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tic-tac-toe in a single call to printf

17 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 11 stories, 6 comments · first 2020-06-05 · latest 2026-06-17

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  1. Unrelated to this story but Carlini rocks. tic tac toe in printf https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe Recently Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions https://github.com/carlini/regex-chess…
    comment by FergusArgyll · 2026-06-17 · in The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety
  2. This guy wrote tic-tac-toe in a single call to printf for IOCCC 2020 competition: https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe
    comment by teleforce · 2025-01-07 · in A minimax chess engine in regular expressions
  3. …https://nebelwelt.net/publications/files/15SEC.pdf [1]: https://github.com/HexHive/printbf [2]: https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe
    comment by thaliaarchi · 2023-07-01 · in Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C
  4. …Effectiveness of Control-Flow Integrity was presented at USENIX proving printf is turing complete. https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical...
    comment by chx · 2020-12-24 · in Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?
  5. On line 57: https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe/blob/master/printt...
    comment by shawnz · 2020-06-07 · in C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf
  6. …adds anything new. [0]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit... [1]: https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe
    comment by jedimastert · 2020-06-05 · in Tic-Tac-Toe Implemented in Single Call to Printf()