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hi everyone, just a PSA that just this week there have been many new security vulnerabilities, you really should update all your devices and packages asap:

everyone: update your OS & browsers (eMudrha CA certificates)

infra / hosting: railway, self hosted gitlab, litellm
(leaked .env and api keys)

dev tools: opencode, php, nodejs
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Friday Hacks #303
πŸ“… Fri, 23 October, 7PM
πŸ“ COM3 SR12
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Talk 1: Flip One Bit: Unlocking, Counting and Repairing Huge Grids of 0s and 1s
Binary matrices are behind QR codes, Wi-Fi error correction and encryption. This talk follows Alice and Bob through results from our recent paper: a smarter divide-and-conquer method inverts large binary matrices without getting stuck. No prior linear algebra needed: just bring curiosity about 0s and 1s.

​Speaker Profile:
​Ibrahim Mammadov is an MTech student in Software Engineering at NUS-ISS. He first-authored a paper in Mathematics (2026) on large binary matrices and wrote a Reed–Solomon codec thesis.

​Talk 2: ​Do you want to be an SRE?
​Join us as we explore the job scope, daily work, responsibilities of a Site Reliability Engineer and what you need to learn and do to get this job.

​Speaker Profile:
​Lai Xintao has been a SRE for almost 10 years. Beyond work, he is also the creator and maintainer of IRedis.
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Join us at Friday Hacks #303 tonight to learn about large binary matrices 0️⃣1️⃣s and what a Site Reliability Engineer πŸ‘· does!

Friday Hacks #303
πŸ“… Fri, 23 October, 7PM
πŸ“ COM3 SR12
πŸ•will be served!

Sign up HERE!
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Hackerschool Week 11: πŸ’° Minecraft Plugin Development

🌊 Tuesday, 27 October, 7:00–9:00 pm
πŸ“ SR14 @ COM3-01-23
🍎 Refreshments will be served!

Ever played on a Minecraft server and wondered how they make custom NPCs, commands and game mechanics? These customisations are usually done by plugins! They are often used to change aspects of the game, like custom warps, ranks, and GUI panels!

In this session, you will learn how to set up your own Minecraft server and use PaperMC, a powerful server software with extensive API support, to code a fun little Troll plugin so you can prank your friends hehehe. 😍

πŸ’» Before the session:
Please install IntelliJ IDEA and Java 25 with THIS GUIDE. Basic Java knowledge (recommended but not required)

Interested? Sign up here!
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Friday Hacks #304 with Sierra
πŸ“… Fri, 30 October, 7PM
πŸ“ COM3 SR12
πŸ•πŸ§‹will be served!

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Talk 1: Trust is the Product: Deploying AI agents to Highly Regulated Enterprises
​Sierra builds the AI agents behind customer service at over 40% of the Fortune 500. Learn the engineering that wins them over.

Company & Speaker Profile:
​Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands to transform how they serve customers. ​Shaun Livingston is an Agent Engineer at Sierra and part of the founding team at Sierra in Singapore, building AI agents that banks and insurers trust in front of millions of customers.

​Talk 2: ​What is Software Engineering in 2026?
​What does it mean to be a software engineer in the age of coding agents and LLMs? Explore how SWE is changing, and why hacker culture and good SWE practices go hand in hand.

​Speaker Profile:
​Kris Concepcion is a SWE at Databricks working on the team that manages OSS MLflow and Omnigent.
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Hackerschool Week 11: πŸ’° Minecraft Plugin Development 🌊 Tuesday, 27 October, 7:00–9:00 pm πŸ“ SR14 @ COM3-01-23 🍎 Refreshments will be served! Ever played on a Minecraft server and wondered how they make custom NPCs, commands and game mechanics? These customisations…
Hi everyone, Hackerschool Week 11 is happening later today! For those who signed up, a gentle reminder to install IntelliJ IDEA and Java 25 using THIS GUIDE before the session. (Let's not nuke the school wifi with the downloads during the session)

🌊 Tuesday, 27 October, 7:00–9:00 pm
πŸ“ SR14 @ COM3-01-23
🍎 Refreshments will be served!

Sign up here!
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Hey guys!

Reminder to sign up for our Friday Hacks this week where we get to hear about how Sierra deploys agent for highly regulated enterprises, and contemplate what Software Engineering even is in 2026.

You can even drop by at 6:30 to chat with the Sierra team and enjoy some BBT :)
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Our doors are open, and the lovely people from Sierra are here as well. Feel free to start heading down to have a chat!
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Hackerschool Week 12: Steal This Research Idea

πŸ“… Tuesday, 3 November, 7:00–9:00 pm
πŸ“ SR14 @ COM3-01-23
πŸ₯€ Refreshments will be served!

Every breakthrough app, startup, and AI tool begins with an idea, and many of those ideas first appear in research papers.

In this workshop, members from NUS SOC AI Society will teach you how to read and understand research papers and identify ideas with real-world potential. Along the way, we'll introduce you to some of AI's most exciting research areas and give you the chance to dive into a collection of carefully selected papers.

If you're a student interested in AI, entrepreneurship, building standout projects, or gaining an edge in internships and job applications, this workshop will show you where the future starts and how to be among the first to build it.

Interested? Sign up here
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Hi everyone, Hackerschool Week 12 is happening tmr! Time to steal a research idea!

πŸ“… Tuesday, 3 November, 7:00–9:00 pm
πŸ“ SR14 @ COM3-01-23
πŸ₯€ Refreshments will be served!

Interested? Sign up here
Friday Hacks #305
πŸ“… Fri, 6 November, 7PM
πŸ“ COM3 SR12
πŸ•πŸ§‹will be served!

Sign up HERE!

Talk 1: Coding with AI - Changes and Constants
​Writing code is now nearly free. Knowing it is right is not. This talk covers what has really changed in how software gets built, the practices that hold up, and what still depends on you.

​Speaker Profile:
​Shaoyin Song is an Engineering Manager at TikTok in Singapore. In 2015, he created You-Dont-Need-jQuery, which has grown to over 20k+ GitHub stars with more than 100 contributors across 16 languages.

Talk 2: Keeping Secrets from Your AI Agent: How to Protect Your Credentials
This talk covers where your credentials live, how they leak, as well as simple habits so your agent can do its job without ever holding your real credentials.

​Speaker Profile:
​He Li (moonD4rk) is a security researcher in Singapore and creator of HackBrowserData, an open-source browser forensics tool with 14k+ GitHub stars. Spoke at DEFCON Singapore 2026 and will present at Black Hat Europe 2026.
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Hi folks!

On popular demand, here are the slides from this week's Hackerschool session conducted by NUS SOC AI Society: https://hckr.cc/hs-2627s1-aisoc-slides
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Friday Hacks session starting soon!
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