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Every Codebase Has a '// DO NOT TOUCH' File. I Built an AI Necromancer to Summon the Ghost of the Developer Who Wrote It 💀🔮

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

Every Codebase Has a '// DO NOT TOUCH' File. I Built an AI Necromancer to Summon the Ghost of the Developer Who Wrote It 💀🔮

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12 min read
My Local AI Invented 162 Python Packages. I Reran Everything From Scratch, and 161 Came Back.

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

My Local AI Invented 162 Python Packages. I Reran Everything From Scratch, and 161 Came Back.

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21 min read
Gravespeaker: Giving the Person Behind the Headstone a Voice

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

Gravespeaker: Giving the Person Behind the Headstone a Voice

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13 min read
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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4 min read
Séance: Summon the Ghost of a Dead GitHub Repo

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

Séance: Summon the Ghost of a Dead GitHub Repo

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4 min read
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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5 min read
EXORCIST.EXE: The Ghost in the Machine — An Air-Gapped Cyber-Noir OS Murder Mystery Game

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

EXORCIST.EXE: The Ghost in the Machine — An Air-Gapped Cyber-Noir OS Murder Mystery Game

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6 min read
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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4 min read
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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3 min read
Ofrenda Viva (Living Altar)

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

Ofrenda Viva (Living Altar)

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4 min read
Exhume

Exhume

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2 min read
Time-Capsule Radio: The Dead Internet Is Still Broadcasting

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

Time-Capsule Radio: The Dead Internet Is Still Broadcasting

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10 min read
# 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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3 min read
👻 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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3 min read
Animas - Mourning the Dead 💀

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

Animas - Mourning the Dead 💀

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4 min read
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