36 Hours Awake to Win Hackathon 🏆

Last year I won TreeHacks 2025 by not sleeping at all. This year, we’re doing it again, but for $10,000. This is the story of how I survived 36 hours without sleep (again) and won Stanford’s Treehacks 2026.

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📓 Chapters:

0:00 Intro
0:20 Preview
0:44 What I pack
1:40 Travel
4:11 Check In
5:43 Goodie Bag
6:35 Opening Ceremony
7:53 Hacking Starts
10:41 Day 2 Starts
12:26 Llamas!
13:16 Materials Arrive
14:02 Trolling around
15:26 Hacking
17:00 Project Explanation
18:24 More Hacking
20:00 Final Push
22:20 Judging
25:00 WE WON

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