News Summary

• The International Obfuscated C Coding Challenge (IOCCC), with 2025’s entrants once again showing their mettle.
• Among the winning entries we got fun ones like ‘Most likely to shock’ by [Yusuke Endoh] which generates a Lichtenberg figure in ASCII in the terminal.
• There are also quite practical ones, such as the ‘Best real emulator’ winner by [Nick Craig-Wood], whose entry is a functional Game Boy emulator.