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Hackerschool week 11 is happening in 10mins! join us at SR14 @ COM3-01-23 to learn how to make plugins on Minecraft!

Hi everyone, Hackerschool Week 11 is happening later today! For those who signed up, a gentle reminder to install IntelliJ IDEA and Java 25 using THIS GUIDE before the session. (Let's not nuke the school wifi with the downloads during the session) 🌊 Tuesday, 27 October, 7:00–9:00 pm 📍 SR14 @ COM3-01-23 🍎 Refreshments will be served! Sign up here!

Friday Hacks #304 with Sierra 📅 Fri, 30 October, 7PM 📍 COM3 SR12 🍕🧋will be served! Sign up HERE! Talk 1: Trust is the Product: Deploying AI agents to Highly Regulated Enterprises ​Sierra builds the AI agents behind customer service at over 40% of the Fortune 500. Learn the engineering that wins them over. Company & Speaker Profile: ​Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands to transform how they serve customers. ​Shaun Livingston is an Agent Engineer at Sierra and part of the founding team at Sierra in Singapore, building AI agents that banks and insurers trust in front of millions of customers. ​Talk 2: ​What is Software Engineering in 2026? ​What does it mean to be a software engineer in the age of coding agents and LLMs? Explore how SWE is changing, and why hacker culture and good SWE practices go hand in hand. ​Speaker Profile: ​Kris Concepcion is a SWE at Databricks working on the team that manages OSS MLflow and Omnigent.

Hackerschool Week 11: 💰 Minecraft Plugin Development 📅 Tuesday, 27 October, 7:00–9:00 pm 📍 SR14 @ COM3-01-23 🥤 Refreshments will be served! Ever played on a Minecraft server and wondered how they make custom NPCs, commands and game mechanics? These customisations are usually done by plugins! They are often used to change aspects of the game, like custom warps, ranks, and GUI panels! In this session, you will learn how to set up your own Minecraft server and use PaperMC, a powerful server software with extensive API support, to code a fun little Troll plugin so you can prank your friends hehehe. 😍 💻 Before the session: Please install IntelliJ IDEA and Java 25 with THIS GUIDE. Basic Java knowledge (recommended but not required) Interested? Sign up here!

Join us at Friday Hacks #303 tonight to learn about large binary matrices 0️⃣1️⃣s and what a Site Reliability Engineer 👷 does! Friday Hacks #303 📅 Fri, 23 October, 7PM 📍 COM3 SR12 🍕will be served! Sign up HERE!

Friday Hacks #303 📅 Fri, 23 October, 7PM 📍 COM3 SR12 🍕will be served! Sign up HERE! Talk 1: Flip One Bit: Unlocking, Counting and Repairing Huge Grids of 0s and 1s Binary matrices are behind QR codes, Wi-Fi error correction and encryption. This talk follows Alice and Bob through results from our recent paper: a smarter divide-and-conquer method inverts large binary matrices without getting stuck. No prior linear algebra needed: just bring curiosity about 0s and 1s. ​Speaker Profile: ​Ibrahim Mammadov is an MTech student in Software Engineering at NUS-ISS. He first-authored a paper in Mathematics (2026) on large binary matrices and wrote a Reed–Solomon codec thesis. ​Talk 2: ​Talk 2: Do you want to be an SRE? ​Join us as we explore the job scope, daily work, responsibilities of a SRE and what you need to learn and to do to get this job, and grow your career path. ​Speaker Profile: ​Lai Xintao has been a SRE for almost 10 years. Beyond work, he is also the creator and maintainer of IRedis.

Friday Hacks #303 📅 Fri, 23 October, 7PM 📍 COM3 SR12 🍕will be served! Sign up HERE (Non-NUS)! Talk 1: Flip One Bit: Unlocking, Counting and Repairing Huge Grids of 0s and 1s Binary matrices are behind QR codes, Wi-Fi error correction and encryption. This talk follows Alice and Bob through results from our recent paper: a smarter divide-and-conquer method inverts large binary matrices without getting stuck. No prior linear algebra needed: just bring curiosity about 0s and 1s. ​Speaker Profile: ​Ibrahim Mammadov is an MTech student in Software Engineering at NUS-ISS. He first-authored a paper in Mathematics (2026) on large binary matrices and wrote a Reed–Solomon codec thesis. ​Talk 2: ​Talk 2: Do you want to be an SRE? ​Join us as we explore the job scope, daily work, responsibilities of a SRE and what you need to learn and to do to get this job, and grow your career path. ​Speaker Profile: ​Lai Xintao has been a SRE for almost 10 years. Beyond work, he is also the creator and maintainer of IRedis.

hi everyone, just a PSA that just this week there have been many new security vulnerabilities, you really should update all your devices and packages asap: everyone: update your OS & browsers (eMudrha CA certificates) infra / hosting: railway, self hosted gitlab, litellm (leaked .env and api keys) dev tools: opencode, php, nodejs

https://wokwi.com/projects/476132288484387841 https://hackin7.github.io/GreyMechaArmy_Tests/

For those at the session today, here are the slides today: https://hckr.cc/hs-fpga-slides

SR13 (COM3-01-22) is also open!

Hi everyone, Hackerschool Week 10 on FGPA is happening in 10mins! Head down now to SR14 @ COM3-01-23 and join us!

Here are the slides and video recording of last Friday's FH #302 from The Straits Times' Interactive Graphics Team! Recording Slides

Hackerschool Week 10: Intro to FPGA 📅 Tuesday, 20 October, 7:00–9:00 pm 📍 SR14 @ COM3-01-23 🥤 Refreshments will be served! Ever wondered how computer chips or day to day electronics work? Want to make your own accelerator? Or maybe drive high speed displays? Or maybe even create your own CPU or eventually computer chip? Join us for an introduction to Field Programmable Gate Arrays, a special chip that allows you to emulate all sorts of electronics and run various algorithms at high throughputs and speeds. You'll learn the basics of digital design with logic gates, registers, and Verilog. By the end of the workshop, you'll be able to use FPGAs to display cool graphics and animations on displays. Furthermore, you might even be able to take your digital design and Verilog for tape out to make an actual computer chip! We have 20 GreyMecha/Army FPGA boards available to give out, with an onboard OLED! 👨🏻‍🎓 NUS Sign up HERE! 📝 Non-NUS Sign up HERE!

Bumping this! Friday Hacks is resuming this week! Sign up for Friday Hacks today to get a behind-the-scenes look at how The Straits Times builds its interactive graphics. See you there! 📅 Fri, 16 October, 7PM 📍 COM3 SR12 🍕will be served! 🦁 NUS: Sign up HERE! 🦄 Non-NUS: Sign up HERE! [comments]: you can check out some cool projects the Interactive Graphics team has done!

Hi Everyone, Talk 1 for this week's Friday Hacks has been postponed to Nov 6. This week's session will still start at 7pm, so do head down as per usual!

Friday Hacks #302 📅 Fri, 16 October, 7PM 📍 COM3 SR12 🍕will be served! 🦁 NUS: Sign up HERE! 🦄 Non-NUS: Sign up HERE! Talk 1: From Handwritten Code to AI: What Changes, What Doesn't Writing code is now nearly free. Knowing your code is right is not. This talk covers what has changed in how software gets built, the practices that hold up, and what still depends on you. ​Speaker Profile: Shaoyin Song is an Engineering Manager at Tiktok Singapore and the creator of open-source project You-Dont-Need-jQuery. ​Talk 2: Behind the Graphics: Data Storytelling and Frontend Architecture at The Straits Times Find out how the Interactive Graphics Team @ The Straits Times turn complex data into interactive stories, from data collection and iterative UI design to motion accents and web optimisation for mass audiences. ​Speaker Profile: Shannon is a digital graphics designer keen on pushing the envelope of digital storytelling. Wei Xian is a data visualisation developer specialising in building interactive graphics.

Hackerspace Week 9: Campus Hacks is starting in 10 minutes! See you at COM3-01-21 (SR12)!

Just a gentle reminder for those coming to Hackerschool Week 9 to setup your gemini account before the session! For SoC students please activate your account via: https://mysoc.nus.edu.sg/ai/gemini/ For non-SoC students, there is currently a free 1 year gemini plan that you can claim: https://gemini.google/students/