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Re:Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now – anyone else noticing t... by dabockster on Monday May 05, 2025 @02:21PM (#43897889)
> I've never lived in SF so maybe it was more of a thing there.

Yeah it's definitely more of an SF/SV thing for sure, if they're even still happening. Seattle had some hackathons and Dubhacks is still a thing (I think?), but they fizzled out by 2019 and Covid ended whatever was left. NYC had some as well, iirc, but they went away too along the same timeline.

Re:Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now – anyone else noticing t... by hadlock on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @12:23PM (#43906893)
The last one I attended was one Pager Duty ran in 2019 it was well attended, with ~20+ teams of 6