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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...

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What if your study notes could actually talk back to you? For Hacktoberfest 2026, I decided to build something that solves a real problem for a friend: Study Buddy — a simple AI-powered study assistant that lets you upload your study PDFs and ask questions about them. Instead of searching through hundreds of pages manually, you can upload your notes and simply ask: "What is deadlock and what are its necessary conditions?" or: "Who is Morrie and why did Mitch visit him every Tuesday?" S...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built My friend Denis doesn't speak much English, but there's a streamer he really enjoys watching. He mostly discovers the streamer's clips and highlights on Instagram, but because they're in English, he can't always understand what's happening. One day, he asked me: "Could you make something that translates these videos for me?" So I did. I built Video Translater — ...

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built I have a friend who ships frontend for a living, and he has one debugging habit that used to drive me a little insane. He does not paste the stack trace. He sends a screenshot. Sometimes it is the GitHub Actions page with a red Build failed. Sometimes it is the browser with a CORS overlay he did not notice. Sometimes it is his editor, zoomed in on a squiggle, with the actual ...

> A local, tamper-evident flight recorder and prompt-injection firewall for Claude Code. Audit last month's sessions in one command, no install. Looking for beta testers. Quick question: **what d id your AI coding agent do last month?** Not what you asked it to do. What it actually did. Which files it read. Which URLs it fetched. Which curl it ran while you were getting coffee. If you're like most of us, the honest answer is: no idea . We hand Claude Code (or Cursor, or Code...

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See also https://hackaday.com/2026/10/01/archiving-the-worlds-oldest-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950818 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/keyboards/google-japan-shows-off-wild-conveyor-belt-keyboard-with-keys-that-move-to-your-fingers-3d-printable-gboard-features-four-belts-with-29-keys-each-built-to-make-one-hand-typing-easier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956574 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 146, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, it's October already?, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I'm wishing I could do Walmart potato drone delivery in Portland, watching Mike Tomlin […]

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the collapse and the resurgence of the portable media player, follow Terrence O'Brien. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started We are […]

Google didn't even call the first Chromebook a "Chromebook." The Cr-48 had no interesting design and no bright logos - it wasn't even designed to be a product you could buy. Instead, it was a portal to a big new idea about computers. In this week's episode of Version History, The Verge's Nilay Patel and […]

Apple bumped up prices on several of its devices in June, and we haven’t seen a good discount on the iPad Mini since. Just ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Big Deals Days, however, both Wi-Fi only and cellular-connected models are $100 off. The Wi-Fi version with 128GB of storage is currently $499, the 256GB model […]

Amazon’s October Prime Day has effectively chopped off Apple’s June price increases. Usually $1,299, the 13-inch MacBook Air with the M5 chip and 512GB of storage is on sale for $1,099 at Amazon. That’s a more palatable price for a machine that’s significantly faster than Apple’s $699 MacBook Neo. The 15-inch version, also with 512GB […]

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good discount on the Apple AirPods Pro 3, but like the latest iPad Mini and the M5 MacBook Airs, a great one is happening now for October Prime Day. You can snag a pair of the noise-canceling earbuds that include five ear tip sizes, live translation, and […]

This toolless modular lever-action wallet is the coolest I've stuck to my phone. Remember when I tested the ultra-thin and convenient OhSnap Snap Grip Stand and liked it so much I bought my own? Now, OhSnap has a magnetic lever-action card wallet that can stack with that stand. It's the coolest wallet I've ever stuck […]

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku, […]

This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.

Thaththa's Memory Box - a personal AI agent that isn't allowed to make things up Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend Submission 🤝 Jayana Gunaweera Jayana Gunaweera ...