Ou Bourey·3d agoDid HacktoberFest Lose Its Magic When Pull Requests Stopped Counting?Pull requests no longer counted this year. Here is what that change fixed, what it broke, and how the event could improve.
bhushan agrawal·5d agohow i shipped 67 prs to @codercops for hacktoberfest 2026what i built, fixed, and learned while contributing to codercops during hacktoberfest 2026.
Meheret Egzerab·Oct 28I Used to Tell People to Attend a Hackathon. This Year, I Hosted Hacktoberfest.Watching people demo their projects was the moment hosting Hacktoberfest really hit me.
Manuel Alejandro Hermoso·Oct 23Hacktoberfest: 13 small, well-described issues in a Kotlin library for AI agentsHacktoberfest ends on October 31. If you write Kotlin, or want to, and are looking for a pull request that gets reviewed quickly, here are…
Kunal·Oct 22I won first prize at OLake x Hacktoberfest with a docs bot that says “I don’t know”Most docs bots lie. I built one that admits when it doesn’t know.A response icon1A response icon1
Muhammad Murtuza Hussain·Oct 4I Never Studied Code. I Still Won the Technical Track.What a Dublin hackathon taught me about AI anxiety, imposter syndrome and pitching
Shuchi Shukla·Oct 4Hacktoberfest 2026: What’s New in Open Source ?From my first Hacktoberfest guide in 2023 to exploring new ways to learn, build, and contribute in 2026.
InGreat New ReadsbyAnn Venkataraman·Oct 3End the Year with a BangOctober Technology Challenges A response icon1A response icon1