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Join the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Slow and Steady! $2,850 in Prizes Across 21 Winners.

Jem on October 19, 2026

Week 3 of our five Hacktoberfest DEV Challenges starts today! Running through October 25, the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 3 gives ...
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Fayaz • • Edited

May the slow and steady win the race this time as well, like all the other times 🀣πŸ₯°
Best wishes to all those who'll participate 🀞


And just in case you need some more free credits: πŸ‘‡

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π“π‘πž π‹πšπ³π² 𝐆𝐒𝐫π₯ •

Good luck!!!πŸ₯°

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Fayaz •

BTW, this challenge suits your DEV user name perfectly! May be you should join ... just saying. 🀣πŸ₯°

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π“π‘πž π‹πšπ³π² 𝐆𝐒𝐫π₯ • • Edited

Maybe DEV got inspired by my Dev user name and came up with this challenge, lol! Just kidding 🀣By the way, DEV should launch a Halloween challenge too! πŸŽƒπŸ‘»

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Fayaz •

Thanks! πŸ₯°

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Alessio Bianchini •

Just published my submission for Week 3: SlothLog (πŸ¦₯)!

It’s an offline, privacy-first developer utility that inspects local git commits, clusters them into work sessions by ticket ID, and writes clean timesheet worklogs using local Gemma 2 2B (with Sentry tracing and a Render cloud demo). No more wasting 45 minutes every Friday afternoon trying to remember what you did on Tuesday!

Check it out here: SlothLog

Happy International Sloth Day and good luck everyone! πŸ¦₯✨

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Bob Vasic •

Looking forward to seeing all the submissions.

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Ri Piao •

OHHHHHH~~!

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S.Vasantha Kumar •

Slow and steady wins always

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Kshama1888 •

Excited for the upcoming events!!!

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Hafilat card balance check online •

Love the β€œslow and steady” theme! πŸ¦₯ Open-source AI can make everyday tasks simpler through practical automation. One useful idea would be a lightweight assistant that helps public transport users track travel expenses and remember to check their Hafilat card balance before commuting. Keeping tools accessible, transparent, and privacy-friendly is a great example of how open innovation can solve real-world problems. Looking forward to seeing the creative projects the community builds for this challenge!

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tdk-cli •

nice!

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evan •

what's the compute budget limit for each repo, and are there any constraints on using external gpu services. also, how will you evaluate model performance without inflating the scoring pipeline?