Fancy yourself as someone who can write good code? Want to attract the attention of some of the world’s best coders? Facebook has announced the details of its 2012 Hacker Cup.
The Hacker Cup is an open competition for programmers from around the world. It is held at Facebook’s HQ in California and Irish participants will have to sort out their own entry into the US to compete. Below is what Facebook says about the competition on its blog.

What: An annual algorithmic programming contest open to engineers from around the world.
Where: Three online rounds with the finals at Facebook’s headquarters in California.
When: Registration opens January 4, 2012 with the three online rounds occurring throughout January 2012. World finals to follow.
Finals: We’ll pay to fly and accommodate the top 25 hackers from the third online round out to our campus.
Prizes: $5,000 USD and title as world champion to the top hacker, $2,000 for second place, $1,000 for third, and $100 for fourth through 25th. Awesome t-shirts for the top 100 hackers coming out of the second online round.

More details
Here are some more details about what kinds of algorithms hackers will have to programme and solve.
“Hacking is core to how we build at Facebook. Whether we’re building a prototype for a major product like Timeline at a Hackathon, creating a smarter search algorithm, or tearing down walls at our new headquarters, we’re always hacking to find better ways to solve problems,” says Facebook.

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