HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle

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Post by patricki » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 3:15 AM UTC

HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle
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Re: HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle

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Post by patricki » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 3:41 AM UTC

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.

Re: HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle

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Post by oldbuzzard » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 3:50 AM 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.

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 :(

Re: HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle

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Post by igliu » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 3:59 AM UTC

oldbuzzard wrote: post #3

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.

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

Re: HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 4:17 AM 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.

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Re: HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle

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Post by gaetanrickter » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 4:29 AM UTC

Required github login? Not everybody uses github, it's a very big world when internal AI and Eng corp groups span the globe.

Re: HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle

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Post by tentakull » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 4:51 AM UTC

tl;dl: too lazy, didn't login

Re: HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle

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Post by ryankupyn » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 5:09 AM 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.

Very cool! Kudos to you guys for putting this together!

Re: HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle

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Post by numismatex » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 5:16 AM UTC

Gotta love the fact that it's only open to .edu addresses... /s

Re: HackMIT 2017 Admissions Puzzle

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Post by kornish » Mon, Jul 03, 2017, 5:21 AM UTC

gaetanrickter wrote: post #6

Required github login? Not everybody uses github, it's a very big world when internal AI and Eng corp groups span the globe.

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.