The hackers are here

Posted September 30th, 2006 at 12:33 am by David Filo, Chief Yahoo

 14 Comments / Filed in: Cool Stuff, Trends & News

Tents are set up on the campus lawn. Several hundred pizzas have been consumed. Laptops everywhere have freshly-applied stickers. And our mysterious secret musical guest has been revealed.

Our first annual open Hack Day kicked off with an amazing 90-minute performance by Beck, who recently graced the cover of Wired Magazine for his passion for mashups and remixes. Who better to inspire cleverness and creativity among 500 developers for their all-night journey toward creating the coolest hack? Beck and his band put on quite a show.

To get everyone in the hacking mood, Beck put together this video just for the occasion. It’s too cool not to share.

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Andrew S | September 30th, 2006 at 2:56 am

Thanks Filo and team, that was a truly excellent show!

navin | September 30th, 2006 at 7:23 am

500 developers! Several hundred pizzas!! performance by Beck!!! now i really cant wait for the next big thing, Yahoo!

Brian | September 30th, 2006 at 11:30 am

Right on…Yahoo is where it’s at!

I’m very excited to be a part of such an innovative and fun company. I can’t wait to see what comes out of hack day! Hopefully Y! will publish a hack day gallery so we can check out all the cool hacks. Bring it!

Joe Duck | September 30th, 2006 at 11:44 am

Wow, what a great event. Sorry to have missed it. Yahoo is starting to really rock the new web and deserves a lot of credit for it.

Salim Ismail | September 30th, 2006 at 11:49 pm

It was a great honor being one of the judges and the energy was fantastic. The hacks were incredible and the beer just kept on flowing…

My favorite quote… “Chad & Brad made sure all were glad… “

marc | September 30th, 2006 at 11:52 pm

The event planning was a hack event all by itself. All-nighters, pizzas, technology mind-benders, runs to loews for supplies…everything except the 1.5 minute presentations. Nice job everyone. woot!

willo | October 1st, 2006 at 10:08 pm

haha! that’s awesome.

Tom | October 2nd, 2006 at 3:00 am

Rub that felt!

khoont | October 2nd, 2006 at 6:38 pm

it really was terrific event and cant wait to participate next year for sure. i couldnt make it to submit my hack this year (was waiting for arrival of our baby(hacko or hacky) any hours), i will make boom next year..
kudos to yahoo……….YUI and support rocks

Jeff (the outsider) | October 3rd, 2006 at 4:35 pm

Invited at the last minute by a friend, I always enjoy the ambiance of a live concert. Beck really put it on top. Thanks to them for diverting the night before the Shoreline show to do this. The Puppets are outrageous, what a concept ! (excellent digital short too).

p.s. thanks for the pie and brew !

m | October 4th, 2006 at 1:19 pm

The last Yahoo xmas party left such a poor musical taste in my mouth …this almost took it completely away…

HACK DAY(and night)with BECK was one of the best nites at YAHOO!!!!

THANK YOU! PLEASE continue to bring in musical guests like these!!!!

brian | October 4th, 2006 at 9:41 pm

hey i wanted to let you know that im learning about you and Yang in my economics book and it’s very inspiring

Borat | February 12th, 2007 at 5:15 pm

Very nice… HIGH FIVE!

Digital Music Guy | October 10th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

Nice ambiance at the concert. Always fun to have great music! thx!