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title: "SF AI hackathons and events — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog"
canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_hackathons
as_of: 2026-09-27
updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z
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# SF AI hackathons and events (🌉 San Francisco)

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SF AI hackathons and events is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 3 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 3 points higher than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 17 to Sep 17 (peak 26 on Sep 17).

AI hackathons, build days, and hack nights in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

First seen on Google News (RSS) · Sep 13 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days.

Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources.

- **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources
- **Hype score:** 2.9 / 100 · 0 in 1 day · +2.9 in 7 days
- **In hype since:** not in hype now
- **Peak, 30 days:** 25.9 on Sep 17, 2026
- **Category:** 🌉 San Francisco
- **Part of:** [SF AI scene](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene.md)
- **Sources above normal:** 0 of 24 scoring it (0 independent families)
- **Stories in 7 days:** 25
- **Share of voice:** 0.1% of the radar’s attention in 7 days

## Where the attention comes from

“Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0.

| Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score |
|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:|
| Luma (SF AI events) | events | 26 (Sep 26) | 20 | 1.3× | no | 77% |
| Cerebral Valley (AI events) | events | 4 (Sep 26) | 2 | 1.7× | no | 23% |
| Hacker News | mentions | 1 | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |

## Stories behind it

1. [Degrees of Freedom: Robotics Builders Night @ Mission Robotics](https://luma.com/h2ron9ra) — Luma (SF AI events) (Rally SF) · score 83
2. [Show HN: PlaceCall \(YC W26\) – agentic API to call businesses and get things done](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831231) — Hacker News · Sep 24 · score 16 · 4 comments
3. [This is a submission for the MLH x DEV Writing Challenge. Imagine joining a project with 500,000 lines of code. The repository is healthy. The tests pass. The CI pipeline is green. GitHub contains ye…](https://www.urbanmind.net/display/f7dd981d-ae86fa93-73f3f1253562672c) — Mastodon (fediverse) (www.urbanmind.net) · Sep 28 · score 2 · 0 comments
4. [ZERO34802/BITGIG: UC-Berkeley-X-DeepMind Hackathon Project](https://github.com/ZERO34802/BITGIG) — GitHub (ZERO34802) · Sep 27 · score 1
5. [What would make you actually fly to Finland for a 72-hour AI hackathon?](https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1wspude/what_would_make_you_actually_fly_to_finland_for_a/) — Reddit (r/artificial) · Sep 28
6. [AI GTM Night](https://luma.com/catalyst-r22p) — Luma (SF AI events) (Catalyst Bay) · score 36
7. [Multi Model Hackathon - #SFTechWeek](https://luma.com/builde-pozq) — Luma (SF AI events) (Builderbase Hackathons) · score 23
8. [Build Your First App with AI](https://luma.com/m99jg1b7) — Luma (SF AI events) (NextGenInitiative Silicon Valley) · score 13
9. [build-with-AI Buildathon](https://partiful.com/e/R8tmSQnj89DXbVe4Ghr9) — Cerebral Valley (AI events) (San Francisco, CA)
10. [Agent Hackathon: Voice Mode On](https://partiful.com/e/bq3rFJ5Lfqyjtryj5v9I) — Cerebral Valley (AI events) (San Francisco, CA)
11. [CTRL Escape Room Hackathon](https://partiful.com/e/8LTIdLAmYyxfse2BueCB) — Cerebral Valley (AI events) (San Francisco, CA)
12. [The Challenge At HHGOA 2026, we were given a real-world fraud detection problem: investigate 20 complex fraud cases using an AI agent powered by TigerGraph. The result? A fully autonomous Fraud Inves…](https://www.urbanmind.net/display/f7dd981d-819c2935-9e7002e79364a939) — Mastodon (fediverse) (www.urbanmind.net) · Sep 24 · score 1 · 0 comments

## Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 4 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

- [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 50% of its stories
- Other AI — 25% of its stories
- [SF scene](https://abovethefog.app/themes/sf_scene.md) — 25% of its stories
- [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 25% of its stories

## Related topics

- **Part of:** [SF AI scene](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene.md)
- **Mentioned with:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) (25 stories), [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.md) (4 stories), [Y Combinator](https://abovethefog.app/topics/y_combinator.md) (3 stories), [Strands](https://abovethefog.app/topics/strands.md) (3 stories), [Vibe coding](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vibe_coding.md) (3 stories)

## Hype score, last 30 days

| Day | Hype score | Stage |
|---|---:|---|
| Sep 27, 2026 | 2.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 1.7 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 25.9 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 16.3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 17 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 16.3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 16.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 17.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 9.5 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 13 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 4, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 3, 2026 | 10.8 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 2, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 1, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |

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Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar

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