Hackernews posts about Advent of Code

Advent of Code is an annual online programming challenge that takes place from December 1st to December 25th, where participants solve increasingly difficult puzzles and code problems in the style of a Christmas advent calendar.

1. Show HN: Admiran: a pure, lazy functional language and self-hosting compiler (github.com)
   2 points by taolson 26 days ago | discuss
2. Ask HN: Does code style matter much anymore?
   4 points by travisgriggs 22 days ago | 4 comments
3. Advent of Code 2024 (adventofcode.com)
   1388 points by thinkingemote over 1 year ago | 554 comments
4. Advent of Code 2025 (adventofcode.com)
   1243 points by vismit2000 4 months ago | 397 comments
5. Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
   484 points by greghn over 1 year ago | 107 comments
6. Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time (adventofcode.com)
   480 points by vismit2000 5 months ago | 219 comments
7. I tried Gleam for Advent of Code (blog.tymscar.com)
   351 points by tymscar 4 months ago | 214 comments
8. A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code (github.com)
   290 points by andsoitis 6 months ago | 253 comments
9. Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS (sailor.li)
   201 points by zdw over 1 year ago | 52 comments
10. Performance of LLMs on Advent of Code 2024 (www.jerpint.io)
    135 points by jerpint over 1 year ago | 92 comments
11. Internationalization-puzzles: Daily programming puzzles just like Advent of Code (i18n-puzzles.com)
    131 points by birdculture about 1 year ago | 6 comments
12. Advent of Code on the Z-Machine (entropicthoughts.com)
    108 points by todsacerdoti 5 months ago | 20 comments
13. Advent of Code 2024 and BQN (nrk.neocities.org)
    59 points by ingve about 1 year ago | 7 comments
14. Formally verifying Advent of Code using Dijkstra's program construction (haripm.com)
    57 points by seafoamteal 4 months ago | 8 comments
15. Advent of Code 2025: The AI Edition – By Peter Norvig (github.com)
    51 points by vismit2000 4 months ago | 15 comments
16. Advent of Code 2025 will have 12 problems and no global leaderboard (old.reddit.com)
    50 points by nneonneo 5 months ago | 8 comments
17. Ask HN: Which language for Advent of Code in 2024?
    29 points by usgroup over 1 year ago | 31 comments
18. Solving Advent of Code at compile time with Rust macros (doublefree.bearblog.dev)
    24 points by todsacerdoti over 1 year ago | 9 comments
19. AI Advent of Code: Implementing Papers (www.leetarxiv.com)
    22 points by muragekibicho over 1 year ago | 9 comments
20. Advent of Code analysis through the years (jvanelteren.github.io)
    20 points by chkas over 1 year ago | 4 comments
21. December Adventure (Advent of Code alternative) (eli.li)
    16 points by triyambakam over 1 year ago | 1 comments
22. Advent of Code 2024 Day 1 but in the visual programming language vvvv (www.youtube.com)
    10 points by tebjan over 1 year ago | 2 comments
23. Interactive Advent of Code Writeups in Q (q.kx.com)
    10 points by rak1507 over 1 year ago | discuss
24. Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    8 points by congoe over 1 year ago | 2 comments
25. Advent of Code player threatened with $150k lawsuit for sharing problems/inputs (old.reddit.com)
    8 points by immibis over 1 year ago | discuss
26. Day 1 – Advent of Code 2024 (adventofcode.com)
    7 points by praseodym over 1 year ago | 3 comments
27. Show HN: Advent of SQL – A Daily SQL Puzzle Calendar Inspired by Advent of Code (www.dbpro.app)
    7 points by upmostly 4 months ago | discuss
28. Easters – an adventofcode-like challenge for easter (easters.dev)
    7 points by todsacerdoti 12 months ago | discuss
29. Advent of Code 2024 is nigh (adventofcode.com)
    7 points by vismit2000 over 1 year ago | discuss
30. Solving Advent of Code 2024 in Under 1ms (github.com)
    6 points by indiv0 over 1 year ago | 1 comments
31. Advent of Code 2024 (adventofcode.com)
    6 points by backslash_16 over 1 year ago | discuss
32. LLMs vs. Advent of Code, AI is winning (blog.scottlogic.com)
    5 points by ColinEberhardt over 1 year ago | discuss