Reading the article, I can't believe I just found out Code Golf is a thing. I've been a programmer for more than a decade.

But yes, amazing project! I like that it's human-made :)

The quintessential example is donut.c. I was amazed when I first came across it.

https://www.a1k0n.net/2006/09/15/obfuscated-c-donut.html

> This was my first attempt at obfuscated C and I feel it's pretty amateurish

I love feelings of inadequacy at 11:07pm on a Sunday.

Here's the judges' remarks and author commentary on the second edition of this from the 2006 results: https://www.ioccc.org/2006/sloane/index.html

This one is my favorite:

https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2025/ncw1/pr...

Thanks, this makes me happy.

Always fun to see this pop up years later. (Damn, 20 years now)

Absolute legend

> it’s worked on every system I’ve tried so far though

Still my favorite part of the whole thing. Classic moment of “who among us hasn’t doesn’t this?” lol

This is my favorite : https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/pi.c

Get thee to

https://beta.dwitter.net

Also https://github.com/nanochess

And then if you really want to go large

https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of

I still have a soft spot for https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1221

look at https://codegolf.stackexchange.com

Also Spotlight worked decently until a few years ago, but not anymore

Does anyone else experience this? Like it freezes when searching for programs?

> This is just vandalism from badly supervised ‘agents’ which don’t know what they are doing or why.

Agent vandalism. I've finally found a better word than "agent stepped out of his sandbox and we don't know how."

At first I thought: oh okay, someone built a faulty guardrail, or it was human error. But when I looked into all the details...

It turns out they now have such an incredibly high level of intelligence that with very little autonomy (or minimal, safe autonomy), these things happen.

Basically, it takes a lot of humans to prevent it from happening again, but I think with this incident, which as far as I know is the second of its kind along with the HuggingFace one, we'll see it happening much more often...

At this point it's very obvious that OpenAI is not interested in properly sandboxing their research agents. These things should be pretty damn close to airgapped at this point with a static view into the web.

We need to stop pretending that these incidents are unavoidable. This was a choice.

I hate this too, I had to switch to Codex, because the skill to force Claude Code not to think too much about very, very basic things no longer worked

It's the first time I've heard about egui. I'm currently working on a desktop app that uses Tauri, and I realized there's a Tauri plugin that connects the two:

https://crates.io/crates/tauri-egui

Maybe I’ll use it in my next project, the demos are good!

And almost all consumer software has AI now.

> But what if you want to add AI to your product? Well, now you have some real inference costs on every request!

Eventually, these companies just lower their costs by using more efficient models. There were consumer companies built on GPT-3.

> There were consumer companies built on GPT-3.

I don't think anyone is doubting this, but were they any good? Remembering back my first interactions with GPT-3, it was fun, but hardly reliable nor "ready for production", besides making cool demos.

> almost all consumer software has AI now

.. whether you want it or not!

We're at the point where it's becoming a product sticker like "fair trade" or "does not contain nuts" to say a product wasn't made with AI.

It makes sense.

But how do you start a Claude Code session without a system prompt?

I thought the same thing, and I generally do a lot of animation in my work, and the results in motion graphics with Qwen are impressive, I really fell in love with it

Curious minds what to know what you are doing animation-wise with Qwen.

Curious how you are using it? Making blender plugins?

Thanks for the tip! I was going to suggest tags, but this is better for me as a reader

Yeah, about half the time, mostly due to poor memory, I use the hcker.news site just because it's faster, more readable and configurable. I'm usually narrowing down to a topic of interest, rather than trying to exclude something.