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Mentee sign-ups for Quacker's First Intern will close on Wednesday, 10 June, at 23:59. Please ensure you have registered by then! Sign up at https://hckr.cc/qi-26-mentee!

Thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday! Whether you missed it or just want to review, you can access the recording and slides for the Quacker's First Intern panel discussion here: • Slides: https://hckr.cc/oCe2S • Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Tp1-wUcQ8

👋 Hi everyone, We’re happy to share that we are opening Quacker's First Intern for 2026! 🎉 If you're looking to get a head start on internship recruitment, this is the program for you! Previously known as Project Intern (not the tele group), we aim to match you with mentors from with industry experience in big tech, startups, research and more! Through a 1-to-1 mentorship session, your mentor can help you with personal career guidance, or even conduct mock interviews and resume reviews. 👀 Note: The mentorship program is open to incoming students as well as students from any university (not just NUS)! Sign up at https://hckr.cc/qi-26-mentee! PS: If you missed the webinar, you can find the slides here!

Hi all, the room is open! You can join the webinar at: https://hckr.cc/qi-26-webinar!

A friendly reminder that we will be hosting Quacker’s First Intern Panel Discussion tomorrow! If you have any questions about internships across different fields, this is a great opportunity to hear from and engage with our panelists. We hope to see you there! 🗓️ Saturday, 30th May ⏰ 7:00pm to 8:30pm 📍 On Zoom: https://hckr.cc/qi-26-webinar!

Wondering how to land your first internship? Lost on how to navigate a career in tech? Unsure if AI is coming for your job? 📋 Join us for an informative session on how you can best prepare yourself for internship recruitment season (i.e timelime, resume, interview and much more!) 📢 Stick around for a panel discussion featuring speakers from various fields and gain insights as they share their perspectives. Look out for details about mentorship from panelists and other mentors at the end of the talk! 👀 🗓️ Saturday, 30th May ⏰ 7:00pm to 8:30pm 📍 On Zoom You can join the meeting at https://hckr.cc/qi-26-webinar! See you there 👋

Hey everyone, hope you're having a good summer break so far! If you've attended any of our Hackerschool workshops this past semester, we'd really appreciate if you could give us some quick feedback (< 5min) in the form below. It will help us better plan the sessions for next sem :) https://hckr.cc/hs-feedback Even if you didn't attend any of the workshops, feel free to let us know in the form if there's anything you'd like to see us cover in next sem's hackerschool! All feedback is welcomed :))

Remember to sign up! Thinking Fast and Slow with AI Agents and Everything I Hate About Computer Vision (And Why I'm Still Doing It) 📝 (NUS and Non-NUS) Sign up HERE! See you later at 7! 👋

Remember to sign up! Thinking Fast and Slow with AI Agents and Everything I Hate About Computer Vision (And Why I'm Still Doing It) 📝 (NUS and Non-NUS) Sign up HERE! See you later at 7! 👋

We'll be having it at COM1-02-10 (SR10) instead of our usual location!

FH #295 📅 Fri, 17 Apr, 7PM 📍 COM1 SR10 (COM1-02-10) 🍕🧋will be served! 📝 (NUS and Non-NUS) Sign up HERE! 1) Thinking Fast and Slow with AI Agents Kahneman's two systems — fast intuition and slow verification — map directly onto how AI coding agents work and fail. Binh will cover lessons learned from working with agents, his approach to strengthen both systems, and why good judgment has become even more important. Speakers Profile 🎙 By Binh, a software engineer at Momos, a Series A startup building customer platforms and AI agents for brands. 2) Everything I Hate About Computer Vision (And Why I'm Still Doing It) Computer vision often breaks in the real world, but every failed edge case is a roadmap to a more robust system. Anand will share how they turn the technical challenges of production into reliable safety solutions at Invigilo. Speakers Profile 🎙 By Anand, technical Co-Founder of Invigilo AI, shipping "Safety-as-a-Service" computer vision across 10 countries. See you there! 👋

FH #295 📅 Fri, 17 Apr, 7PM 📍 COM3 SR12 (COM3-01-21) 🍕🧋will be served! 📝 (NUS and Non-NUS) Sign up HERE! 1) Thinking Fast and Slow with AI Agents Kahneman's two systems — fast intuition and slow verification — map directly onto how AI coding agents work and fail. Binh will cover lessons learned from working with agents, his approach to strengthen both systems, and why good judgment has become even more important. Speakers Profile 🎙 By Binh, a software engineer at Momos, a Series A startup building customer platforms and AI agents for brands. 2) Everything I Hate About Computer Vision (And Why I'm Still Doing It) Computer vision often breaks in the real world, but every failed edge case is a roadmap to a more robust system. Anand will share how they turn the technical challenges of production into reliable safety solutions at Invigilo. Speakers Profile 🎙 By Anand, technical Co-Founder of Invigilo AI, shipping "Safety-as-a-Service" computer vision across 10 countries. See you there!

Hi everyone! Reminder to sign up for tomorrow’s Hackerschool PS It’s the last session for the semester 🫢 Hackerschool Week 13: Build Your Own Coding Agent 🗓 Tuesday, 14 April 6:30-8:30 pm 📍 SR13 @ COM3-01-22 🧁 Refreshments will be served! Before the session, make sure you have the followng set up! - Install git - Install uv - Install Python 3.14.2 through uv - Get an api key from Groq and Exa NUS Sign ups here Non-NUS Sign ups here See you there 👋

Hackerschool Week 13: Build Your Own Coding Agent 🗓 Tuesday, 14 April 6:30-8:30 pm 📍 SR13 @ COM3-01-22 🧁 Refreshments will be served! Writing code is great, but building something that writes code for you is a step above. AI Coding Agents are the next big thing in software engineering, moving beyond simple chat boxes to autonomous systems that can navigate repositories, fix bugs, and implement features on their own. In this workshop we will dive into the core mechanics of agentic AI: planning, tool-calling and feedback loops. You’ll learn how to "hook up" an LLM to a file system and a terminal, creating a functional agent that can actually execute tasks within a codebase. Before the session, make sure you have the followng set up! - Install git - Install uv - Install Python 3.14.2 through uv - Get an api key from Groq and Exa NUS Sign ups here Non-NUS Sign ups here

Just a reminder that today’s event is at COM1-02-10, not the usual COM3 location! See you there 👋

Hi all! Friday Hacks tomorrow will be held at our normal venue, COM3 SR12 (COM3-01-21) As a reminder, we'll be having Data Structures for Text Editors — Beyond Arrays of Arrays and Building a Trading System from Scratch (By Virtu) Remember to sign up HERE! See you there! 👋

Feel free to vote even if you are a senior! Just what you found previously useful or wished you had before orbital (Or comment here with any other suggestions you have - hopefully the comment section is fixed!)

Hey guys, thanks for coming down for the C++ hackerschool yesterday! If you missed the session, you can find the workshop resources below: recording: https://youtu.be/_-7HyNerp3U notes: https://wiki.nushackers.org/hackerschool/introduction-to-cpp slides: https://hckr.cc/hs-cpp-slides

FH #294 📅 Fri, 10 Apr, 7PM 📍 TBC! 🍕🧋will be served! 📝 (NUS and Non-NUS) Sign up HERE! 1) Data Structures for Text Editors — Beyond Arrays of Arrays Ever been curious about what data structures you could use for text editors? Are you still using an array of arrays? Find out what kind of data structures are out there. Speakers Profile 🎙 Eldon Chung is a CS2040S Lecturer who builds programs as an excuse to implement data structures. He has proven data structure impossibility results as part of his PhD. 2) Building a Trading System from Scratch (By Virtu) What is a trading system? How does it work? What are the problems that a dev in HFT would face? Hans frames this as "How do I start my own HFT?", covering infrastructure, networking, latencies, and the day to day dev work. Speakers Profile 🎙 Hans Phua is a Senior Strategy Software Engineer at Virtu Financial since 2018. He has worked on everything from monitoring tools to setting up a brand new trading desk from scratch. See you there! 👋