Stories by orlp

Dyeing to get in (2014)

Samply, a cross-platform command line CPU profiler

The "Bear's Grip" hitch, a new kind of kamikaze knot [video]

Tic-tac-toe implemented in a single call to printf

When Random Isn't

When Random Isn't

Branchless Lomuto Partitioning

Training AI to Play Pokemon with Reinforcement Learning [video]

Subtraction is functionally complete

Subtraction Is Functionally Complete

Show HN: PolymurHash, a fast hash with a mathematically proven collision rate

Bitwise Binary Search: Elegant and Fast

The World's Smallest Hash Table

Show HN: Glidesort, a new stable sort in Rust up to ~4x faster for random data

Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be?