This C code should be ILLEGAL. It's also fantastic.

LaurieWired September 9, 2025
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This C code is disgusting. But also really, really clever. The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) has been consistently breaking human minds since 1984. This year's winners are out of control. But hey, I'm a Professional Reverse Engineer. Time to find out: - Can government-grade tools defeat unreadable code? - Hiding Salmon in Unicode is not very effective - Why did I just get Rickrolled? --- Timestamps: 00:00 The World's Worst (Best?) Code Competition 01:33 My Gut Feelings (Ranked) 04:03 Rick Astley's Obfuscated C 07:05 Virtual Machine of Doom 10:05 Preprocessor Raytracing? 13:07 Teeny Tiny LLM Engine 16:53 Vi would you do this 20:01 Unicode Salmon Recipes 22:19 Growing ASCII Trees 24:50 A Calculator that speaks English 28:56 Professional Reverse Engineer vs Programmers --- Check out my X account for cool Computer Science stuff! https://x.com/lauriewired --- IOCCC Official Homepage + Source Code: https://www.ioccc.org/ Official IOCCC YouTube Channel, run by Landon Curt Noll himself! https://www.youtube.com/@OurFavoriteUniverse

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