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I Built slothd: A Local-First, Offline-Capable AI Daemon That Patiently Organizes Your Messy Workspace

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

I Built slothd: A Local-First, Offline-Capable AI Daemon That Patiently Organizes Your Messy Workspace

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Day 21 of Building Crowdwide — Finally, Time to Polish the UI! 🎉

Day 21 of Building Crowdwide — Finally, Time to Polish the UI! 🎉

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Agents should never hold your API keys. NVIDIA just open-sourced the runtime that enforces it

Agents should never hold your API keys. NVIDIA just open-sourced the runtime that enforces it

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I let an open model delete 1,242 of my saved articles. On purpose. I feel lighter.

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

I let an open model delete 1,242 of my saved articles. On purpose. I feel lighter.

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I Built a Pixel Hero That Nags Me to Drink Water (and Runs 100% on My Laptop)

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

I Built a Pixel Hero That Nags Me to Drink Water (and Runs 100% on My Laptop)

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Hush: I Hid 10 Emergencies in My Own Notifications. An On-Device Gemma OS Found All 10.

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

Hush: I Hid 10 Emergencies in My Own Notifications. An On-Device Gemma OS Found All 10.

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Why Vision Is the Dumbest AI in Pop Culture

Why Vision Is the Dumbest AI in Pop Culture

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Most Package Managers Won't Stop a Tampered Download by Default

Most Package Managers Won't Stop a Tampered Download by Default

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Availazy: Gemma 4 reads the volunteer group chat on my laptop, Python does the dates, and I just say yes or no

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

Availazy: Gemma 4 reads the volunteer group chat on my laptop, Python does the dates, and I just say yes or no

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Leave It: I fine-tuned a 4B model to defer 73 of 731 GitHub issues, then killed its worker with -9

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

Leave It: I fine-tuned a 4B model to defer 73 of 731 GitHub issues, then killed its worker with -9

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Slow and steady, a little lazy: I built a garden that grows from small commits

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

Slow and steady, a little lazy: I built a garden that grows from small commits

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SlothSRE (NapOps): An Overnight Gemma 4 & ADK Agent That Compresses 418 Lines of 3 AM Alerts into a 2-Line Morning Digest

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

SlothSRE (NapOps): An Overnight Gemma 4 & ADK Agent That Compresses 418 Lines of 3 AM Alerts into a 2-Line Morning Digest

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PHP2Shell and the smarter-attacker test: which defences still hold when AI finds the bugs

PHP2Shell and the smarter-attacker test: which defences still hold when AI finds the bugs

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Terminal Déjà Vu: I Got Tired of Solving the Same Error Twice, So My Terminal Now Remembers

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

Terminal Déjà Vu: I Got Tired of Solving the Same Error Twice, So My Terminal Now Remembers

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PixelBreak: I Built a Local-First Tool That Blocks Bad Commits Before They Break Your Frontend

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

PixelBreak: I Built a Local-First Tool That Blocks Bad Commits Before They Break Your Frontend

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