Hacker News Reader

What kind of hackathon is this?

I suspect a lot of them is just to get folks to do some things and people with the skills to investigate in detail aren't all the interested in investing the time.

View on HN

It was a vibe coding hackathon, but many were industry professionals. Winner was a senior engineer from Intuit, but the product does not even work. Everything faked in Video, product does not even navigate from one page to another without error crash, but still the guy won. Some did not even submitted the hosted url of project, yet won. Another winner is literally mock data dashboard, everyone says either its rigged or organizers were very reckless, just randomly choose those projects. Organizers don't wanna admit it so, they are banning critics from everywhere they can control. Total amount on prize is $1M, winner get 100k.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com