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I'm Not on the DEV Team. I Still Debugged Their Missing Badges From Public Code. (And My First Test Was Wrong.)

A humbling reminder that passing tests can lie

I'm Not on the DEV Team. I Still Debugged Their Missing Badges From Public Code. (And My First Test Was Wrong.)

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

Prioritizing backend logic over UI proves vital

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

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Day 22 of Building Crowdwide: I Thought UI Polish Would Be Easy, BUT I WAS WRONGGGGG 😭

Surprise UI bugs and optimistic updates added

Day 22 of Building Crowdwide: I Thought UI Polish Would Be Easy, BUT I WAS WRONGGGGG 😭

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

Uses Z3 SMT provers and kernel sandboxes

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

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Sloth Reads: an open model reads my read-later pile overnight, then reads me the good ones

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

Sloth Reads: an open model reads my read-later pile overnight, then reads me the good ones

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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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Humanizer has about 60,000 stars. On 12 public tasks my linter plugin scored 2.67 higher

Held-out tests reveal tools tie on unseen data

Humanizer has about 60,000 stars. On 12 public tasks my linter plugin scored 2.67 higher

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SlothOps: A Local AI Caretaker for Your Codebase

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

SlothOps: A Local AI Caretaker for Your Codebase

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Building Plugins, Skills & MCP Sidecars in Google Antigravity

Building Plugins, Skills & MCP Sidecars in Google Antigravity

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I Built Mimu Because Even Taking Notes Is Too Much Work

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

I Built Mimu Because Even Taking Notes Is Too Much Work

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How to promote your open-source project 💎

How to promote your open-source project 💎

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DownloadsSloth: a local Gemma tool that tidies messy folders so you don't have to

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

DownloadsSloth: a local Gemma tool that tidies messy folders so you don't have to

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SloanDesk — The Ambient Open-Source AI Digital Chore Autopilot (Zero Cloud, Zero Cost, 100% Sloth)

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

SloanDesk — The Ambient Open-Source AI Digital Chore Autopilot (Zero Cloud, Zero Cost, 100% Sloth)

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I gave my PC a lazy, rude roommate. He does my chores, but only if I say thank you.

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

I gave my PC a lazy, rude roommate. He does my chores, but only if I say thank you.

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Your agent's skills have no lockfile — a derivation graph for skill provenance

Your agent's skills have no lockfile — a derivation graph for skill provenance

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