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The Craziest Coding Contest Ever

2026-06-16 Science & Technology
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PlanetScale is the fastest and most reliable way to run Postgres and MySQL in the cloud. Combined with sharding, branching, and Query Insights, you'll spend less time fighting your database and more time shipping. Try it at https://trm.sh/planetscale Sources: - https://www.ioccc.org Topics Covered: - The International Obfuscated C Code Contest https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I stream on Twitch Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen #theprimeagen #programming #computerscience #ai #chatgippty #terminaldotshop

Top Comments (10)

@whiteboarddev 2026-06-16

Somebody in the Claude Code team needs to hire these ascii folks to hit the 60FPS animations

439 11 replies
@dznnah 2026-06-16

The anime girl shaped code didn't generate a dancing anime girl... I am beyond disappointed.

359 7 replies
@yyyyyyyyyz 2026-06-16

Missed part of the "fun" of the minesweeper one. It's meant to be a joke: it auto-fills any guaranteed inferences, so the ONLY choices you still get to make are the luck-based ones. It's intentionally made to eliminate all of minesweeper apart from the frustrating chance-based choices.

263 2 replies
@ariadnavigo 2026-06-16

Wait until Prime learns about polyglot files that are PDF, a tarball, a C program, and an audio file at the same time... There was a competition for those too, IIRC

172 5 replies
@fallenflame8678 2026-06-16

29:24 Not a bug! This is not a minesweeper game, this is a minesweeper SOLVER!

170 4 replies
@theondono 2026-06-16

Dude, this isn’t an ad, it’s art. I hope you’re getting big bags for these masterpieces

87 1 replies
@Hi_hello_hello 2026-06-16

My favorite IOCCC program is the tic-tac-toe that's written entirely in the C printf function. Turns out the printf function is unintentionally Turing complete

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@maxmustermann-hx3fx 2026-06-16

He is really close to discovering the demoscene

82 6 replies
@GGNext1 2026-06-16

The Bonsai Tree Simulator needs to be mixed with the Relax Sounds Generator.

53 1 replies
@ThePrimeTimeagen 2026-06-16

Thank you to our sponsor PlanetScale! PlanetScale is the fastest and most reliable way to run Postgres and MySQL in the cloud. Combined with sharding, branching, and Query Insights, you'll spend less time fighting your database and more time shipping. Try it at https://trm.sh/planetscale

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