helloworld-bruteforced
One of the most cursed ways of writing Hello World program in C
Details
- External ID
- 1363729398
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- helloworld-bruteforced
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 38
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7717140661029976
- Tags
- brute, brute-force, brute-force-attack, brute-force-attacks, bruteforce, bruteforce-attacks, hello, hello-world, helloworld, linux, memory, obfuscation, security
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- brute-force hello world implementation in c
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an esoteric/novelty C program that bruteforces ASCII characters to output 'Hello World', which is trivial to vibe code in minutes.
Competitors
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Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
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