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Pitr Smriti: Channeling Ancestral Wisdom Through 14 Diyas and Open-Weight AI"

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

Pitr Smriti: Channeling Ancestral Wisdom Through 14 Diyas and Open-Weight AI"

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Haunted Shell: Trapping an Open-Source Ghost in My Terminal

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

Haunted Shell: Trapping an Open-Source Ghost in My Terminal

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NecroLog: The Haunted Daemon — Air-Gapped Systems Telemetry & Process Archaeology

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

NecroLog: The Haunted Daemon — Air-Gapped Systems Telemetry & Process Archaeology

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The Last Candle: a Día de los Muertos game where the local model may speak for the dead, but never decide who they were

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

The Last Candle: a Día de los Muertos game where the local model may speak for the dead, but never decide who they were

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Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine](htt👻 Ghost in the Machine: Bringing Open-Source AI to Life

Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine](htt👻 Ghost in the Machine: Bringing Open-Source AI to Life

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Room 404: The Haunted Terminal That Possesses Your Computer

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

Room 404: The Haunted Terminal That Possesses Your Computer

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The Computing Séance: Channeling Turing, Lovelace & Hopper with Open-Weight Gemma

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

The Computing Séance: Channeling Turing, Lovelace & Hopper with Open-Weight Gemma

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The Séance of the Dead Repositories: Resurrecting Abandoned Code with Local AI

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

The Séance of the Dead Repositories: Resurrecting Abandoned Code with Local AI

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I taught a local model to perform autopsies on dead repositories, then measured how often it lies

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

I taught a local model to perform autopsies on dead repositories, then measured how often it lies

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Last Light: a ghost story from the things a house records

Last Light: a ghost story from the things a house records

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I Held a Séance for Dead Programming Languages (and the Ghost Lives on My Machine)

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

I Held a Séance for Dead Programming Languages (and the Ghost Lives on My Machine)

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GhostShell 👻: A Haunted AI Terminal for Hacktoberfest 2026

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

GhostShell 👻: A Haunted AI Terminal for Hacktoberfest 2026

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PhantomShell: The Haunted Terminal Possessed by Forgotten Code & Dead Daemons

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

PhantomShell: The Haunted Terminal Possessed by Forgotten Code & Dead Daemons

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I Summoned the Ghost of COBOL on My Laptop (With Airplane mode ON)

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

I Summoned the Ghost of COBOL on My Laptop (With Airplane mode ON)

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I went ghost hunting inside Gemma 4. It invented a package, and asked for it again.

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

I went ghost hunting inside Gemma 4. It invented a package, and asked for it again.

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