Hacktober-Fest-In-Peace: A Graveyard for My Dead Bookmarks, Written by a Local AI

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine

I ran a list of 26 old links through a script, and it flagged 15 of them as dead. Then a small AI model on my own laptop wrote a tombstone for each one.

Hacktober-Fest-In-Peace is a Dead Link Cemetery. You give it your bookmarks (or any list of URLs), and it does four things:

For the theme, I treated websites as things that live and die. Halloween has the graveyard, and Día de los Muertos has the remembering. A bookmark is a small promise that you'll come back to a page someday, and for most pages, nobody ever does. My tool goes back and says goodbye.

The idea came from a simple fact: every old bookmarks folder is a graveyard nobody has visited.

I ran it on a demo list of 26 old links (famous dead services plus 6 fake addresses I planted on purpose). It flagged 15 as dead and counted 11 as alive. All 6 planted fakes were caught.

Finds your dead bookmarks, digs up their old copies from the Wayback Machine, and lets a local Gemma model write an epitaph for each one.

The AI runs on your own machine. Link checking still contacts each site, and Wayback lookups send those URLs to archive.org.

Built for Hacktoberfest Week 5: Ghost in the Machine.