Meta Hacker Cup is back! We’re excited to announce our schedule for our 2024 season, kicking off on September 20th!
- Practice Round: Fri. September 20th, 10am Pacific (72 hours)*
- Round 1: Sat. October 5th, 10am Pacific (3 hours)
- Round 2: Sat. October 19th, 10am Pacific (3 hours)
- Round 3: Sat. November 2nd, 10am Pacific (3 hours)
- Finals: Sat. December 7th, 6am Pacific (4 hours)
*While optional, we recommend you participate in the Practice Round to familiarize yourself with our submission system before Round 1, when time will be at a premium.
The contest will be held on the Meta Hacker Cup site. Registration will open July 24th.
You can expect familiar prizes in the human track, including T-Shirts, Elite T-Shirts, and cash prizes for finalists. We’ll announce more prize details closer to Round 2.
Introducing the Meta Hacker Cup AI Track
For the first time this year, we'll also be running an AI track. In it, instead of solving problems manually, contestants will create an autonomous code generation system before the start of the contest. Each contestant can compete either in the human track or the AI track, but not both.
We hope this will create an interesting benchmark for how well state-of-the-art machines are able to perform against the best programmers in the world on complex programming tasks. If you're interested in competing in the AI track, you can join our discord server to learn more.
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Update: Round 1 is now complete. We had a flood of submissions during the last few minutes during which everyone refreshed the scoreboard and we appear to have exceeded our number of allotted DB connections. We're looking at resolving the issue now.
Update 2: Looks like we only had a small handful of people hit the limit. Connections all have recovered.