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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) announced its 2024 winners after a four-year hiatus, featuring 23 winning entries in its 40th anniversary edition. Notable submissions include Adrian Cable's deceptive multiplication table code that produces unexpected output through Unicode manipulation, Ilya Kurdyukov's moon-shaped program that displays lunar phases, and Nicholas Carlini's compact Intel 4004 emulator. The contest celebrates creatively obscure C programming, originating from frustrations with debugging early Unix shell code that used ALGOL-like macros.

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest is back for 2024