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Every spring there are plenty of "how many games will each team win" projections. Most of them build a forecast for each player and add the players up by team. I had long wondered how well that actually works. So I built one of my own and checked it against the 2026 MLB season. I froze the projections in a repository before looking at the results, so nothing could be adjusted afterwards. I have no experience inside the game; this is just an analysis of public data. Data and method...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built My grandparents get a lot of forwarded messages. News screenshots. Instagram posts. Random “breaking news”. Messages that have clearly been forwarded about 17 times already. And every now and then, I get the same question: “Beta, ye sach hai kya?” Usually that means I have to search for the claim, open a few articles, compare what they say, and figure out whether the...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built My friend writes down everything in class. Every lecture, every assignment, page after page. The problem shows up the night before an exam: he photographs his notes, uploads them to an AI chatbot, asks for a summary, and gets nothing useful back. It can't read his handwriting. When I ran his pages through a vision model myself, I found something worse than "can't read it"....

Use a backend metrics dashboard for cron jobs, API failures, and bounded business events, then add a separate heartbeat monitor for every nightly pipeline deadline. The deciding constraint is signal quality: metrics can count completed and failed runs, but they cannot report a job that emitted nothing because it never started. TL;DR: chart successes, failures, duration, backlog, and business-event counts; enrich failure investigation with error records and searchable logs; send one dead-man...

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Hi HN, I built this because I watched my daughter struggle at learning Python. I made something that runs only in the browser with visuals rather than relying on CLI/terminal output. No need to worry about python installation, package versions, venv etc. The lab runs with Pyodide in a web worker, and the program output is a picture by the side of the code block. A user would experiment with the code, and see the immediate changes in the visual output. The course has 13 modules, with the first 6 ...

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New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. governor has been making the media rounds trying to clear his name. But he took a particularly odd tactic during an interview on NJ […]

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Built for the Hacktoberfest 2026 Weekend Challenge — "Build for a Friend". Entered categories: Best Use of Gemma, Best Use of SerpApi. My parents run a small noodle restaurant in the San Gabriel Valley. They have run it for fifteen years. In those fifteen years, they have never read a single one of their own Google Maps reviews — because every review is in English, and they don't read English. The 1-star reviews sit there, unanswered. Every restaurateur knows that replying to reviews is...

I'm happy to share that my event which I hosted today in Macdond's Cafe in Navi Mumbai. There are 50+ check-in in my Event. Everyone enjoys a lot and I have given them deadline 9 th October to build something crazy . Here is some pictures of my Event:

Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty — How a 1992 Desert Invented the RTS Retro game retrospective #7 — 1992, Westwood Studios / Virgin Interactive, DOS (Sega Genesis port: Dune II: Battle for Arrakis) Every real-time strategy game you've ever played is built on sand. Not metaphorically — literally. Before Warcraft , before Command & Conquer , before the genre even had a name, Westwood Studios made a game about a desert planet where the resource is a drug, the weather eats your buil...

What I Built One of my friend is preparing for software engineering placements, and while helping him I noticed one common problem. There are already lot of interview questions available online. DSA questions, aptitude, DBMS, OS, web development, everything is there. But most of them are very generic. They don't know what projects are actually written on your resume, what technologies you used, or what kind of role you're applying for. So I thought, instead of giving another list...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built I built ResumePilot , an AI job-application copilot for a friend who was applying to internships and repeatedly comparing their resume with different job descriptions. For every application, they had to manually figure out which skills matched the role, which requirements were missing, which parts of the resume were relevant, and what could be improved before applying. ResumePi...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built FocusBuddy is a 100% offline, privacy-first task decomposer designed to help individuals dealing with ADHD or executive dysfunction. When facing overwhelming projects—such as "make notes on certain topics of DBMS"—FocusBuddy uses local open-source AI to break the goal into bite-sized, 5-minute micro-steps. It presents these steps strictly one at a time to eliminate overthinking and co...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built I built PDF → Quiz, a small web app that turns lecture PDFs into multiple-choice practice quizzes. I made it for my college friend. They upload a lecture PDF, pick how many questions they want, and the app writes a quiz from the material. Each question comes with four options, a correct answer, and a short explanation. At the end it shows a score. He had piles of lecture slides and no...