Hacker News Reader

Comment by wood_spirit | Hacker News Reader

Discovered a tiny but alive Corewars contest online in the early 2000s and discovered the wonders of computer communities over distances that were insurmountable in real life. Thank you.

View on HN

Corewars is great and was my first contact with programming when I was a child, as my father was (and still is) a very active member of its small community. I also won two youth computer science contests with a topic about corewar. It's very dear to my heart and probably what ignited my love for programming overall and changed the course of my whole life :)

Ah where does the community hang out these days?

My memory is that it used to be some irc and a lot of an email group, but memory too fuzzy.

Is the contest continuing in the present ?

I think it’s much quieter but perhaps it is just needing a few new HNers to discover the intoxicating subtlety? http://www.corewars.org/

There's still some occasional activity on KOTH.

http://www.koth.org/koth.html

The various hills:

    Last battle concluded at : Wed Feb 28 11:12:29 UTC 2024
    Last battle concluded at : Sun Mar 31 23:34:21 UTC 2024
    Last battle concluded at : Sun Mar 31 23:31:47 UTC 2024
    Last battle concluded at : Fri Feb 2 12:56:46 UTC 2024
    Last battle concluded at : Sun Mar 31 14:14:39 UTC 2024
    Last battle concluded at : Tue Jan 3 18:37:10 UTC 2023

'88 standard doesn't seem to be as popular as the '94 standard.

http://www.koth.org/info.html has scans of the original article.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com