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Major League Hacking
Company blog · mlh.io/blogculture
Major League Hacking is the company blog at mlh.io, writing about culture. Since 2013, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “The official league of hackers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Major League Hacking for its hackathon event listings and for personal stories about first hackathons. Commenters single out one hackathon story as inspiring.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Major League Hacking empowers students through hackathons, developer programs, and global community events for the next generation of engineers.
Most-linked posts?
- The official league of hackers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-03-28
- Hacking Events2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-09
What Hacker News says?
Major League Hacking | Engineering & Marketing Roles | Full Time, Part Time | Onsite, Remote | http://mlh.io We work with the largest community of student developers in the world to help them become amazing hackers. Major League Hacking (MLH) works with student organizers across the globe to put on events on their campus. We're a B-Corp that's been around for four years and work with 200+ events per year for 65,000…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Maryland Wins the Fall 2013 Hackathon Season as a story · 50 points
HN discussionMajor League Hacking (MLH) | Developer & Designer | New York, NY | ONSITE | Part-time, Contract, Freelance Major League Hacking (MLH) is building a small team of developers and designers to help us educate and empower our community. Every year, thousands of developers, designers, and makers attend MLH events where they learn new skills and develop a deep passion for technology. You'll help us translate our goals int…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)”Submitted Talks from Hackcon, the first Hackathon Organizers' Conference as a story · 31 points
HN discussionhttps://mlh.io/seasons/s2016/events Is very popular for promotion.
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on “Hackathon Be Gone”Submitted How To Judge a Hackathon – Finding the Chosen One as a story · 23 points
HN discussionAs someone who's spent a lot of time with both developer relations and Hackathons in general, here are my top 5 insights from this analysis. 1. The Major League Hacking hardware lab is HUGE for hardware companies. Top 5 have all been there since day zero. New additional are all rising. http://mlh.io/hardware-lab 2. In every API category, the companies with the best developer relations programs are in the top 3 perfo…
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on “The most popular APIs and tech at college hackathons”Submitted Are Hackathon Prizes The Worst Thing Since Moldy Sliced Bread? as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThe author of YoAuth (Bilawal) is one of the awesome student hackers helping to bring the hackathon movement to the UK. http://mlh.io/about/team#uk-team
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on “YoAuth”Submitted How do university hackers stack up? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionAn inspiring read - I know of so many people that got dragged to their first hackathon thanks to persistent friends, myself included! Every single hackathon I've been to since have inspired me in one way or another - be it trying out the latest tech, the buzz from working on a hack over a short period of time, or just meeting & sharing the weekend with super awesome people! The hacker ethos is extremely transferrabl…
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on “My Second Hackathon Changed My Life”Submitted The official league of hackers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLoved this story. I can completely sympathize. I had been programming in school and for fun a little before my first hackathon, however I had not yet made any "real" apps. I attended my first hackathon a few years ago (pretty sure Jon was there). Like Jon, I joined a team of people with much more experienced than myself. They taught me a lot, helped me get started, and got me hooked on hackathons. After this hackath…
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on “My Second Hackathon Changed My Life”Submitted Major League Hacking 2021 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you're a student and are interested in finding a hackathon near you to participate in, check out https://mlh.io/events for a list of great events in North America and https://mlh.io/eu for events in Europe. As someone who got their start at student hackathons (I wanted to be a lawyer before I went to my first one) and as someone who has been to hundreds of these in my life, I can definitely testify to the importa…
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on “The Hackathon Fast Track: From Campus to Silicon Valley”Submitted Hacking Events as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've been saying this for a few months now. Although I love what the learn2code movement is trying to do, what people really want is to learn how to build things. To facilitate this, we started Major League Hacking ( http://mlh.io ), the NCAA of Hackathons. Since it's inception last year, we've had over 10,000 students take part in MLH Hackathons. A large number of those students had never built something before. Ma…
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on “Learn To Build”> Would a HackAfrica event having nothing to do with African problems be appropriate? Yeah I would imagine that would just be a hackathon taking place in Africa. Unfortunately, I think you're just causing a stink for no reason, and you're not too familiar with the undergrad 'hacker' culture. Take a look at these names and tell me which ones you don't like: https://mlh.io/seasons/f2015/events Something tells me it wi…
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on “YC at Hack the North”Not all hackathons are nearly as bad as this mentions. I've found that CodeDay ( http://CodeDay.org ) as well as the hackathons part of Major League Hacks ( http://mlh.io ) have adhered to most of what the ideal hackathon constitutes as per this article.
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on “Hackathons done wrong”Don't forget the trophy too. Whatever school has the most points at the end of the season gets to keep it. http://mlh.io/img/trophy/4.jpg http://mlh.io/img/trophy/5.jpg
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on “How do university hackers stack up?”I dropped out of high school at 15 and moved out at 16. Currently 21 and running https://hackclub.com . I know that when I was in his shoes, I felt like I tried everything to find meaning (community college classes, reading books, learning new subjects, etc), but it took me literally moving out and into a group house in San Francisco to find a community of other people like me (see https://stories.californiasunday.c…
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on “Ask HN: Advice for accomplished but unchallenged high school senior”I saw it on MLH website, it looks great! https://mlh.io/seasons/na-2017/events
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on “Show HN: Hackatown, First Polytechnique Montreal Hackathon”Depends what you're into and where you are, but these are the ones I'm keeping an eye on: https://devpost.com/hackathons https://www.eventbrite.com/d/online/hackathon/ https://mlh.io/seasons/2023/events https://www.iquise.mit.edu/iQuHACK/2023-01-27 Itch.io is where I'd start for game jams: https://itch.io/jams If you happen to be near Germany/Europe and into games then I had fun at the Berlin Mini Jam when I went pr…
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Working on This Year?”
