{
  "id": 17462159,
  "title": "Beyond Tutorials: Our First Hackathon and Open Source Experience",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/beyond-tutorials-our-first-hackathon-and-open-source-experience",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-31T20:00:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/gurjotkalsi/beyond-tutorials-our-first-hackathon-and-open-source-experience-1ifg"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Gurjot, a first-year student at Alta School of Technology, shares their experience of participating in their first hackathon and open-source development project with their team, KOS. The project, Reachable Vulnerability Analyzer, aims to analyze whether a vulnerable function inside a dependency is actually reachable from the application's code. The author reflects on the learning curve they experienced, from understanding the project structure and setting up the development environment to tackling the technical challenges of the cybersecurity-focused problem.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}