Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Ollama, vLLM, and OpenAI challenge you to build something weird, useful, or groundbreaking (or all three!) with gpt-oss. Virtual for the next six weeks, starting today. Categories: Best Overall, Robotics, Weirdest Hardware, Local Agent, Useful Fine-tune, Wildcard, and For Hum…

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If you’re participating in the hackathon, feel free to use this thread for discussion!

Please let us know if you’re tinkering on anything!

[image] PaulBellow: if you’re tinkering There’s no tinker: there’s only picking a specific category - and destroying it. Plus, don’t get “special consideration” from OpenAI, or be DQ’d. At least this time they went through a contest administrator. Who got those Christmas radios for tweeting…

Whatcha’ destrying @_j ? Mine might fit in Useful Fine-tuning, Local Agent, or For Humanity. I’ll have to see what I can do.

Probably the wrong model for my prompt -> SPICE -> autorouted Gerber wishes…You aren’t going to smash any benchmarks. I’d give advice “think locally” in general. The local category is a subset of that, the VC buzzword “agent” without using internet (aka no API services). And the model is knowledge-…

[image] _j: And the model is knowledge-bound, so it’s not going to be filling in the lyrics fields of your MP3s. Certainly. It sounds like the new oss models are operating at o4-mini-ish levels for most tasks, with fine tuning and training making it more and more appropriate for a specialized…

Wow super awesome. I guess I dropped my project too soon :smiley: But totally happy with that! Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with. For Humanity! [The image is completely blank with a white background. (Captioned by AI)]

For humanity! =) What did you build? Think you could throw together something new in time?

Just my thread here from the last forum hackathon thread, a simple local Agentic system a bit like ‘ Operator ’ with the ability to share self-describing agents packed in GIFs. It’s not very professional like you guys would do though, it’s a hobby project. Feel free to use it / repurpose it for your…

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thinktank August 5, 2025, 9:06pm 3

@edwinarbus Thanks for sharing! I’ve never known about this sort of thing from day 1 before! Squeeeeeeee.

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