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		paulgerhardt on June 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: SHAllenge – Compete to get the lowest has... Ah this brings back fond memories of the EngineYard challenge that consumed HackerNews in 2009[1][2][3][4]. From what I recall it was a bunch of YC founders writing janky cuda code vs djb who proceeded to smoke us all. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704182 [2] archive link to the dead link in [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090717104634/http://www.engine... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716851 [4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

asciii on June 18, 2024 [–]

> Win and iPhone 3GS

Got a 404 but the title was a nice throwback, $2k in cloud credits too!

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