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The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners

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hauntertoday at 6:35 AM

The GameBoy emulator's code also looks like the GameBoy. Slow clap this is insane, definitely my favorite entry.

https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2025/ncw1/pr...

The author, Nick Craig-Wood, is the creator of rclone!

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aquirtoday at 6:30 AM

The website itself is obfuscated, it’s not easy to find the C sources at all!

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laroditoday at 6:39 AM

Tis a pity to not have LLMs compete, given level of obfuscation they be capable of.

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