That was my thought too! but instead of even click on the HN comments I went and wrote a contestant. Within a couple hours all my runs will have completed; assuming no big power failure I'll make the deadline! :)

(Uh, no doubt I won't do well, since I had no time to ... like.. actually test my code on any functions except a couple trivial trials. :P ... I hope they put up some kind of ranking information as soon as it closes. I have no idea if my results are awful or merely bad :) (and I probably shouldn't share best numbers before it closes) )