International Obfuscated C Code Contest – 2018 Winning Entries
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Fabrice Bellard (the wizard behind FFmpeg, QEMU, etc.) has his own entry, which I find amazing: a ~4 kB program that outputs a ~50 kB image (of Lena), in addition to being able to decompress other images. His entry's hint page: http://www.ioccc.org/2018/bellard/hint.html
Tromp's entry is amazing. Source: http://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/tromp.c Spoiler: http://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html It's based on a minimal implementation of Binary Lambda Calculus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_lambda_calculus
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HN stats
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 506
- Total comments
- 90
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking