https://www.nushackers.org/ Recent content on NUS Hackers Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us NUS Hackers Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.nushackers.org/2026/03/friday-hacks-293/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.nushackers.org/2026/03/friday-hacks-293/ Date/Time: March 27 at 7:00pm SGT Venue: Seminar Room 12, COM3-01-21, NUS Sign-up Link: NUSync | Luma Food 🍕 and Drinks 🧋 will be served! 1) 5 Years of Working on Python’s Performance Python and its reference implementation CPython is known to be slow. However, in the past 5 years, its performance has improved by double digits on the geometric mean of our benchmarks. In this talk, Ken Jin covers his part in an international team making CPython faster. https://www.nushackers.org/2026/03/friday-hacks-292/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.nushackers.org/2026/03/friday-hacks-292/ Date/Time: March 20 at 7:00pm SGT Venue: Seminar Room 12, COM3-01-21, NUS Sign-up Link: NUSync | Luma Food 🍕 and Drinks 🧋 will be served! 1) From ARKit to AI Video: Building a Cinematic Tool on iOS What does it take to go from idea to award-winning app in a weekend? In this talk, Varick walks through how he built StoryWorld – an AR film director app for iOS that lets anyone place 3D characters, compose cinematic shots with their phone camera, and generate AI-stylized images and video. https://www.nushackers.org/2026/03/friday-hacks-291/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.nushackers.org/2026/03/friday-hacks-291/ Date/Time: March 13 at 7:00pm SGT Venue: Seminar Room 12, COM3-01-21, NUS Sign-up Link: NUSync | Luma Food 🍕 and Drinks 🧋 will be served! 1) Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, How I Wonder Myself to Space Zhen Ning will be sharing how he ended up building a space company in Singapore and a little about the technical challenges faced along the way. He would be sharing his life experiences and how wondering about things got him into this field. https://www.nushackers.org/2026/02/friday-hacks-290/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.nushackers.org/2026/02/friday-hacks-290/ Date/Time: February 20 at 7:00pm SGT Venue: Seminar Room 12, COM3-01-21, NUS Sign-up Link: Luma Food 🍕 and Drinks 🧋 will be served! Building an Explainable AI Analyst for Company Intelligence What if you could ask, “Which companies are expansion-ready?” and get a grounded, data-backed answer in seconds — not a hallucinated guess? In this talk, we share how we built IntelliCompany AI, an explainable company intelligence platform that combines clustering, feature engineering, and a guardrail-constrained LLM to generate defensible business insights. https://www.nushackers.org/2026/02/15/hnr2026/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.nushackers.org/2026/02/15/hnr2026/ Thank you all for coming down to Hack&Roll 2026! 🎉 It was an absolute blast for us to organise Singapore’s largest student-run hackathon once again! When we plan this event every January, our goal is always to celebrate true hacker culture and create an environment where you can have the freedom to simply build for fun. This year, we introduced something special to the Hack&Roll pacakge, our first ever custom PCB badge! https://www.nushackers.org/2026/02/friday-hacks-289/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.nushackers.org/2026/02/friday-hacks-289/ Date/Time: February 13 at 7:00pm SGT Venue: COM3 MPH Sign-up Link: Sign-up here Food 🍕 and Drinks 🧋 will be served! Keeping state straight in distributed systems At Jane Street, we rely heavily on inter-process communication and real-time message passing to drive many of our most critical systems, including those that ingest market data and implement trading strategies. As we scale up the number of components, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to reason about the consistency and correctness of the overall system. https://www.nushackers.org/2026/02/friday-hacks-288/ Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:20:00 +0000 https://www.nushackers.org/2026/02/friday-hacks-288/ Join us on February 6 for Friday Hacks #288 featuring ‘Information Warfare: How the Internet Became a Battlefield’ and some cool Hack&Roll projects: ‘Wi-Find and Oz: The Generative OS’. Don’t miss out on food, drinks, and insightful discussions! https://www.nushackers.org/2026/01/friday-hacks-287/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:20:00 +0000 https://www.nushackers.org/2026/01/friday-hacks-287/ Join us on January 30 for Friday Hacks #287 featuring ‘NUSMods: Building the timetable planner NUS relies on’ and ‘Quack & Roll: Making an electronic badge for over 1,000’. Don’t miss out on food, drinks, and insightful discussions! https://www.nushackers.org/2025/11/friday-hacks-286/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:08:00 +0000 https://www.nushackers.org/2025/11/friday-hacks-286/ Join us on November 14 for Friday Hacks #286 featuring ‘Strategic Platform for Autonomous Resilient and Trusted Agents @ NUS (SPARTAN)’ and ‘Automating Kubernetes Deployments on Azure with Terraform: From Infrastructure to Workload’. Don’t miss out on food, drinks, and insightful discussions! https://www.nushackers.org/2025/11/friday-hacks-285/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:08:00 +0000 https://www.nushackers.org/2025/11/friday-hacks-285/ Join us on November 7 for Friday Hacks #285 featuring ‘From 1G to 6G: The Evolution and Future of Mobile Communication Technologies’ and ‘Secret Management Made Simple with HashiCorp Vault’. Don’t miss out on food, drinks, and insightful discussions!