How to be a Hacker

What’s in Your HackPack is a recurring series where we take a look at the gear hackers are bringing with them to hackathons. For the inaugural installment, MLH’s creative director Aziz Ramos gives us a...

If you've been to a hackathon recently, you might have noticed a suspicious uptick in the amount of compression related projects. Seriously, they're everywhere, and it's no mystery why. One of the things that...

This post originally appeared on Stef Cohen's blog.  Today I checked the Major League Hacking website for the Spring 2016 hackathon schedule. It is seven months until the Spring 2016 season and the Spring...

You walk into your hackathon this weekend and are handed a business card from MLH and AWS with a URL on it. You head to the URL, fill out the form, and a magic $100 promo credit appears in your inbox to use on...

Four years ago today, my friend John Britton dragged me to my first hackathon. It changed my life in ways I never could have imagined. For those of you who started attending hackathons more recently, it is...

Ahoy hackers! Jon and Swift here. From this week on out, we are going to do a post a week about stuff we see at hackathons and in the hackathon community. This weekly column will give us the opportunity...

This is a cross post from the one and only Dave Fontenot. Originally posted on his blog here. A year ago today, hundreds of college students flooded an auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The stage was set...

It’s no secret that over the past three years hackathons have exploded across the country, bringing with them the opportunity for thousands of students to grow their coding skills and build a community of...