Tonight was great. The hacks were awesome. The crowd was awesome. And Ebay [or however you write it these days--Ed] was an awesome host. Like everyone else in NYC, they're hiring, so if you liked the mural in their lobby [and who doesn't?--Ed] you should reach out to them.
This Saturday (October 26th), there's a very important rally happening in Washington, DC. Get more information at . There are buses to/from NYC being organized, so sign up!
If you can't make it, please consider donating through IndieGoGo. Bus tickets are on a sliding scale, so donations help more people get there via bus, and help them fund more things in the future.
Cheap portable photo booth, using mobile cameras with OpenGL shaders and thermal receipt printers.
GreatMonkey script that manipulates gmail to scrape info about any email address from Rapportive. Octavian didn't want to share a URL for this project as it can be so easily abused. [thanks!--Ed]
Jesse found a subtle bug in Python's threading system and worked with the Python team to get it fixed.
GUI for Apple's ITMSTransporter command line tool. ITMSTransporter is a tool for submitting media, like apps, music, video, etc, to the iTunes store.
Triplesec, Triply paranoid encryption for the browser
Music player server with a web-based user interface, inspired by Amarok 1.4. This project also includes a new generic music player backend, written in C, called "libgroove".
Allison gave us a tour of Python's bytecode and Python's bytecode interpreter written in C, and then contrasted that interpreter with one written in Python.
Computational toymaking: create algorithmically generated, unique three dimensional puzzles. No URL offered because he spoke to an IP lawyer that convinced him to keep it to himself. [booooo--Ed]
Team is an event loop (libuv)-driven coroutines library for C++ that focses on ease of use and minimal, clean syntax.
GeoPandas is a project to add support for geographic data to the pandas data hacking library while providing compatibility with the shapely geometry library.
A single-page web application for visualizing political and conflict event data. A map of projections are generated d3, but of the display changes are made through direct DOM-manipulation. The project also birthed a very cool json database for client side javascript to manage huge lists efficiently.
Look for Round 27 to be announced soonish. And keep an eye out for more communication from us about how we're going to make this better for everyone. We know being on a waiting list 100 deep sucks. :(
Happy hacking, James and Andrew