Interviews

This weekend, I had the honour of organising and running HackLondon, the largest UK hackathon I've ever been to, organised or seen with my own eyes. I had the pleasure of working with a team of inspiring and...

I'm often told that Software is Sexy and that, for some reason, Hardware is Decidedly Not. The breakdown in many hackathons support this thought. We don't have exact numbers on this (though I'm considering...

Hackathon culture should be a global, cultural phenomenon. We here at MLH are big believers in that. This past year, we started up MLH UK to greater foster college hackathons all across educational...

"There were absolutely no exceptions and no excuses." Meet Sahat Yalkabov. Last year, as he kicked off his senior year at the City College of New York, Sahat decided to code for 365 days straight -- a...

Jonathan Wegener is the co-founder of TimeHop, which began as "4Square&7YearsAgo" at the Foursquare hackathon in 2011. He gave a video interview to Major League Hacking co-founder Jonathan Gottfried about...

Naveen Selvadurai, who co-founded Foursquare, talked to Major League Hacking co-founder Jonathan Gottfried about his fascination with the concept of a "quantified self". "'Quantified self' is a term that...

Ruby on Rails developer James Cropcho, known for his voting security research and MongoDB schema analyzer Variety, sat down with Major League Hacking co-founder Jonathan Gottfried for a video...

Winning a hackathon looks great on a resume or grad school application, and it provides nerd bragging rights, but what happens to winning projects when the event ends? Hack Princeton is known for its...

MHacks is well underway, and over a thousand hackers are currently flooding the EECS and BBB buildings at the University of Michigan. MLH News is currently on the scene, and we sat down with MHacks Director...

An Interview with GeauxHack Organizer Howard Wang GeauxHack is currently underway, where hundreds of Louisiana State University student hackers are busy cranking the best hacks that the South can offer. We...