Comment by marcelo-earth
10 hours ago
Reading the article, I can't believe I just found out Code Golf is a thing. I've been a programmer for more than a decade.
But yes, amazing project! I like that it's human-made :)
10 hours ago
Reading the article, I can't believe I just found out Code Golf is a thing. I've been a programmer for more than a decade.
But yes, amazing project! I like that it's human-made :)
The quintessential example is donut.c. I was amazed when I first came across it.
https://www.a1k0n.net/2006/09/15/obfuscated-c-donut.html
> This was my first attempt at obfuscated C and I feel it's pretty amateurish
I love feelings of inadequacy at 11:07pm on a Sunday.
Here's the judges' remarks and author commentary on the second edition of this from the 2006 results: https://www.ioccc.org/2006/sloane/index.html
This one is my favorite:
https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2025/ncw1/pr...
Always fun to see this pop up years later. (Damn, 20 years now)
Thanks, this makes me happy.
Absolute legend
> it’s worked on every system I’ve tried so far though
Still my favorite part of the whole thing. Classic moment of “who among us hasn’t doesn’t this?” lol
Get thee to
https://beta.dwitter.net
Also https://github.com/nanochess
And then if you really want to go large
https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of
I still have a soft spot for https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1221
This is my favorite : https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/pi.c
look at https://codegolf.stackexchange.com