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DeadWave 13: A Haunted AI Experience Powered by Open-Weight Models

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

DeadWave 13: A Haunted AI Experience Powered by Open-Weight Models

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My Hacktoberfest 2026 Experience

My Hacktoberfest 2026 Experience

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Afterlight: Some Stories Deserve to Stay 🌼

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

Afterlight: Some Stories Deserve to Stay 🌼

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El Pueblo de los Muertos — a village where nine AI spirits solve the case themselves

El Pueblo de los Muertos — a village where nine AI spirits solve the case themselves

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Hidden Objects: an escape room where the narrator would rather you stayed

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

Hidden Objects: an escape room where the narrator would rather you stayed

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Poltergeist — an open-weight ghost that haunts your terminal 👻

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

Poltergeist — an open-weight ghost that haunts your terminal 👻

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Rest in Repo: a graveyard for your dead side projects, powered by local Gemma

Rest in Repo: a graveyard for your dead side projects, powered by local Gemma

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Ofrenda Viva (Living Altar)

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

Ofrenda Viva (Living Altar)

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Exhume

Exhume

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👻 ASCII Ghost: A Local AI Debugging Companion for FPGA & Embedded Systems

👻 ASCII Ghost: A Local AI Debugging Companion for FPGA & Embedded Systems

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# PHANTOMTRACE: Finding the Ghosts Inside AI Agent Execution Traces 👻

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

# PHANTOMTRACE: Finding the Ghosts Inside AI Agent Execution Traces 👻

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Animas - Mourning the Dead 💀

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

Animas - Mourning the Dead 💀

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PhantomAI: A Ghost in the Machine

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

PhantomAI: A Ghost in the Machine

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MemoryKeeper — Some stories deserve to stay.

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

MemoryKeeper — Some stories deserve to stay.

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Yaadein: a private remembrance maker for a loved one, powered by open-source Gemma

Yaadein: a private remembrance maker for a loved one, powered by open-source Gemma

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