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Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-08 Cached

Unicode's transliteration rules (UTS #35) are proven to be Turing-complete by compiling 2-tag systems, showing termination is undecidable. This result affects the ICU library used in many systems.

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Super Mario is mathier than you think

MIT Technology Review · 2026-06-23 Cached

Research from the MIT Hardness Group proves that Super Mario levels can be undecidable, meaning no computer program can always determine if Mario can reach the castle, placing Super Mario in the hardest complexity class.

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