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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...?

So has it gotten revived or is it only kept for posterity now?
even though it's well known and regularly appears on hn, the international obfuscated c code contest still needs to be mentioned here.

https://www.ioccc.org/

I would love to see a yaml themed version of the contest. It feels like just as much of a minefield as anything else.
It would make sense for Rust to sponsor this contest.
There have been a couple of underhanded solidity contests (smart contracts on ETH), inspired by this.

https://underhanded.soliditylang.org/

Nice to people constantly putting the code examples to good use in real projects.

> 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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