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Every hackathon leaderboard is more confident than its judges. Mine admits it.

Every hackathon leaderboard is more confident than its judges. Mine admits it.

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Three Judges Scored the Same Project Twice. They Disagreed With Themselves by 1.11 Points.

Three Judges Scored the Same Project Twice. They Disagreed With Themselves by 1.11 Points.

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13 min read
The server locked the scores. The judge’s screen still said “Update.”

The server locked the scores. The judge’s screen still said “Update.”

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I Built the Platform That Judges Hackathons in 72 Hours. The Hardest Bugs Were About Evidence, Not Features.

I Built the Platform That Judges Hackathons in 72 Hours. The Hardest Bugs Were About Evidence, Not Features.

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Normalizing 30 Judges Without Lying About It: the maths, a counterintuitive k, and what I chose not to build

Normalizing 30 Judges Without Lying About It: the maths, a counterintuitive k, and what I chose not to build

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10 min read
Building Juryza: Hackathon Judging You Can Defend

Building Juryza: Hackathon Judging You Can Defend

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6 min read
One SQL Update Reopened a Closed Hackathon. The Checker Still Exited 0.

One SQL Update Reopened a Closed Hackathon. The Checker Still Exited 0.

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A Missing Score Is Not a Neutral Score: Three Ways Our Hackathon Judging Maths Broke

A Missing Score Is Not a Neutral Score: Three Ways Our Hackathon Judging Maths Broke

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I built a hackathon judging app and it was too confident

I built a hackathon judging app and it was too confident

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Seven green checks and a team page that named its judges

Seven green checks and a team page that named its judges

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17 min read
Zero Dependencies, 456 Tests, and One Bug All of Them Missed

Zero Dependencies, 456 Tests, and One Bug All of Them Missed

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6 min read
1,750 Pluses Later: The Query That Could Kill Every Connection at Once

1,750 Pluses Later: The Query That Could Kill Every Connection at Once

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7 min read
One Binary, Four Jobs, Zero Dependencies: Building zeroproxy for the Zero Dependency Hackathon

One Binary, Four Jobs, Zero Dependencies: Building zeroproxy for the Zero Dependency Hackathon

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22 min read
DevGuard: A Zero-Dependency Security Scanner Built from Python's Standard Library

DevGuard: A Zero-Dependency Security Scanner Built from Python's Standard Library

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7 min read
We Shipped an Optimization Our Own Benchmark Said Not To

We Shipped an Optimization Our Own Benchmark Said Not To

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