov 1

My reflections on raising a daughter in the age of AI

#discuss #ai #learning #parenting

6 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Muhammad Murtuza Hussain

Nov 1

Not every ghost is here to scare you. Ward is the friendly one in your group chat

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma #opensource

14 min read

Iterated attacks successfully poison log analysis

Daniel Balcarek

Oct 29

Ghost in the Shell: Can a Log File Hijack an AI?

#ai #security #halloween #promptengineering

5 min read

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

Nazar Boyko

Nov 1

Here Lies My Toaster

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #gemma #go

7 min read

Tanya Mott

Nov 1

My Hacktoberfest 2026 Recap: Five Gemma Apps, 21 Stickers and Completionist++

#hacktoberfest #opensource #gemma #angular

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