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 wr

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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704182 [2] archive link to the dead link in [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090717104634/http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/programming-contest-win-iphone-3gs-2k-cloud-credit/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090717104634/http://www.engine... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716851 [4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=engineyard%20contest&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...