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📢 Exciting Workshop Alert!

Building Full-Stack Web Apps with User Authentication & Data Persistence using Supabase

Join us for a hands-on workshop conducted by our ✨ Bronze Sponsor ✨Supabase!

You'll learn how to build full-stack web applications with seamless user authentication and data persistence. We'll be leveraging Supabase, a powerful open-source backend-as-a-service built on PostgreSQL, to manage user details and sessions effortlessly.

What You'll Learn:

🔹 Setting up a Supabase project
🔹 Implementing user authentication
🔹 Managing data persistence with PostgreSQL
🔹 Exploring modern AI tools like v0.dev, bolt.new, and lovable.dev to prototype applications faster.

Whether you're a budding developer or looking to refine your full-stack skills, this workshop is perfect for you! 🚀

🗓When: 10th Jan, Friday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍Where: COM1-02-06
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!

👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-2-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!

📢 Exciting Workshop Alert!

Introduction to Data Engineering Pipelines: Web Scraping, Kafka, Data Storage, and Visualization

🌐 Ready to supercharge your hackathon projects? Join this engaging workshop conducted by our ✨ Gold Sponsor ✨Marshall Wace, a leading global asset manager renowned for its innovative use of data and technology in investment strategies.

What You'll Learn:

🔹 Web Scraping: Build Python Scrapy crawlers to collect valuable datasets.
🔹 Real-Time Data Streaming: Harness the power of Kafka for dynamic data inputs.
🔹 Data Storage & Management: Simplify your workflow with SQLite.
🔹 Data Visualization: Create interactive dashboards with Plotly Dash (no advanced JS needed!).

Don’t miss this chance to gain practical, hands-on data engineering skills! 📊

💡 Prerequisites: Basic Python & SQL knowledge (setup guide will be shared with participants on our discord server).
📅 When: 9th Jan, Thursday, 6:00–8:00 PM
📍 Where: COM1-02-04
🍽 Dinner is provided after the workshop!

👉 Register now: https://hckr.cc/hnr2025-workshop-1-signup
💬 Questions? Reach out via Discord or email!

Remember when we said spots may go quicker than you can say ‘QUACK’? We weren’t kidding! 💨

Slots for Hack&Roll 2025 registration are closing soon, so make sure to check you’ve verified your account and submitted the registration form if you wish to participate!

For those who haven’t registered yet, there’s still a chance! Click here to get started!

See y’all soon! 🥰

Registration for the BIGGEST student-run hackathon in Singapore, Hack&Roll 2025, is OPEN!

Register now HERE - and sign up quickly, as spots may go fast before you can say 'QUACK'!

Ho ho ho 🎅 It’s 1 December and you know what that means? NUS Hackers Advent of Code time! 🎄

Advent of Code (AoC) has just started and will release everyday from 1st Dec to 25th Dec at 1pm SGT! AoC is 25 days of fun programming problems with varying difficulties!

This is NOT a competition, so use this opportunity to make some friends while working on fun problems and to learn a new programming language!

In the spirit of giving, we will also be giving away some goodies 🎁 to 15 randomly drawn people on the leaderboard!

To be eligible, you will need to win >= 20⭐ (you can get at most 2 a day) and join the NUS Hackers private leaderboard (code: 3247510-b3c84eb7 ).

Join our Discord server to learn more about AoC ( #what-is-aoc ), talk about problems ( #aoc-chat ), and share your solutions ( #aoc-solutions )!

Happy hacking and hope to see everyone on the leaderboard 🧑‍🎄

We are excited to announce that Hack&Roll 2025 is coming soon 🎉

Hack&Roll is an annual hackathon organised by NUS Hackers, and we need your help to make it a success! If you are passionate about technology and this sounds exciting to you, please sign up here (by Thursday, 28th November 2359) to indicate your interest.


We are looking for volunteers to help participants with their projects, and to help us with event logistics:

Technical Helpdesk
If you like assisting people with technical issues, you’ll probably enjoy this role. Hack&Roll is entirely open-ended so you will get to face novel and exciting challenges.
We are looking for poeple who like to get their hands dirty and love to help others with technical challenges!


Logistics
Hack&Roll is the largest student-run hackathon in Singapore. That means, we will have a ton of logisitics to handle!
If you’d like to help us handle >1000 slices of pizza 🍕, or giving out swag 😎 to over 750 hackers, join us as a logistics volunteer!

Hi hackers! See you at the last Friday Hacks of the semester tomorrow @7pm - a special edition series of short lightning talks!

Sign up now and see you there! 👋

Friday Hacks Special Edition: Lightning Talks!
(A series of short ~20 min talks)

Talk 1: I made a Mac app to replace the default app switcher
By: Richard Qi

I felt there were many ways to improve the default app switcher on Mac, so I created my own replacement using Swift. In this talk, I’ll share a bit about my journey so far in building and marketing it!

Talk 2: Predict My Pancreas for Fun and Profit
By: Wong Kok Rui

Kok Rui is a graduating NUS Hackers coreteam member who was recently told he has an incurable disease. We discuss how to reverse-engineer your continuous glucose monitor's API to hack together a betting market on your blood glucose levels so your friends can earn fake internet points... and maybe you can learn more about your health!

Talk 3: Open-Source Productivity Tools for University
By: Lam Chun Yu

We discuss various editors, shells, environments to create a productive and opinionated setup for university! Come to find out some cool software you might not have heard of, or some software you've never really utilized to it's fullest potential

Friday Hacks #268🎉

SPECIAL EDITION: Lightning Talks!

🗓 Date/Time: Friday, 15 Nov, 7pm
📍 Venue: COM1-02-12, Seminar Room 3
🍕 Food and🧋drinks will be served!

RSVP:
Here

Friday Hacks #267 🎉

🗓 Date/Time: Friday, 8 Nov, 8pm
📍 Venue: COM1-02-12, Seminar Room 3
🍕 Food and🧋drinks will be served!

RSVP:
Here

Talk 2: Introduction to Open-RMF
Open-RMF (Robotics Middleware Framework) is an open-source interoperability framework that facilitates the integration and coordination of multiple robot fleets and infrastructure systems in shared spaces. It offers a consolidated platform for fleet management, conflict resolution and task allocation for various robot types in dynamic environments. This session will introduce core components of Open-RMF, highlight real-world use cases, and guide users to integrate their own robot fleets with the framework.

🎤Speaker Profile 🎤
Xiyu is a software engineer on the Open Robotics team at Intrinsic, bringing 3 years of experience, focusing on Open-RMF. She deployed mobile robot fleets and is a key contributor to the project's open-source repo, implementing fleet adapters and integrating building infrastructure to the Open-RMF framework.

Friday Hacks #267 🎉

🗓 Date/Time: Friday, 8 Nov, 7pm
📍 Venue: COM1-02-12, Seminar Room 3
🍕 Food and🧋drinks will be served!

RSVP:
Here

Talk 1: Achieving 100% Eva Synchro: Enhancing Enterprise Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity offensive and defensive teams are often at odds with each other due to conflicting goals. In this talk, I will elaborate on what exactly these teams do in practice and show how security teams can work together to improve enterprise security.

🎤 Speaker Profile 🎤
Hui Yi wears many hats at TikTok, supporting both offensive and defensive cybersecurity operations, as well as occasional application development. In recent times, she has chosen to focus more on the defensive side of the house in order to pay back the sins incurred from scarring the blue team too much. Outside of work, she plays Chinese instruments, and plays the most boring simulation games in the world.

Hey hackers! Just like last week, we've booked COM 3 Seminar Room 13 from 2-4PM today, to come hang out and work in. See you! 👋

Hackers Toolbox: 🌐 Beginners Guide to Self Hosting 🌐

🗓 Tuesday, 29 Oct, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
📍 COM3-01-20, Seminar Room 11

Sign up here!

Want to dive into the world of self-hosting? Whether you're looking to build your own web presence, manage personal services, or gain control over your data, this workshop is for you!

We’ll walk you through setting up your own Virtual Private Server (VPS), introduce you to various services you can run (think websites, file storage, media servers, and more), and discuss how self-hosted solutions stack up against managed services.

💡 What You’ll Learn
- VPS 101: Learn what a VPS is and how to set one up from scratch.
- Hosting Essentials: Discover different services you can host and the pros and cons of each.
- Comparing with Managed Services: Understand when it makes sense to self-host and when a managed service might be the better choice.

Please ensure you have working SSH access before the workshop!

See you there 👋🏻

Hey hackers! Happy mid week! Once again, we’ve booked the COM3 Seminar Room 13 from 2 to 4 PM today, available for all of you to hang out and work in. Some of us from coreteam will be there. See you! 💻🔥

Hackerschool: Introduction to UX/UI Design and Figma

🗓 Thursday, 24 October, 6:30 PM to 8:30PM
📍COM3-01-20 (Seminar Room 11)
🧁 Refreshments will be served!

💌 RSVP: HERE

📝 Ready to dive into the vibrant world of UX/UI design? Join us for a beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop where we’ll explore the fundamentals of UX/UI design and Figma!

By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Understand key concepts in UX/UI design (user-centered design, usability)
- Explore design thinking methodologies and their application in creating effective user experiences.
- Gain practical skills in Figma, from creating wireframes to designing interactive prototypes.

✅️Requirements: Please create a Figma account and register for the educational license using your NUS Email!

🎤Speaker Profile🎤
Youngseo is Year 2 Computer Science student and an enthusiast of all things creative. She loves how skills in both design and development give her the power to create anything, from interactive apps to story-rich games.

Friday Hacks #266 🎉

🗓 Date/Time: Friday, 25 Oct, 8pm
📍 Venue: COM1-02-12, Seminar Room 3
🍕 Food and🧋drinks will be served!

RSVP:
Here

Talk 1: “Hey XXX, What Song Is This?” -
A Gentle Introduction to Music Content Identification
We probably have used apps like Shazam, Google Assistant, or Alexa to ask the question, "Hey, what song is this?" when we hear a new song we like in public. In this talk, we’ll explore how systems work to identify music in seconds. We'll cover audio fingerprinting, the algorithm that allows machines to quickly recognize songs from short clips, even in noisy environments. We’ll dive into the AI technology that enable these systems to recognize covers remixes. Whether you're new to the topic or curious about the tech, this session offers a simple, clear look at how music content identification works.

🎤Speaker Profile 🎤
Hao Hao is a machine learning engineer at BandLab Technologies, applying AI/ML to assist music creation workflow and enhance intelligent musical analysis.

Friday Hacks #266 🎉

🗓 Date/Time: Friday, 25 Oct, 7pm
📍 Venue: COM1-02-12, Seminar Room 3
🍕 Food and🧋drinks will be served!

RSVP:
Here

Talk 1: Operating System Design for Fast I/O
Traditional operating systems consider I/O as slow operations. Over the last decade, I/O technology has improved significantly. Yet, CPU performance scaling has stalled due to physical limitations. So, traditional OS designs have created performance bottlenecks in I/O processing. I will discuss recent attempts to redesign the OS I/O architecture to address this challenge, focusing on the separation of control and data plane in the OS, and hardware offloading techniques to eliminate the bottlenecks.

🎤Speaker Profile 🎤
Jialin Li is the Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at NUS. Jialin received his PhD from the University of Washington, and bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan. His research has been awarded the OSDI '14 Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award and the NSDI '15 Best Paper Award.

Hackers Toolbox: Introduction to Docker

🗓 Tuesday, 22 Oct, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
📍 COM3-01-20, Seminar Room 11

Sign up here!

Tired of hearing "It works on my machine"? Ever wondered how to deploy apps on machines with different environments?

This workshop is great for:
- Beginners! Some basic command line understanding would be great, but not needed!
- People who want to understand the inner workings of websites/applications
- Learning a new skill to add to your technology arsenal!

Here's what you'll learn:
- Demystifying technical jargon like containers and images
- Writing your own Dockerfile
- Building your own system with Docker Compose

Requirements:
Docker Desktop installed on your machine (Get it here: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/)

See you there! 👋