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I Got Tired of Coming Into My Lab To Check the Pressure of My Cryocooler so I Built a Tool To Do It for Me

Paul Horton2d ago • 5 min read

I Got Tired of Coming Into My Lab To Check the Pressure of My Cryocooler so I Built a Tool To Do It for Me

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

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Stuck in the same dev.to topics? An open model fixed it.

Thomas Bonnet2d ago • 7 min read

Stuck in the same dev.to topics? An open model fixed it.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

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Fine-Tuning Qwen3-8B with Tinker: From 50% to 76% Accuracy, and Burning Through My Budget

Daniel Balcarek5d ago • 10 min read

Fine-Tuning Qwen3-8B with Tinker: From 50% to 76% Accuracy, and Burning Through My Budget

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Oktoberfest...

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Bank alerts to a day-book, with a local Gemma

Daniel Nwaneri4d ago • 6 min read

Bank alerts to a day-book, with a local Gemma

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle ...

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

Dhruv Jani2d ago • 14 min read

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

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#opensource#gemma

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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

Robina Mirbahar2d ago • 8 min read

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

How I built a local-first open-weights Gemma 4, Google ADK, and Sentry Agent Tracing pipeline that d...

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Doorman: my apps' contact form got 23 messages in six weeks, and all 23 were pitches

Mike KimOct 16, 2026 • 7 min read

Doorman: my apps' contact form got 23 messages in six weeks, and all 23 were pitches

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle ...

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We Searched eBay for 237 Recalled Products. Only 45 of 12,562 Listings Named the Model.

Subarna Maity6d ago • 20 min read

We Searched eBay for 237 Recalled Products. Only 45 of 12,562 Listings Named the Model.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Built by...

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Fine-Tuning Gemma 4 on an 8 GB RTX 3050: Slow, Low End and Still Viable

xbill2d ago • 14 min read

Fine-Tuning Gemma 4 on an 8 GB RTX 3050: Slow, Low End and Still Viable

An 8 GB RTX 3050 serves Gemma 4 E2B at 109 tokens per second, and that speed makes it a training car...

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Renting Out One T4 to Three Customers: Gemma 4, vLLM Multi-LoRA and a Rust Gateway

xbillOct 16, 2026 • 12 min read

Renting Out One T4 to Three Customers: Gemma 4, vLLM Multi-LoRA and a Rust Gateway

One Tesla T4 serving Gemma 4 E2B to three paying tenants. A 245-line Rust gateway gives each one a k...

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Lewis Sawe6d ago • 8 min read

Déjà vu, but billable

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle ...

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From $0 to My First $10: How I Built AudioBite.tech to End the Voice-Note Chaos Tax

Kanak Waradkar6d ago • 8 min read

From $0 to My First $10: How I Built AudioBite.tech to End the Voice-Note Chaos Tax

How I built AudioBite.tech to turn chaotic WhatsApp voice notes into structured deliverables and lan...

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I never clean my Downloads folder, so I built a robot that does it, and undoes it when it’s wrong

Changsu Seong2d ago • 17 min read

I never clean my Downloads folder, so I built a robot that does it, and undoes it when it’s wrong

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and...

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#ai#opensource

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Job hunting became my side hustle, so I built Deis (Gemma 4) Tinder for jobs: swipe right, Gemma tailors your CV

Muhammad Murtuza Hussain5d ago • 14 min read

Job hunting became my side hustle, so I built Deis (Gemma 4) Tinder for jobs: swipe right, Gemma tailors your CV

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle My contract...

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#gemma#opensource

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The 90-day window every medical shop misses: I built ShelfMitra to catch it, in Tamil, Hindi and English

vigneshwarOct 16, 2026 • 11 min read

The 90-day window every medical shop misses: I built ShelfMitra to catch it, in Tamil, Hindi and English

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle ...

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I built Wait For It: tell an open Gemma what you're waiting for, it informs you without you needing to check in regularly

Ibrahim Awab2d ago • 12 min read

I built Wait For It: tell an open Gemma what you're waiting for, it informs you without you needing to check in regularly

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#gemma#opensource

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VOX: I asked for two support replies. Then I turned the server off.

Himanshu Kumar2d ago • 12 min read

VOX: I asked for two support replies. Then I turned the server off.

VOX prepares 24 fictional support tickets with open-weight AI, waits for two reply decisions and pre...

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

Rajan Mishra20h ago • 5 min read

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

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#ai#opensource

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standup-sloth: a local LLM drafts your standup, and a citation check keeps it honest

Dhanush N3d ago • 3 min read

standup-sloth: a local LLM drafts your standup, and a citation check keeps it honest

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#opensource#go

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ChaseLocal: An open-model tool that writes the invoice follow-up you've been putting off

Karthikeyan5d ago • 4 min read

ChaseLocal: An open-model tool that writes the invoice follow-up you've been putting off

This is a submission for Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle. What ...

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StoreScribe: an open model writes your App Store listing, inside every limit

Souvik Biswas5d ago • 7 min read

StoreScribe: an open model writes your App Store listing, inside every limit

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle ...

#hf26challenge#ai#opensource#mobile

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AI-Assisted Photo Culling with an Open Model, Fully Offline? Not a Myth Anymore.

Rupam Das4d ago • 9 min read

AI-Assisted Photo Culling with an Open Model, Fully Offline? Not a Myth Anymore.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Meet Meera....

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Munshi: a WhatsApp front desk for small hotels. A 4B model reads, Python decides, Temporal holds the room.

Arqam Waheed5d ago • 19 min read

Munshi: a WhatsApp front desk for small hotels. A 4B model reads, Python decides, Temporal holds the room.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle TL;DR....

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#ai#opensource

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Pentine Pejay6d ago • 8 min read

The Cold and Hard Log

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Dede Mensah...

#devchallenge#hf26challenge#temporal#tigerdata

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I Got Tired of Coming Into My Lab To Check the Pressure of My Cryocooler so I Built a Tool To Do It for Me

Stuck in the same dev.to topics? An open model fixed it.

Fine-Tuning Qwen3-8B with Tinker: From 50% to 76% Accuracy, and Burning Through My Budget

Bank alerts to a day-book, with a local Gemma

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

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

Doorman: my apps' contact form got 23 messages in six weeks, and all 23 were pitches

We Searched eBay for 237 Recalled Products. Only 45 of 12,562 Listings Named the Model.

Fine-Tuning Gemma 4 on an 8 GB RTX 3050: Slow, Low End and Still Viable

Renting Out One T4 to Three Customers: Gemma 4, vLLM Multi-LoRA and a Rust Gateway

Déjà vu, but billable

From $0 to My First $10: How I Built AudioBite.tech to End the Voice-Note Chaos Tax

I never clean my Downloads folder, so I built a robot that does it, and undoes it when it’s wrong

Job hunting became my side hustle, so I built Deis (Gemma 4) Tinder for jobs: swipe right, Gemma tailors your CV

The 90-day window every medical shop misses: I built ShelfMitra to catch it, in Tamil, Hindi and English

I built Wait For It: tell an open Gemma what you're waiting for, it informs you without you needing to check in regularly

VOX: I asked for two support replies. Then I turned the server off.

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

standup-sloth: a local LLM drafts your standup, and a citation check keeps it honest

ChaseLocal: An open-model tool that writes the invoice follow-up you've been putting off

StoreScribe: an open model writes your App Store listing, inside every limit

AI-Assisted Photo Culling with an Open Model, Fully Offline? Not a Myth Anymore.

Munshi: a WhatsApp front desk for small hotels. A 4B model reads, Python decides, Temporal holds the room.

The Cold and Hard Log