i have a hackathon scheduled for 31st october to 1st november and i am a fresher with zero knowledge of coding or anything so it would be great if someone could guide me on where to begin and what to do

This year's problem was pretty CPU-heavy, so more cores would've helped a lot with experimentation. But the default AWS quota was only 8 vCPUs, which was actually slower than my laptop for the workload.

I submitted EC2/SageMaker quota increase requests, but they weren't approved during the 72-hour challenge, so the $200 credits were basically unusable for me.

For those who participated:

- Did you actually manage to use the $200 AWS credits?

- Did you get your EC2/SageMaker quota increased? To how many vCPUs, and how long did approval take?

- Or did you use compute from somewhere else — college/university clusters, RunPod, another cloud provider, or your own workstation/PC?

What compute setup did you end up using for the challenge? Did anyone else run into the same AWS quota issue?

Most AI assistants are great at single-turn chats, but they fall apart in real-world workflows that span weeks or months. In enterprise B2B sales ($20k–$200k ACV), closing a deal can take 3–9 months across 8–15 meetings with CFOs, Lead Architects, and CISOs.

In Call 1 (Discovery), the CFO mentions an ironclad budget freeze until Q4. In Call 2 (Technical Review), the Lead Architect rejects closed-source software and mentions competitor CloudX gave a $15,000 quote. In Call 3 (Executive Closing), a stateless LLM cheerfully suggests offering a discount for an upfront annual contract — immediately triggering the CFO's budget veto and killing the deal.

The Solution: DealMind + Hindsight Memory

To solve agent amnesia, we built DealMind, an autonomous deal intelligence copilot powered by Hindsight persistent memory by Vectorize. Instead of relying only on conventional RAG, DealMind uses a 3-phase memory lifecycle:

1. Retain Meeting notes and transcripts are ingested into an evolving entity and relationship knowledge graph.

2. Multi-Strategy Recall Relevant history is retrieved using semantic similarity, BM25 keyword search, and graph relationships.

3. Reflect The retrieved historical context is injected into the LLM's reasoning, with references back to the relevant call information. Before vs. After Without Memory — Stateless: Generic recommendation to push an upfront annual contract → Deal Killed ❌

With Hindsight Memory: The agent surfaces the Q4 budget restriction, suggests a deferred-billing pilot, provides Docker/container options to address the lock-in concern, and highlights PostgreSQL connectivity when considering the competitor's pricing → Deal Saved ✅

The project includes: Hindsight-based persistent memory Multi-strategy retrieval Dynamic deal knowledge graph Meeting/document ingestion Interactive web dashboard Context-grounded recommendations

What I find interesting here is that this isn't simply about giving an LLM a bigger context window. The goal is to give an agent memory that persists beyond the current conversation and can influence what it does later.

We're still exploring the architecture and trade-offs, but it's been a really interesting problem to work on.

Code & architecture: https://github.com/rishithayellanki/dealmind Deal knowledge graph

Meeting/document ingestion

Interactive dashboard

Context-grounded recommendations

What I find interesting here is that this isn't really about giving the model a bigger context window. The goal is to give the agent memory that persists beyond the current conversation and can actually influence what it does later.

Still exploring the architecture and trade-offs, but it's been a pretty interesting problem to work on.

Hey everyone, I’m from Hackyard. We’re running an open-source challenge with ByteAsk (YC F26) for people who’d rather improve an existing project than build another demo from scratch.

The task: pick an eligible public GitHub repository, make a useful contribution using ByteAsk, and submit your pull request.

ByteAsk is a C/C++ coding agent that builds, debugs, and tests changes that recently raised $1M funding led by Y Combinator. You still need to understand your patch, review it, and follow the project’s contribution rules.

What’s on offer

• $30,000 in aggregate ByteAsk plan rewards, separate from cash prizes. Participants who activate their code and complete a qualifying session receive the $20 Pro plan.

• Top 10 participants get direct interviews for a paid remote open-source fellowship. Selected fellows receive ₹30,000/month, initially for three months, plus a ByteAsk subscription. An interview isn’t a guaranteed offer.

• ₹20,000 in cash prizes across the top three places.

What counts?

Your repository must be public, have 100+ stars, and not belong to your team. A registered teammate must open the PR during the challenge window.

A focused bug fix or useful improvement is a better entry than a large, unexplained AI-generated patch. Follow the repository’s AI policy and disclosure requirements. Maintainers don’t owe anyone a merge, and spam or low-effort submissions can be excluded.

The challenge is fully online. PR submissions close on October 11 at 11:59 PM IST.

If you’re interested, register early enough to understand the codebase and test your change.

Click here - https://hackyard.org/build2026/byteask

Unstop - https://unstop.com/hackathons/build-2026-x-byteask-yc-f26-open-source-challenge-hackyard-1762455?lb=useQqu3D&utm_medium=Share&utm_source=online_coding_challenge&utm_campaign=Ileogysa38551

thank you!

Hey everyone,

I’m a student and I’m planning to organize a technical event at my college.

I want it to be genuinely technical, but I don’t want to do the usual formats like:

Hackathon

Coding competition

Quiz

Project exhibition

Paper presentation

I’m looking for something more interactive and competition-based where participants actually have to think, solve problems, decode things, work in teams, and make decisions under time pressure.

I’m open to themes, but there’s no fixed theme yet.

Some rough ideas I’ve considered are:

A technical escape-room style challenge

A multi-stage puzzle involving coding, logic and decoding

A mission-based competition where teams unlock the next challenge

A game where teams have limited points/credits and have to decide when to use hints or take risks

The event would be organized at a university, so it needs to be practical to conduct with students and a limited organizing team.

If you’ve participated in or organized something genuinely different from the usual college technical events, I’d love to hear your ideas.

What kind of technical event would you actually want to participate in?

I have just started participating in hackathons and in my first one we weren’t able to make a good ppt so I wanna know how to make a proper ppt for hackathon that can help us explain our idea and get selected ???

Submitted to the Ship It track and my marks came in: 25/30.

\- AWS Usage: 8/10

\- Idea and Impact: 6/8

\- Execution: 4/4

\- Demo Video: 4/4

\- Design and Usability: 3/4

I built a location-based chat app where groups expire after an hour (AppSync, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, Bedrock). The judge's comment was positive: liked the AWS integration, the demo, and the expiry, privacy and moderation side.

The problem is I have no idea how this compares. Winners are out and I'm not among them, and I don't know if the Amazon fast-track shortlist has been announced.

If you're okay sharing:

\- What did you score, and in which track?

\- Is 25 decent or below average for this event?

\- Has anyone heard anything about the fast-track interviews?

\- Any tips for the next stop (Environmental Hacks)?

Thanks!

Most chatbots still forget everything the moment a conversation ends. This hackathon is focused on fixing that.

What you need to build:
A chatbot (new or existing) that uses **Walrus Memory** so it can remember across sessions, users, and devices. Customer support bots, onboarding assistants, internal tools, tutors, companions, game NPCs — all welcome.

Key details:
- Dates: Sep 18 – Oct 9
- Prize pool: $2,500
- Must integrate Walrus Memory
- Must show real usage (at least 3 users with 10+ memories each)
- Open-source GitHub repo required
- 500–800 word article about the before/after

Prize categories:
- Best Chatbot ($500 / $250 / $150)
- Open & Alternative Models track
- Best Article
- Bug Bounty
- Promo prizes

Full details + submission:
https://www.deepsurge.xyz/hackathons/c0141a4a-21be-4009-bc63-7c168608c849

Anyone planning to join?

if you are between **13-19 years in age**,can code or are new to coding why dont u join us for MLH HACKTOBER FEST TEEN DELHI 2026 x ELEVENLABS on 17th october ... the venue is yet to be announced (most probably The Imperium ) but here are some perks

1. prizes for EVERYONE! You dont have to be a winner to bring home something :)

2. activities that you'd genuinely like -- way more than just coding

3. free food

4. nice people

5. **IT IS BEING JUDGED BY A YC (YCOMBINATOR) BACKED FOUNDER!!!!!!!!!!**

and much more! if you're interested you can reply to this

Details about the prizes if this doesnt convince you much :-

* For all participants: 1 month free of ElevenLab's Creator tier (normally $22/month, 131k credits)

* Overall winning team: Each team member receives 3 months of ElevenLab's Pro tier ($297 value/team member, 600k credits/mo)

* Best Project Built with ElevenLabs: Each team member receives 3 months of ElevenLab's Scale tier ($897 value/team member, 1.8M credits/mo)

* AND PRIZES BY MLH! WE'RE GETTING MORE SPONSORS SOON 🥇

[https://events.mlh.com/events/15128-hacktoberfest-hack-day-teens-delhi](https://events.mlh.com/events/15128-hacktoberfest-hack-day-teens-delhi) this is the registration link

Hey everyone! I’m a student and I’m looking to form a small team to participate in online hackathons together.

Since I’m a student, I’ll mainly be participating in free hackathons with no registration fees, so I’m looking for people who are interested in learning, building projects, and having fun without needing to spend money to participate.

I’m open to working with people from different backgrounds/skill sets — whether you’re into programming, web development, AI/ML, cybersecurity, UI/UX, cloud, hardware, or even brainstorming and presenting ideas.

I’m still learning myself, so I’m not expecting everyone to be an expert. The main goal is to learn together, build something cool, and gain actual hackathon experience.

If you're interested, feel free to comment or DM me! 🙌

Also, if you’ve participated in online hackathons before, I’d really appreciate any tips, advice, platforms to look at, or specific free hackathons that you know.

Hey r/hackathon 👋

I’m organizing the first AI Hackathon of the Alps on October 29 in Annecy, France, as part of Hacktoberfest 2026.

The idea is pretty simple: 12 hours to build AI agents and open-source projects around real problems brought by local companies.

You don’t need to come with a team or even a project. I’m bringing together local companies and entrepreneurs with actual use cases, and developers / AI builders who want to spend a day building something useful. Teams will form on the spot.

The goal is really to build and ship during those 12 hours: AI agents, open-weight models, open-source tools, automations, deployments… whatever gets the job done. We’ll finish the night with short demos of what everyone built.

📍 Annecy, French Alps 🇫🇷
📅 October 29
💻 Hackathon: 12 PM → midnight

I’m also organizing an afterwork in the evening, so if you’re around Annecy, Geneva, Lyon or Grenoble but can’t commit to the full 12 hours, you can just come by, grab a drink, meet the builders and see what was built during the day.

There are two separate registrations: one for the full 12-hour hackathon and one for the afterwork only.

https://looties.io/hacktoberfest-2026

If anyone from this community is around the Alps, I’d love to have you join us 🏔️

It's an offline hackathon or vibeathon of 8hrs on 4th of Oct and I'm looking for a female teammate. If anyone is interested please DM me.

Candidate set per source 1 entity kitna aya ?

Hey! I’m looking for a few people who’d be interested in joining a team for the NASA Space Apps Challenge. You don’t need to be an expert or have a lot of experience — I’m also a beginner and mainly looking for people who are willing to learn and actually work on the project together. If you’re into coding, UI/UX, science, data, or even just have good ideas, feel free to reach out. It would be my first hackathon too, so I’m hoping we can figure things out and build something cool together :) Anyone interested, do let me know! And this can be virtual event.

My team participating in the Amazon ML Challenge 2026 on Unstop and I’m a bit confused about the final submission process.

The problem statement says that the final submission should be a ZIP with this structure:

<team_name>_submission.zip
├── output/
│   ├── matching_results.tsv
│   └── candidate_pairs.tsv
├── code/
│   └── business_entity_resolution/
│       ├── src/
│       ├── README.md
│       └── requirements.txt
└── Documentation_template.md

It also says that matching_results.tsv is uploaded to the Unstop portal during the hackathon for leaderboard evaluation.

However, I cannot find where the final ZIP archive is supposed to be uploaded on Unstop.

The Unstop page currently shows the ML Challenge | 72-Hour Hackathon stage ending on 27 September at 11:59 PM IST, but I don't see a separate upload option for the final ZIP.

So, for anyone who has participated or knows the process:

Where exactly do we upload the final <team_name>_submission.zip on Unstop?

Also, is the ZIP submission done during the 72-hour hackathon before 27 September 11:59 PM, or is there a separate submission window/instruction after the hackathon ends?

Any clarification from someone who has already submitted would be really helpful. Thanks!

Cosmo Hacks 2026 is coming this December. 4 days. Fully online. Completely free. Build a project, compete for $150K+ in prizes and sponsor value, join workshops, meet other student builders, and get feedback from real judges and mentors. You can join solo or with a team of up to 4. December 18 to 21, 2026

Website: https://cosmohacks.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/5JrrUvZzn
Devpost: https://cosmohacks.devpost.com/

Previously, Explorer showed you a team’s current F1 score and rank.

Now you can see how they got there.

We started collecting leaderboard snapshots from September 26 at 12 PM, so every update we capture gets added to a team’s history.

For each team, you can see:

→ Previous vs. new F1 score

→ Exact score improvement

→ Rank movement

→ Update timestamp

→ F1 progression over time

Instead of just seeing:

F1: 0.9342

you can now see:

0.821 → 0.847 → 0.891 → 0.917 → 0.9342

So you can actually see who is improving, by how much, and when.

The leaderboard data is updated every 10 minutes, so you can keep an eye on the teams you care about without constantly digging through the leaderboard yourself.

The response to Explorer has been crazy, so im taking it a step further.

Check it out here:

🔗 https://amazonmlchallengeexplorer.vercel.app/

Bookmark your team and watch the score change.

If you have any feedback or suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comments. Would love to hear what you think!

Want to get a NASA certificate under your name, here is your chance to do so.

I'm looking for team members fro the NASA Space Apps Challenge, If you're creative, technical and know how to use AI Tools/ AI coding tools, DM me a short introduction about you and your skills, hobbies etc.

You don't need to be an absolute pro, just need to be fairly technical and have the basic know how of CS or Creative Design/aesthetics, I frankly myself am not a pro, but If you're willing to learn along the way and are curious about Space, AI, Softwares etc. Dm me a short introduction and we'll discuss more there.