Meta Hacker Cup 2024
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 22nd.
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.
Yayyy... Finally it's happening! Another chance for a T-Shirt!!
2023 season?
Nice catch, thanks!
It's happening!! Super excited!
yay , super excited !!!!
how hard to be ranked in 2000 in Meta Hacker Cup compare to Div1+2 round in cf?
I'm genuinely curious
Yayy.... it's happening!!! very excited to participate for the first time.
why doesnt hacker cup use simple testing like codeforces does. i had a really hard time last season
Counting down the days to Meta Hacker Cup 2024. Long live Hacker Cup!
Too bad Codeforces doesn't have "haha" react
Because the ai submissions will fall on their face?
nice, i am excited! i hope ill get t-shirt :)
Same thing every year. Make promises to change submission format at the end of the year, and keep it same the next year :clown:
Real sad Google stopped organizing. They were the only ones who did annual programming contests right.
https://mirror.codeforces.com/blog/entry/119880?#comment-1063469
Where did they promise?
Maybe 'promise' wasn't the right word, but I've been here long enough to recall SecondThread talking about updating the format. Even the comment you linked says they are looking into it. It used to be a fine format when there were so many annual contests, and it diversified the submission formats a bit. Now, I think it may be time to consider updating it for real. The only reason I can think of for not doing so is that they actually haven't put in any effort. Anyway, good luck everyone, may the stack limit be with you.
Perhaps they looked into it, decided it wasn't right for whatever reason, and moved on. Why do people want to make contests as same and boring as possible?
By boring you're talking about a submission format that reduces stress for participants? I'm sure it even reduces stress for them cos they won't have to answer hundreds of clarifications.
nvm
I wanted to point out that the date of the finals coincides with the date of the Putnam collegiate math competition. It is not uncommon for people who are interested in competitive programming to also take part in such math competitions. Perhaps this could be looked at.
Sir, is the submission system same like last time? If yes, please change it to like some online judges or like codeforces.
and
Why are we not allowing a contestant participate in both the human track and the AI track?
How will the T-Shirt be looking this year
why dont u post youtube streams nowadays
love your channel
Instead of having a timer for test data download, will AI participants have a timer for problem statement download? :pepesmug:
Yep. And your timer will start when the contest starts. So it’ll be like a 6 minute contest basically.
Finally!!
Is the judge system same as before like locally running and submit results?