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

[2] archive link to the dead link in [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090717104634/http://www.engine...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716851

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...