Hey all, we have a quick update for everyone who participated in the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine.
We were blown away by the creativity of the submissions for our final Hacktoberfest challenge. From haunted terminals to heartfelt projects honoring loved ones, you all brought the spirit of the season to life with open-source AI. With 21 winners to select across our overall prize and 20 partner categories, we need a bit more time to carefully review everything and make our final decisions.
We'll be back with the winner announcement by the end of next week. Thank you so much for your patience, and for putting so much effort into your builds. 👻🌼
In the meantime, check out the Presage SmartSpectra SDK Challenge running now!
Happy coding!
Top comments (10)
You sure there isn't a Ghost in your development team that is delaying this?
Jokes aside, couldn't wait to see the Winners :D
Nah, they have a sloth (Sloan). They need a ghost or something like a Genie 🧞♂️ 🤣
Joke apart, the number of submissions is indeed overwhelming.
The delay is totally understandable.
Hats off to the DEV Team 🥰
It's because they realized I made a new open web protocol (an SDK) to allow a centralized site to act as a dummy cross-origin permission manager for browser-storage-partition to store and share open-weights models allowing airgapped edge compute via web browser with webGPU ans WASM-fallback, and it never touches my (or any) server except to trigger the local browser native request for shared strorage permission... request one time per site (e.g., authorize), and did so accidentally, and their minds blew up, as did mine 🤯.
Looking forward to the announcement!
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Thanks for the update, and no rush! This challenge was a lot of fun. I built a tiny hand-drawn ghost that warns you before you run a scary PowerShell command 👻
Command Casperr
Always happy to hear feedback !
building ossuary for dead domain is the real challenge for me, making your ai refuse to lie.
21 categories and that many winners? You absolutely get a pass for the delay. The mix of "haunted terminals" and heartfelt projects sounds incredible—take all the time you need to judge them fairly. Can't wait for the announcement!
The obsession with wrapping remote APIs into multi-layered agent abstractions is creating massive hidden latency and failure cascades in production.
If you profile real-world workloads, bare-metal local inference (via direct C++ / llama.cpp or vLLM bindings) consistently beats fragile cloud wrappers on both predictability and cost. Tooling should eliminate abstraction penalties, not compound them.
Pls. take your time, we have your back 🥰
A good judgement is often far better than a quick one ✊