# Hack Day 2024: Sports and Election Prototypes

DevFeed: [Hack Day 2024: Sports and Election Prototypes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hack-day-summer-of-sport-fall-of-democracy-19973.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.theguardian.com/info/article/2024/jun/17/hack-day-summer-of-sport-fall-of-democracy>)

Author: Rasha Ardati, Mariot Chauvin

Published: 2024-06-17T14:42:54Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Guardian](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/guardian.md>)

Topics: [Demo](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/demo.md>), [Browser Extension](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser-extension.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Structured-data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/structured-data.md>)

Tags: [demo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/demo.md>), [extension](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/extension.md>), [hack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hack.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>)

## AI overview

Guardian colleagues held a two-day 2024 hack day themed around sports and upcoming elections. The article highlights selected concepts, including favicon-based liveblog displays, a browser extension that turns paragraphs into crosswords, and structured tennis scores for liveblogs.

## Source excerpt

Recently, colleagues across the product and engineering department, as well as other parts of the organisation, came together for another exciting hack day For our first hack day of 2024 we kicked off with a grand theme around all the major events of the world, including sport and upcoming elections around the world. Hackers played around with the idea of using python programming language and real-time mobile telemetry data to influence the outcome of UK elections, they proposed a bold new journalistic geometry, added fun polls, quizzes and newsletters sign ups to the live blog, as well as posed the question: " Can bedrock do what CAPI can do?" And that's only 4 of the 19 amazing hacks produced and presented over the two-day event! A counter in the favicon for unread liveblog entries, which would appear on liveblogs. A more experimental demo that displayed a tiny version of the Guardian article being read entirely within the favicon. This included a Guardian header, real-time scrolling, all the article text, and images. Continue reading...