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kylecazartoday at 2:02 AM5 repliesview on HN

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


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eclipticplanetoday at 3:09 AM

> 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

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agumonkeytoday at 5:52 AM

Always fun to see this pop up years later. (Damn, 20 years now)

bolangitoday at 2:50 AM

Thanks, this makes me happy.

Forgeties79today at 3:33 AM

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