{
  "id": 9805620,
  "title": "The Impostor Was Never Dealt. So We Made the Deal Provable.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/the-impostor-was-never-dealt-so-we-made-the-deal-provable",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-25T18:19:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/soumyadeepdey/the-impostor-was-never-dealt-so-we-made-the-deal-provable-56nk"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Back in July, Ayush Kumar and I decided to join the same hackathon as last year, but this time, we went as a team. When the MLH Midnight Hackathon opened in July, we made sure that our team wouldn't face the same situation. We built an open-source Among Us clone that determined the impostor based on player IDs. Our method worked by checking the highest player ID and making the corresponding player the impostor. This approach ensured that the player with the highest ID would be the impostor in every match.",
  "summary": "This is a submission for the MLH x DEV Writing Challenge What I Built The last time Ayush Kumar and I entered the same hackathon, he led the team that beat us. His team took first on our track. Mine took second. So when MLH's Midnight Hackathon opened in July, we made sure that couldn't happen again. This time he was on our team. What the four of us built that weekend started with nine lines of…",
  "key_points": [
    "Ayush Kumar and team joined MLH Midnight Hackathon as a team",
    "Open-source Among Us clone developed to determine impostor",
    "Highest player ID method made corresponding player impostor"
  ],
  "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."
}