Friday Hacks Special Edition: Lightning Talks!
(A series of short ~20 min talks)
Talk 1: I made a Mac app to replace the default app switcher
By: Richard Qi
I felt there were many ways to improve the default app switcher on Mac, so I created my own replacement using Swift. In this talk, I’ll share a bit about my journey so far in building and marketing it!
Talk 2: Predict My Pancreas for Fun and Profit
By: Wong Kok Rui
Kok Rui is a graduating NUS Hackers coreteam member who was recently told he has an incurable disease. We discuss how to reverse-engineer your continuous glucose monitor's API to hack together a betting market on your blood glucose levels so your friends can earn fake internet points... and maybe you can learn more about your health!
Talk 3: Open-Source Productivity Tools for University
By: Lam Chun Yu
We discuss various editors, shells, environments to create a productive and opinionated setup for university! Come to find out some cool software you might not have heard of, or some software you've never really utilized to it's fullest potential
(A series of short ~20 min talks)
Talk 1: I made a Mac app to replace the default app switcher
By: Richard Qi
I felt there were many ways to improve the default app switcher on Mac, so I created my own replacement using Swift. In this talk, I’ll share a bit about my journey so far in building and marketing it!
Talk 2: Predict My Pancreas for Fun and Profit
By: Wong Kok Rui
Kok Rui is a graduating NUS Hackers coreteam member who was recently told he has an incurable disease. We discuss how to reverse-engineer your continuous glucose monitor's API to hack together a betting market on your blood glucose levels so your friends can earn fake internet points... and maybe you can learn more about your health!
Talk 3: Open-Source Productivity Tools for University
By: Lam Chun Yu
We discuss various editors, shells, environments to create a productive and opinionated setup for university! Come to find out some cool software you might not have heard of, or some software you've never really utilized to it's fullest potential
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Hi hackers! See you at the last Friday Hacks of the semester tomorrow @7pm - a special edition series of short lightning talks!
Sign up now and see you there! 👋
Sign up now and see you there! 👋
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Friday Hacks #268, 15 November 2024, 7pm
Our weekly Friday meetups are called Friday Hacks. To end off the semester, we will be having a special edition of Friday Hacks, where we hold a series of short ~15-20 minute lightning talks!
Do join our telegram channels (https://linktr.ee/nushackers) to…
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We are excited to announce that Hack&Roll 2025 is coming soon 🎉
Hack&Roll is an annual hackathon organised by NUS Hackers, and we need your help to make it a success! If you are passionate about technology and this sounds exciting to you, please sign up here (by Thursday, 28th November 2359) to indicate your interest.
We are looking for volunteers to help participants with their projects, and to help us with event logistics:
Technical Helpdesk
If you like assisting people with technical issues, you’ll probably enjoy this role. Hack&Roll is entirely open-ended so you will get to face novel and exciting challenges.
We are looking for poeple who like to get their hands dirty and love to help others with technical challenges!
Logistics
Hack&Roll is the largest student-run hackathon in Singapore. That means, we will have a ton of logisitics to handle!
If you’d like to help us handle >1000 slices of pizza 🍕, or giving out swag 😎 to over 750 hackers, join us as a logistics volunteer!
Hack&Roll is an annual hackathon organised by NUS Hackers, and we need your help to make it a success! If you are passionate about technology and this sounds exciting to you, please sign up here (by Thursday, 28th November 2359) to indicate your interest.
We are looking for volunteers to help participants with their projects, and to help us with event logistics:
Technical Helpdesk
If you like assisting people with technical issues, you’ll probably enjoy this role. Hack&Roll is entirely open-ended so you will get to face novel and exciting challenges.
We are looking for poeple who like to get their hands dirty and love to help others with technical challenges!
Logistics
Hack&Roll is the largest student-run hackathon in Singapore. That means, we will have a ton of logisitics to handle!
If you’d like to help us handle >1000 slices of pizza 🍕, or giving out swag 😎 to over 750 hackers, join us as a logistics volunteer!
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Ho ho ho 🎅 It’s 1 December and you know what that means? NUS Hackers Advent of Code time! 🎄
Advent of Code (AoC) has just started and will release everyday from 1st Dec to 25th Dec at 1pm SGT! AoC is 25 days of fun programming problems with varying difficulties!
This is NOT a competition, so use this opportunity to make some friends while working on fun problems and to learn a new programming language!
In the spirit of giving, we will also be giving away some goodies 🎁 to 15 randomly drawn people on the leaderboard!
To be eligible, you will need to win
Join our Discord server to learn more about AoC (
Happy hacking and hope to see everyone on the leaderboard 🧑🎄
Advent of Code (AoC) has just started and will release everyday from 1st Dec to 25th Dec at 1pm SGT! AoC is 25 days of fun programming problems with varying difficulties!
This is NOT a competition, so use this opportunity to make some friends while working on fun problems and to learn a new programming language!
In the spirit of giving, we will also be giving away some goodies 🎁 to 15 randomly drawn people on the leaderboard!
To be eligible, you will need to win
>= 20 ⭐ (you can get at most 2 a day) and join the NUS Hackers private leaderboard (code: 3247510-b3c84eb7 ).Join our Discord server to learn more about AoC (
#what-is-aoc ), talk about problems ( #aoc-chat ), and share your solutions ( #aoc-solutions )!Happy hacking and hope to see everyone on the leaderboard 🧑🎄
Discord
Join the NUS Hackers Discord Server!
Check out the NUS Hackers community on Discord - hang out with 1406 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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Registration for the BIGGEST student-run hackathon in Singapore, Hack&Roll 2025, is OPEN!
Register now HERE - and sign up quickly, as spots may go fast before you can say 'QUACK'!
Register now HERE - and sign up quickly, as spots may go fast before you can say 'QUACK'!
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Remember when we said spots may go quicker than you can say ‘QUACK’? We weren’t kidding! 💨
Slots for Hack&Roll 2025 registration are closing soon, so make sure to check you’ve verified your account and submitted the registration form if you wish to participate!
For those who haven’t registered yet, there’s still a chance! Click here to get started!
See y’all soon! 🥰
Slots for Hack&Roll 2025 registration are closing soon, so make sure to check you’ve verified your account and submitted the registration form if you wish to participate!
For those who haven’t registered yet, there’s still a chance! Click here to get started!
See y’all soon! 🥰
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📢 Exciting Workshop Alert!
Introduction to Data Engineering Pipelines: Web Scraping, Kafka, Data Storage, and Visualization
🌐 Ready to supercharge your hackathon projects? Join this engaging workshop conducted by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨ Marshall Wace, a leading global asset manager renowned for its innovative use of data and technology in investment strategies.
What You'll Learn:
🔹 Web Scraping: Build Python Scrapy crawlers to collect valuable datasets.
🔹 Real-Time Data Streaming: Harness the power of Kafka for dynamic data inputs.
🔹 Data Storage & Management: Simplify your workflow with SQLite.
🔹 Data Visualization: Create interactive dashboards with Plotly Dash (no advanced JS needed!).
Don’t miss this chance to gain practical, hands-on data engineering skills! 📊
💡 Prerequisites: Basic Python & SQL knowledge (setup guide will be shared with participants on our discord server).
📅 When: 9th Jan, Thursday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-04
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!
👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-1-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!
Introduction to Data Engineering Pipelines: Web Scraping, Kafka, Data Storage, and Visualization
🌐 Ready to supercharge your hackathon projects? Join this engaging workshop conducted by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨ Marshall Wace, a leading global asset manager renowned for its innovative use of data and technology in investment strategies.
What You'll Learn:
🔹 Web Scraping: Build Python Scrapy crawlers to collect valuable datasets.
🔹 Real-Time Data Streaming: Harness the power of Kafka for dynamic data inputs.
🔹 Data Storage & Management: Simplify your workflow with SQLite.
🔹 Data Visualization: Create interactive dashboards with Plotly Dash (no advanced JS needed!).
Don’t miss this chance to gain practical, hands-on data engineering skills! 📊
💡 Prerequisites: Basic Python & SQL knowledge (setup guide will be shared with participants on our discord server).
📅 When: 9th Jan, Thursday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-04
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!
👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-1-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!
participant.hacknroll.nushackers.org
Hack&Roll 2025 Participant Dashboard
Participant dashboard for NUS Hackers Hack&Roll 2025
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📢 Exciting Workshop Alert!
Building Full-Stack Web Apps with User Authentication & Data Persistence using Supabase
Join us for a hands-on workshop conducted by our ✨ Bronze Sponsor ✨ Supabase!
You'll learn how to build full-stack web applications with seamless user authentication and data persistence. We'll be leveraging Supabase, a powerful open-source backend-as-a-service built on PostgreSQL, to manage user details and sessions effortlessly.
What You'll Learn:
🔹 Setting up a Supabase project
🔹 Implementing user authentication
🔹 Managing data persistence with PostgreSQL
🔹 Exploring modern AI tools like v0.dev, bolt.new, and lovable.dev to prototype applications faster.
Whether you're a budding developer or looking to refine your full-stack skills, this workshop is perfect for you! 🚀
🗓 When: 10th Jan, Friday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-06
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!
👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-2-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!
Building Full-Stack Web Apps with User Authentication & Data Persistence using Supabase
Join us for a hands-on workshop conducted by our ✨ Bronze Sponsor ✨ Supabase!
You'll learn how to build full-stack web applications with seamless user authentication and data persistence. We'll be leveraging Supabase, a powerful open-source backend-as-a-service built on PostgreSQL, to manage user details and sessions effortlessly.
What You'll Learn:
🔹 Setting up a Supabase project
🔹 Implementing user authentication
🔹 Managing data persistence with PostgreSQL
🔹 Exploring modern AI tools like v0.dev, bolt.new, and lovable.dev to prototype applications faster.
Whether you're a budding developer or looking to refine your full-stack skills, this workshop is perfect for you! 🚀
🗓 When: 10th Jan, Friday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-06
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!
👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-2-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!
Supabase
Careers | Supabase
Help build software developers love
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Hey everyone!
Reminder that our first pre-event technical workshop is in less than ~1 hours' time!
🎟 Introduction to Data Engineering Pipelines: Web Scraping, Kafka, Data Storage, and Visualization
🕧 Today, 6:00 to 8:00pm SGT,
📍COM1-02-04
If you have successfully RSVP'd, make sure to join the discord server and follow the setup guide provided here before the workshop.
All those who have successfully RSVP’d to the workshop would have received an email from us to their inboxes with an invite to the Hack&Roll discord server.
We will also be providing free dinner 🍱 to all attendees!
Reminder that our first pre-event technical workshop is in less than ~1 hours' time!
🎟 Introduction to Data Engineering Pipelines: Web Scraping, Kafka, Data Storage, and Visualization
🕧 Today, 6:00 to 8:00pm SGT,
📍COM1-02-04
If you have successfully RSVP'd, make sure to join the discord server and follow the setup guide provided here before the workshop.
All those who have successfully RSVP’d to the workshop would have received an email from us to their inboxes with an invite to the Hack&Roll discord server.
We will also be providing free dinner 🍱 to all attendees!
🚀 Hack&Roll 2025 Workshop Alert! 🚀
🎯 Building a Mini Search Engine: From Crawling to Searching
🔍 Curious about how search engines work? Join this hands-on workshop, proudly brought to you by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨, Ahrefs. Alexandre Bourquelot, Backend Engineer at Ahrefs, will guide you through building a small-scale search engine in Python!
💻 What You'll Learn:
🔹 Crawling: Extract text content from web pages.
🔹 Indexing: Build an in-memory index for fast data retrieval.
🔹 Searching: Implement simple search functionality to return relevant pages for your queries.
💡 Pre-setup Requirements:
🔹 Access to Google Colab
🔹 (Optional) Local Python3 installation if you prefer coding on your own machine
📅 When: 14th January, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM3-01-22
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!
🌟 Don’t miss out on this opportunity to dive into the world of search engines and learn from industry experts!
👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-3-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!
🎯 Building a Mini Search Engine: From Crawling to Searching
🔍 Curious about how search engines work? Join this hands-on workshop, proudly brought to you by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨, Ahrefs. Alexandre Bourquelot, Backend Engineer at Ahrefs, will guide you through building a small-scale search engine in Python!
💻 What You'll Learn:
🔹 Crawling: Extract text content from web pages.
🔹 Indexing: Build an in-memory index for fast data retrieval.
🔹 Searching: Implement simple search functionality to return relevant pages for your queries.
💡 Pre-setup Requirements:
🔹 Access to Google Colab
🔹 (Optional) Local Python3 installation if you prefer coding on your own machine
📅 When: 14th January, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM3-01-22
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!
🌟 Don’t miss out on this opportunity to dive into the world of search engines and learn from industry experts!
👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-3-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!
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🚀 Hack&Roll 2025 Workshop Alert! 🚀
🎯 Web App development using Streamlit
🌐 Ready to supercharge your hackathon projects? Join this engaging workshop conducted by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨ ST Engineering, a global technology, defence and engineering group.
💻 What You'll Learn:
🔹 Building web apps without frontend knowledge.
🔹 How to use Streamlit for data applications.
💡 Prerequisites: Basic Python knowledge
📅 When: 15th Jan, Wednesday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-06
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!
🌟 Don’t miss this chance to gain practical, hands-on web development skills! 🌐✨
👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-4-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!
🎯 Web App development using Streamlit
🌐 Ready to supercharge your hackathon projects? Join this engaging workshop conducted by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨ ST Engineering, a global technology, defence and engineering group.
💻 What You'll Learn:
🔹 Building web apps without frontend knowledge.
🔹 How to use Streamlit for data applications.
💡 Prerequisites: Basic Python knowledge
📅 When: 15th Jan, Wednesday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-06
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!
🌟 Don’t miss this chance to gain practical, hands-on web development skills! 🌐✨
👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-4-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!
Stengg
Careers | ST Engineering
Explore a wide range of job opportunities with ST Engineering worldwide. Join us and share your career!
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🚀 Hack&Roll 2025 Workshop Alert! 🚀
🎯 OKX Presents : Building the Future of Scalable and Resilient Systems
🌐 Ready to supercharge your hackathon projects? Join this engaging workshop conducted by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨ OKX, an innovative cryptocurrency exchange with advanced financial services.
💻 What You'll Learn:
You'll learn the essentials of constructing an exchange from the ground up, followed by a hands-on journey through implementing a modern read-write separation system to manage high workloads efficiently.
📅 When: 16th Jan, Thursday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-06
🌟 Don’t miss this chance to gain practical, hands-on scalable design experience! ✨
👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-5-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!
🎯 OKX Presents : Building the Future of Scalable and Resilient Systems
🌐 Ready to supercharge your hackathon projects? Join this engaging workshop conducted by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨ OKX, an innovative cryptocurrency exchange with advanced financial services.
💻 What You'll Learn:
You'll learn the essentials of constructing an exchange from the ground up, followed by a hands-on journey through implementing a modern read-write separation system to manage high workloads efficiently.
📅 When: 16th Jan, Thursday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-06
🌟 Don’t miss this chance to gain practical, hands-on scalable design experience! ✨
👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-5-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!
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📢 Workshop Announcements!
Hey everyone
Just a few short announcements on the upcoming workshops for Hack&Roll 2025!
OKX Workshop Sign-Up: Don’t miss out! Sign up now to secure your spot for the upcoming workshop by OKX on 16th Jan. Sign Up Here: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-5-signup
Web App development using Streamlit workshop is tomorrow! Last chance to Join us at COM1-02-06 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Sign Up Here: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-4-signup
See you there! 😊
Hey everyone
Just a few short announcements on the upcoming workshops for Hack&Roll 2025!
OKX Workshop Sign-Up: Don’t miss out! Sign up now to secure your spot for the upcoming workshop by OKX on 16th Jan. Sign Up Here: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-5-signup
Web App development using Streamlit workshop is tomorrow! Last chance to Join us at COM1-02-06 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Sign Up Here: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-4-signup
See you there! 😊
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OKX Presents : Building the Future of Scalable and Resilient Systems will be at COM1-02-06 Seminar Room 1, starting soon at 6pm today!
See you there! 😊
(psst, everyone feel free to join)
See you there! 😊
(psst, everyone feel free to join)
📢 Workshop Announcements!
We have uploaded the recording for the following workshops on our youtube channel:
Building full stack web apps by Supabase : https://youtu.be/XahKjJtmhys
Building a Mini Search Enginer by Ahrefs : https://youtu.be/IAGHoZwo83I
Web App development using Streamlit by ST Engineering : https://youtu.be/90k2yU4FMgo
All the best for Hack&Roll 2025! We look forward to see you guys there! 😊
We have uploaded the recording for the following workshops on our youtube channel:
Building full stack web apps by Supabase : https://youtu.be/XahKjJtmhys
Building a Mini Search Enginer by Ahrefs : https://youtu.be/IAGHoZwo83I
Web App development using Streamlit by ST Engineering : https://youtu.be/90k2yU4FMgo
All the best for Hack&Roll 2025! We look forward to see you guys there! 😊
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Hey everyone,
Thank you all for coming down to Hack&Roll 2025 🎉. It was a blast for us to organise, and it was truly amazing to see so many unique and creative hacks! Some of you might not have won prizes, but all of you won our hearts ❤️ Here are some of our favourite photos from the event 📸. We’ve uploaded all the other photos here.
As usual, Friday Hacks and Hackerschool are resuming this semester and we hope to see you around! Stay updated with us here or @nushackers on Instagram 🤩.
Have a great semester ahead!
– Coreteam 🧡
Thank you all for coming down to Hack&Roll 2025 🎉. It was a blast for us to organise, and it was truly amazing to see so many unique and creative hacks! Some of you might not have won prizes, but all of you won our hearts ❤️ Here are some of our favourite photos from the event 📸. We’ve uploaded all the other photos here.
As usual, Friday Hacks and Hackerschool are resuming this semester and we hope to see you around! Stay updated with us here or @nushackers on Instagram 🤩.
Have a great semester ahead!
– Coreteam 🧡
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