A recent post on Hacker News asks about this question on YCombinator’s just-opened application for their Summer 2008 seed funding round in Boston:

Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.

That’s just a fun discussion question, with a few good stories in the responses. My answer, still kinda computer-related, is that time in high school that my friends and I built a computer lab so we could study Computer Science AP. (Although my treadmill desk and simulation of a door using a paperclip also came to mind.)

What’s yours?