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• Building a Web Framework from Scratch

  Draco is a Hack Club (https://hackclub.com) YSWS (You Ship We Ship) — teenagers build a working server side web framework from scratch. Ship it, and we send you a mechanical keyboard + SSD. The idea came from building Beasty — my own HTTP server from raw TCP. The moment you parse your first request line by hand and a browser actually responds, something clicks. You stop thinking of HTTP as magic and start thinking... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)

  Email: hi@skyfall.dev Hi! I’m a high-school student looking for a part-time role or internship at a company building something ambitious. I learn quickly, thrive in small teams (see below!) and love taking projects from idea to shipped product. I currently volunteer for a nonprofit (for teens into STEM) called Hack Club [1], have ran programs there, and have also worked on some of their flagship programs - in... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase

  It's really easy to join! There are lots of cool programs currently running. Maybe wait until next week so the migration is done, but do check our website: https://hackclub.com (we have/had 100k people in the Slack). - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase

  I was ready to be unsympathetic - too bad for the company - but then I read TFA and it's a rug pull on a nonprofit teaching coding to kids.... https://hackclub.com/ (They do help clubs sell things, taking "7% of income", so they do have a revenue stream, but the money that Slack wants would pay a veritable army of student interns.). - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• How I implemented a DHT with the Chord protocol in C

  I wanted to thank Hack Club and GitHub Education for the motivation they give us high-schoolers to code, to learn new things and to create amazing projects together. If you are a high-schooler and a programmer, I highly suggest you to join Hack Club in order to find more people with the same passions as you and to apply for the GitHub Education pack to get a series of tools to elevate your coding skills. I'm sure... - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• iMessage Explained

  OMG I love this. Go get em! Also, this is perfect material for Hack Club. You should join! https://hackclub.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote this guide on how CPUs run programs

  Hi! I'm Lexi, I wrote this article/mini-book. There's a classic question of "what happens when you load a website?", but I've always been more interested in "what happens when you run a program?". About 3 months ago, I was really annoyed at myself for not knowing how to answer that question so I decided to teach myself. I taught myself everything else I know in programming, so this should be easy, right? NOPE!... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Putting the “You” in CPU

  Hi! I'm the person who made this thing! Some backstory on me: I'm 17 and left high school a year ago to work full-time at Hack Club (https://hackclub.com/). I've been programming for as long as I can remember, and started homeschooling about 6 years ago to focus more on that (and my other interests). Since I'm entirely self-taught, I haven't taken any college systems classes — and while I had picked up a... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Free nonprofit status for relief efforts

  In the face of the recent devastating floods in Vermont, Hack Club, a Vermont-based nonprofit, is offering free use of Hack Club Bank for any flood relief efforts in Vermont, New York State, and New Hampshire. Source: about 3 years ago

• Join Hands with Hack Club Bank for Vermont Flood Relief

  Facing recent floods, Hack Club is offering free use of Hack Club Bank for relief efforts in VT, NY, and NH. Collect tax-deductible donations easily through various platforms, including GoFundMe. Manage funds collaboratively on our easy-to-use online platform, and issue physical or virtual cards for your charitable expenses. As Vermonters, we’re eager to assist fellow Vermonters. Start within 24 hours by emailing... Source: about 3 years ago

• Got both my kids areas and builds all set. Bonus picture of my setup.

  Something like https://hackclub.com/. Source: about 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Free Email Hosting for Nonprofits?

  Hack Club is a nonprofit network of hackathons, student-led coding clubs, and open source projects. Our website is https://hackclub.com and our GitHub is https://github.com/hackclub. We have been receiving free email hosting from Google Workspace and providing it to the Hack Club network, but we recently hit the domain limit (600 domains) on Google Workspace for Nonprofits. Each domain is typically a hackathon or... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Our nonprofit got shut down by PayPal. Help?

  Hack Club (https://hackclub.com) is a nonprofit network of thousands of teenage coders around the world. We’re currently running an electronics grant program (https://hackclub.com/winter/) to support teenagers in building hardware projects. Hundreds of grants are being distributed to teenage coders all across the world. PayPal just shut our account down with no explanation, and denied our appeal. They told us that... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)

  Hack Club | Full-time, Part-time or Contract | ONSITE | Vermont, US | https://hackclub.com Hello friends, I come from the game dev world where I led the team on the Crash Bandicoot reboot trilogy and helped ship two of the Destiny 2 expansions. I’m now building out a team here at Hack Club that will make inspiring technical and creative projects with and for thousands of the most technical teenagers you’ll... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• PAID - Creative Technologist

  Hack Club (501(c)(3) nonprofit) is a community of teenagers around the world who are learning technology by building things they care about and sharing with other people. Hack Club is where teenage coders make friends, build together, and get inspiration. We’re here to try and create the most incredible learning community, tools, and services to support them to go far technically, and also grow personally with... Source: over 3 years ago

• Sanity.io: a really good CMS

  While I was searching for a good CMS for my website, a certain Benjamin Ashbaugh (yes, I can confirm he is a cow) in Hack Club's Slack workspace told me about a certain CMS called Sanity. It didn't require me to host my own instance anywhere and was really easy to edit through a tool called Sanity Studio. - Source: dev.to / about 4 years ago

• With ❤️ from Hack Club

  For those who don't know, Hack Club and r/Miata had a brief encounter earlier today on r/place when we wandered into part of the space r/Miata was planning on using for your base. Our groups fought for that space for a few hours, but eventually a few people from here reached out to us directly and offered to help us move to another place. Source: over 4 years ago

• What advice would you give to a current high school junior going to apply to college this year

  I've got 4 years of coding experience, a year of internship experience, I've lead a club at my school, I'm going to lead a hackathon this month, but I've got no other athletic / extra curricular experience. What do you think I can do in this ~6m of remaining time to improve and strengthen my profile? Source: over 4 years ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)

  Hack Club | Burlington, Vermont | REMOTE option | https://hackclub.com Hack Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit supporting teenagers in technology supported by Elon Musk, Tom Preston-Werner, Ron Conway, and other leaders in tech. 3 years ago Hack Club started a fiscal sponsor[0] for the teenagers in our nonprofit’s programs and built the full software stack in-house. You can see what it looks like here:... - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)

  Hack Club (https://hackclub.com) | Full-time | Burlington, Vermont (VT) | ONSITE Hack Club is a social impact startup funded with the mission of empowering teenage coders with community, support, and financial tools for hackathons, Hack Clubs, and student-powered NGOs. We're hiring for multiple roles: - Lead Hacker, Hack Club Bank: Lead the development of Hack Club Bank, our fiscal sponsorship program. Within 24... - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• Next Thiel Fellow Class: 23 entrepreneurs in aviation, healthcare, AI and more

  As a 2015 Thiel Fellow for Hack Club (https://hackclub.com), I want to express an enormous amount of gratitude to the fellowship and to their staff. The Thiel Fellowship was the first major external funder that believed in Hack Club, and today we're serving 10,000+ teenagers every year while making nearly all of our work open source, including our finances (https://github.com/hackclub,... - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago