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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

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

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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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

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

Peter Vivo

Oct 31

Singularity News :: CCG

#showdev #devchallenge #hf26challenge #gamedev

4 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

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

Shai Almog

Oct 31

Skirmish: A Multiplayer Strategy Game Template in Java

#java #mobile #android #ios

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

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

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

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