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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

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

Tech stack details inside

Dhruv Jani

Oct 30

We Need to Talk About How Gross Modern Web Design Has Become (And How We Built an AI to Catch It)

#discuss #showdev #webdev #gemini

4 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

Community sharing badges and performance wins

Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Oct 30

What was your win this week?

#weeklyretro

1 min read

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

Advik Divekar

Oct 31

ESA's satellite is dead. Its ghost: 2,123 signals. TabPFN beat the published SOTA; 83¢ of Tinker stopped an LLM speaking for it

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #hacktoberfest #ai

18 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

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

Puneet Kumar Mishra

Oct 31

Day 29 of Building Crowdwide — Brand Ambassador, UI Fixes & 80 Posts!! 🎉

#discuss #webdev #buildinpublic #opensource

2 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

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

Rajan Mishra

Oct 31

🕯️ Ofrenda: The Ghost in the Machine — An Offering to Abandoned Software

#devchallenge #hf26challenge

8 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

Shai Almog

Oct 31

Skirmish: A Multiplayer Strategy Game Template in Java

#java #mobile #android #ios

8 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

Community feedback driving quick UI fixes

Puneet Kumar Mishra

Oct 30

Day 28 of Building Crowdwide — More Personalization, Bug Fixes & Still Looking for a Brand Ambassador!

#discuss #webdev #buildinpublic #opensource

2 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

Tanya Mott

Nov 1

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

#hacktoberfest #opensource #gemma #angular

4 min read

xbill for Google Developer Experts

Oct 31

Agent Skills Drift: A Feedback Loop for Keeping One True

#ai #devtools #productivity #opensource

6 min read