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Weren't you supposed to wait until the submissions close to publish spoilers?

(Or did they close yesterday?)

> Submissions close on September 4th, 2026.

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic...

I emailed them and asked as I'm in Sydney and didn't want to mess it up - they said to wait until the end of my workday, so I posted it at roughly 5:30 my time. I hope I didn't spoil it!

Their logistics were a bit weird: they asked not to post spoilers, but also ask you to link to your write-up.

In any case, I had it all worked out already. But looking at other people's submissions today showed me that I found some easter eggs other hadn't. That was encouraging. (And I missed some that others found, of course.)

I was confused about that too - I ended up posting an empty page to generate the link ahead of time (and hoping that it wouldn't get picked up by anything), then actually posting the solution later.

I also realised I'd missed a lot of easter eggs, like the morse code - I wish I'd spotted that!

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