HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle

Post by MattRix » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 1:19 PM UTC

bostand wrote: post #11

kornish wrote: post #10

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The target audience for this is college kids, who these days frequently use GitHub for consuming course material (e.g. boilerplate for class assignments). Doesn't seem like a bad move on their part to avoid rolling their own account system. People like one-click auth.

Yeah, but they may not have an account on github. And I see more and more students using gitlab instead since they have free private repos

Post by moarrgan » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 4:53 PM UTC

agroot12 wrote: post #15

eqqn wrote: post #13

In case it is not obvious ( for me it wasn't ), you can only acceess the puzzle through github login button. Registering doesn't give you access to the puzzle.

Thanks for pointing that out, my first thought was the goal is to decode a bit pattern from the flickering neon sign mp4! That would have been some wasted time...

Post by grenoire » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 6:01 PM UTC

patricki wrote: post #2

Hey HN, HackMIT organizers here. This is the 2017 admissions puzzle! It contains a variety of security, AI, and RE challenges. If you're an undergrad and are one of the first 50 people to complete it you get automatic admission to HackMIT! If you start playing, feel free to join the Slack! Link is on the command center.

Post by anorphirith » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 8:42 PM UTC

igliu wrote: post #4

oldbuzzard wrote: post #3

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Just looks like a login page to me. No way to see either info on your event or your clever puzzles w/o giving up my personal info :(

Homepage: http://hackmit.org