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. Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time (adventofcode.com)
   478 points by vismit2000 7 days ago | 219 comments
2. A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code (github.com)
   290 points by andsoitis 29 days ago | 253 comments
3. Advent of Code 2025 will have 12 problems and no global leaderboard (old.reddit.com)
   50 points by nneonneo 11 days ago | 8 comments
4. Advent of Code 2025, there will be 12 days of puzzles (adventofcode.com)
   4 points by praseodym 11 days ago | 1 comments
5. Advent of Code is 12 days this year (adventofcode.com)
   3 points by rdtsc 10 days ago | 1 comments
6. Advent of Code reduced to 12 days (Dec 1 – 12) (adventofcode.com)
   2 points by lrsjng 11 days ago | 1 comments
7. Advent of Code (adventofcode.com)
   2 points by andsoitis 14 days ago | discuss
8. Advent of Code 2024 (adventofcode.com)
   1388 points by thinkingemote 11 months ago | 554 comments
9. Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
   484 points by greghn 10 months ago | 107 comments
10. Advent of Code 2023 is nigh (adventofcode.com)
    297 points by i13e almost 2 years ago | 303 comments
11. Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code (blog.vero.site)
    243 points by polyrand almost 2 years ago | 96 comments
12. Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS (sailor.li)
    201 points by zdw 11 months ago | 52 comments
13. ChatGPT does Advent of Code 2023 (www.themotte.org)
    185 points by luu almost 2 years ago | 175 comments
14. Performance of LLMs on Advent of Code 2024 (www.jerpint.io)
    135 points by jerpint 10 months ago | 92 comments
15. Internationalization-puzzles: Daily programming puzzles just like Advent of Code (i18n-puzzles.com)
    131 points by birdculture 8 months ago | 6 comments
16. Day 20: My favourite problem from Advent of Code 2023 (mliezun.github.io)
    82 points by nickdevx almost 2 years ago | 47 comments
17. Learning Jai via Advent of Code (www.forrestthewoods.com)
    72 points by mooreds almost 2 years ago | 51 comments
18. Advent of Code 2024 and BQN (nrk.neocities.org)
    59 points by ingve 9 months ago | 7 comments
19. Show HN: Advent of Code CLI (github.com)
    40 points by ttobi almost 2 years ago | 23 comments
20. Ask HN: Which language for Advent of Code in 2024?
    29 points by usgroup 11 months ago | 31 comments
21. Advent of Code 2023 Day 2: Cube Conundrum (adventofcode.com)
    26 points by susanthenerd almost 2 years ago | 8 comments
22. Solving Advent of Code at compile time with Rust macros (doublefree.bearblog.dev)
    24 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 9 comments
23. AI Advent of Code: Implementing Papers (www.leetarxiv.com)
    22 points by muragekibicho 11 months ago | 9 comments
24. Advent of Code analysis through the years (jvanelteren.github.io)
    20 points by chkas 10 months ago | 4 comments
25. December Adventure (Advent of Code alternative) (eli.li)
    16 points by triyambakam 11 months ago | 1 comments
26. Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code (2022) (www.forrestthewoods.com)
    14 points by takemine almost 2 years ago | 5 comments
27. Advent of Code 2024 Day 1 but in the visual programming language vvvv (www.youtube.com)
    10 points by tebjan 11 months ago | 2 comments
28. Interactive Advent of Code Writeups in Q (q.kx.com)
    10 points by rak1507 11 months ago | discuss
29. Ask HN: Which language will you try for this year's Advent of Code and why?
    9 points by aredox almost 2 years ago | 7 comments
30. Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
    8 points by congoe 10 months ago | 2 comments
31. Advent of Code player threatened with $150k lawsuit for sharing problems/inputs (old.reddit.com)
    8 points by immibis 11 months ago | discuss
32. Day 1 – Advent of Code 2024 (adventofcode.com)
    7 points by praseodym 11 months ago | 3 comments
33. Easters – an adventofcode-like challenge for easter (easters.dev)
    7 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | discuss
34. Advent of Code 2024 is nigh (adventofcode.com)
    7 points by vismit2000 11 months ago | discuss
35. Advent of Code 2023 has begun (adventofcode.com)
    7 points by fdeage almost 2 years ago | discuss
36. Advent of Code 2023 (adventofcode.com)
    6 points by freilanzer almost 2 years ago | 3 comments
37. Solving Advent of Code 2024 in Under 1ms (github.com)
    6 points by indiv0 10 months ago | 1 comments