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A comment on Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?.

Re:Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing? by red_Seashell_32 on Thursday February 19, 2026 @01:45PM (#47077412)
Last hackathon I participated in was merely "best presentation". Code, app did not matter, it was idea and presentation what mattered.

Thankfully, properly working app won that one, nonetheless they suck now.

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Re:Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing? by OccamsMirror on Saturday February 21, 2026 @12:10AM (#47097709)
In my experience they've always been this way. Real engineers lose to idiots that can knock out a nice Wordpress website. Now the way real engineers lose to idiots that can vibe out a nice UI.

Same same, but different.

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