Hacker News with Generative AI: Hackathons

Show HN: AI and Energy Efficiency Hackathon – 1 BTC to top team (SF, June 21) (mara.com)
MARA is gathering 100 up-and-coming engineers from across the Bay Area to solve the hardest challenges we face as energy, compute, and AI converge.
Artificial Intelligence, Energy Efficiency, Hackathons, San Francisco
10 points by hickoryhashrate 10 days ago | 4 comments
Visualizing Foursquare Places with ClickHouse (clickhouse.com)
Recently, we had an all-company offsite, where most of our company gathered together. I always use this event to organize a hackathon. This time, it was a data visualization hackathon with simple rules: you have two hours, you take a dataset and make a nice demo on top of it with ClickHouse. I also participated in this hackathon, and here is what I've made
Data Visualization, ClickHouse, Hackathons
10 points by ashvardanian 14 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now (ycombinator.com)
Been going to a bunch of hackathons in SF lately and honestly, everything feels fake. There are like 20 sponsors handing out credits for their tools that all do the same thing. Half the time, they can’t even explain what they’re for. They’re just hoping someone uses them so they can count it as adoption. Everyone jams these into projects to check a box, and what gets built is mostly BS with zero innovation.
Software Development, Hackathons, San Francisco, Startups, Technology
213 points by sepidy 19 days ago | 128 comments
Doge reportedly planning a hackathon to build 'mega API' for IRS data (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to host a hackathon next week focused on the creation of a “mega API” that will provide access to taxpayer data, according to Wired.
Cryptocurrency, Government, Data, APIs, Hackathons
29 points by rmason 47 days ago | 8 comments
Show HN: We open sourced a $50M neobank (hackclub.com)
Hack Club launched HCB in 2018 to enable hackathons to raise and spend money through fiscal sponsorship.
Open Source, Fintech, Banking, Hackathons
28 points by garyhtou 55 days ago | 4 comments
Scam pulled off in Indian hackathon, won $85k just by rebranding Brave Browser (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Scams, Hackathons, Competitions, Technology, Brave Browser
6 points by greatgib 61 days ago | 2 comments
How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon (fastcall.dev)
With all the buzz online and among my friends about GenAI Genesis 2025, a generative AI hackathon hosted at my school, the University of Toronto, I decided to apply even though I was pretty busy that weekend, hoping my schedule would clear by the time the hackathon came around. The sequence of events that followed led me into finding a vulnerability that let me accept my own hackathon application, before applications had even officially closed.
Hackathons, AI, Software, Computer Science, Security
277 points by fastcall 65 days ago | 94 comments
Show HN: We made a Meta Quest3 see through walls (medium.com)
For Treehacks 2025, my team & I decided that we needed X-Ray vision.
Augmented Reality, Hackathons, Computer Vision
50 points by sleepingreset 90 days ago | 14 comments
Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab (amoses.dev)
I’m sure that any UPL member can testify the horror of arriving to the lab to see a closed door. If you live anywhere off campus, it’s heartbreaking to see your arduous trek to the CS building result in failure.
University Life, Computer Science, Programming, Hackathons
189 points by nicosalm 214 days ago | 85 comments
Building your own personal ghostwriter (fnands.com)
This past weekend I participated in a AI hackathon organized by Factory Network and {Tech: Berlin} with my friends Axel Nordfeldt and Jonathan Nye. The sponsors were Mistral, Weaviate and LumaAI, meaning we had a bunch of fun credits to play around with.
Artificial Intelligence, Personal Projects, Hackathons
13 points by fnands 232 days ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: Are hackathons anything more than a lame distraction? (ycombinator.com)
Hackathons, Programming, Work-Life Balance
18 points by psim1 274 days ago | 27 comments
Building for Healthcare: Our First AI Hackathon (medium.com)
Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, Hackathons
11 points by etherealG 305 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: AI hackday at work – what shall I work on? (ycombinator.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Hackathons, Work
17 points by Tmkly 327 days ago | 33 comments
Join Super AI Agent Hackathon at Stanford, Hosted by HuggingFace and Nexa AI (twitter.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Hackathons, Stanford University, Hugging Face, Nexa AI
12 points by alanzhuly 331 days ago | 0 comments