My old blog

New blog: https://yurichev.com/news/.

Main topics are reverse engineering, programming, math... Missing something? Read here.

Apr-2022: Many outdated Oracle-related posts are removed -- no one was reading them anyway.

• Yet another explanation of the Quicksort algorithm (23-Nov-2019)
• [Linux] Simplest possible snapshot-style backups using rsync (16-Oct-2019)
• Cracking simple XOR cipher with simulated annealing (21-Jul-2019)
• Packing students into dorm using simulated annealing (28-Jun-2019)
• Make shortest cables in your rack using simulated annealing (27-Jun-2019)
• Generating Malbolge code using simulated annealing (26-Jun-2019)
• (Windows 7) Solitaire practical joke, part II (27-May-2019)
• (Windows 7) Solitaire practical joke (16-May-2019)
• Autocomplete using Markov chains (20-Feb-2019)
• Worst sorting algorithm I ever saw: proving it using KLEE (25-Jul-2018)
• Cracking simple LCG PRNG (02-Mar-2017)
• Content-addressable storage (27-Sep-2015)
• Typeless programming languages (BCPL, B), C evolution and decompiling (08-Sep-2015)
• Fuzzy string matching + simplest possible spellchecking + hunting for typos and misspellings in Wikipedia (23-Jul-2015)
• Tweaking LLVM Obfuscator + quick look into some of LLVM internals (16-May-2015)
• Making C compiler generate obfuscated code (07-Dec-2010)