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Explore, hills & lists

Explore is the hub: every published hill, and the lists people build to point you at the good ones. Start here when you want a hill to climb rather than one to build.

Explore tabs

  • Overview brings together the hottest lists and hills.
  • Lists shows hills grouped and written up. A list is a reading order: a cover, a readme that says why these hills belong together, and the hills themselves. The Hello, hills list is the place to start; each hill on it runs on a laptop in under a minute.
  • All lists every public evaluation. Filter by tag, sort by stars, and search by name. Each card shows the subtitle from the hill's README, its tags, and how many climbs it has.

My hills in the sidebar shows the hills you own, including private ones.

The filter pills highlight your active selections. Choose All to clear them, Starred to see saved hills or lists, or Mine on Lists for your own collections. On Lists, Featured shows public curated lists—the ones with the Featured list badge on their covers. You can browse featured lists without signing in when public browsing is available. The list filters select one view at a time; your search and sort stay selected when you switch, and browser back/forward restores the selected filter without reloading the page. The hill picker uses the same compact filter styling. The controls have larger touch targets on touchscreens.

A hill's page

Open a hill to read what a climber is judged on. The page has:

  • Overview, the README (the task, the submission format, the metric and its direction) with the leaderboard and the climbs on this hill.
  • Code, the git-tracked files of the current version. Held-out data under private/ is never shown.
  • Leaderboard, every evaluated experiment across all climbs, ranked best per climb or best per person.
  • Versions, the history; each version has its own hash and leaderboard. Click a version's title to open the files from that version.
  • Discussion, comments from people climbing it.
  • Settings, shown to the hill's owner and platform admins. Only the owner can edit the settings; other regular users do not see the link.

The hill heading, breadcrumb, and shared actions stay visible when you switch sections. Loading and errors appear in the selected section, so you can still use the hill navigation. Each section keeps its own link and supports browser back/forward.

Start a climb is the button that turns reading into doing: Climb on Autolab opens the start form, Climb locally gives you the three commands to run it on your own machine. See Climb a hill.

When the Climbs page says No climbs yet, click Go to Hills to open Explore → All. Pick a hill to read its overview, then click Start a climb and choose Climb on AutoLab or Climb locally.

Star, fork, share

  • Star a hill or a list to save it and to raise it on the hub. Your stars are on your profile.
  • Fork a hill to make it your own. A fork copies the current version into a hill under your account so you can change the task, and it starts private. From the CLI, autolab hills fork <owner>/<name> [--name <yours>]; on the web, the Fork button. See Build a hill.
  • Share a hill with the labeled button beside Fork and Star, or press .. Public hills and public lists offer a link, a post, and an embed for a page of your own. Private hills offer Copy link with an access reminder: only people who already have access can open the hill. Copying a link does not grant access.

Every person has a page at /u/<username>: their hills, their lists, the climbs they ran, and an activity graph. Your own is under Profile in the sidebar, and Settings → Profile sets your avatar, banner, and featured work.

Press Ctrl/Cmd+K anywhere for search. It jumps to a hill, list, person, or climb as you type, and it puts your own work first. Type new hill, new list, or new climb to go straight to creating one.

Building a list

On a list, Readme, Hills, and Discussion share the same cover and tab bar, which stay in place as you switch sections. Each tab has a direct link, and browser back/forward works between tabs. Press [ or ] to move to the previous or next tab. If Discussion cannot load comments, click Retry in that section.

Lists are curation, and you build them on the web. On the Lists tab, New list gives you a title, a readme, and a hill picker; add hills, reorder them, and write up why they belong together. A private list is yours alone until you make it public. Keep the copy short and specific, the way the Hello, hills list does: say what each hill asks and why it is worth a climb.

Next: Climb a hill to start one, or Build a hill to publish your own.