Hacktoberfest - Top posts this year

Mixed feelings on SpamtoberFest rules

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ

Nov 2

This is my first HacktoberFest, and I don't know what to feel.

#discuss #community #mlh #hacktoberfest

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Over 115k participants and 500+ global meetups

Noah Brinker for The DEV Team

Nov 3

That's a Wrap on Hacktoberfest 2026! 🎃👻

#hacktoberfest #hf26challenge #opensource #ai

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Digital ofrendas and dead code séances won

Jem for The DEV Team

Nov 13

Congrats to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine Winners!

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #hacktoberfest #ai

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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Jess Lee for Daily Context

Oct 11

One Weekend: 3,000 Open-Source AI Projects

#aie #hacktoberfest #opensource #ai

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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Jen Looper for Her AI Studio

Oct 6

Build a Tiny Virtual Pet on Arduino in 60 Minutes 🐾

#arduino #beginners #programming #hacktoberfest

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Organized entirely by a solo student

Dhruv Jani

Oct 2

Hacktoberfest Is Coming to Nadiad, Gujarat 🚀 Official MLH Meetup at DDU, 15 Oct

#hacktoberfest #opensource #ai #beginners

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Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Nov 20 '25

Congrats to the 2025 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge Winners!

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Submission 🦥

Advik Divekar

Oct 25

A small, not-so-smart model went from 10% to 99.6% at reading property deeds for $1.15, and it says 'check this line' instead of bluffing

#tinker #hf26challenge #devchallenge #hacktoberfest

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Writing the prompt took longer than the build

Earl Grey

Oct 15

Eight Minutes to Live. Was It Cursor, or Was It the Spec?

#ai #vibecoding #mlh #hacktoberfest

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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

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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

DevOps Daily

Oct 1

Hacktoberfest 2026 Stopped Counting PRs. Make Your First Ones Anyway, One a Day

#hacktoberfest #opensource #beginners #devops

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Hacktoberfest: Open Source Reflections

Eric Portis for Cloudinary

Dec 19 '25

Hacktoberfest as a First-Time Maintainer

#hacktoberfest #opensource #community

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DevOps Daily

Oct 5

Touch Grass: 6 Project Ideas for People Who Live in a Terminal (Hacktoberfest DEV Challenge, Week 1)

#hacktoberfest #ai #devops #opensource

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Hacktoberfest: Maintainer Spotlight

Vidisha Gupta

Oct 5

I Built a Recipe Book for My Dadi, Using AI That Never Leaves My Laptop

#devchallenge #hacktoberfest #opensource #ai

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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Submission 💸

Jayant Jeet Tomar

Oct 14

My dad's health insurance covered nothing, so I built an AI that reads the fine print for him

#devchallenge #hf26challenge #ai #hacktoberfest

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