How do university hackers stack up? (opens in new tab)

Question for HN people: Do you associate the word hacking with computer security? I know I do, and it took me a long time to find that the website was talking about hackathons and not computer security.

Sidenote: rewarding students for travelling seems to bias the scoring in favor of densely populated places like the NE.

I might be slightly biased, but I think Rutgers has the best shot here with their hackathon being 1 of the 2 remaining. Carnegie Mellon is hella far away, and Rutgers has an enormous community. Strong attendance could put them in the lead.

Not only are you competing for that hackathon's prize, you're competing for the reputation of the entire school. I imagine HackRU will be extra competitive.

This is awesome - ranking schools by the successes of their extra-curricular hacking is a really interesting way to look at things.

Swift is a pretty cool guy.. keep up the good work.