[HN Gopher] The Underhanded C Contest
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       The Underhanded C Contest
        
       Author : wwalexander
       Score  : 142 points
       Date   : 2021-11-26 06:02 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.underhanded-c.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.underhanded-c.org)
        
       | goalieca wrote:
       | I would love to see a yaml themed version of the contest. It
       | feels like just as much of a minefield as anything else.
        
       | grenoire wrote:
       | What happened to the 2015 contest results?
        
         | leghifla wrote:
         | http://underhanded-c.org/
        
         | exikyut wrote:
         | http://underhanded-c.org/#winner
        
       | b0rsuk wrote:
       | It would make sense for Rust to sponsor this contest.
        
       | 5- wrote:
       | even though it's well known and regularly appears on hn, the
       | international obfuscated c code contest still needs to be
       | mentioned here.
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       | https://www.ioccc.org/
        
       | tait wrote:
       | Looks like the site hasn't been updated in a while - that's a
       | shame, it was fun to learn from new posts.
       | 
       | I guess my failing to notice that it wasn't updated for 5+ years
       | may correlate, somehow, to the reason it was down...?
        
         | mike_hock wrote:
         | So has it gotten revived or is it only kept for posterity now?
        
         | dane-pgp wrote:
         | The idea was briefly kept alive in the form of the Underhanded
         | Rust Contest[0], announced in 2016, but there were some
         | practical problems organising it, according to an attempt in
         | 2019 to revive it again.[1]
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         | [0] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/12/15/Underhanded-Rust.html
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         | [1] https://github.com/rust-community/team/issues/256
        
         | fishbacon wrote:
         | IOCCC is still running https://www.ioccc.org/
         | 
         | It is not exactly the same but it has a lot of the same vibe.
        
       | mikeodds wrote:
       | There have been a couple of underhanded solidity contests (smart
       | contracts on ETH), inspired by this.
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       | https://underhanded.soliditylang.org/
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       | Nice to people constantly putting the code examples to good use
       | in real projects.
        
       | glouwbug wrote:
       | > Like several entries, this short (99 line) submission filters
       | out dirty words, with an array of curse-replacement pairs, e.g. {
       | "fnord", "fn*rd", "Matlab", "M****b" }.
       | 
       | Hilarious writing. It's sad to think most of these submissions
       | can just be innocent day to day use cases
        
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