Some previous submissions:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138505" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138505</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140319" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140319</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6179041" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6179041</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6452116" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6452116</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6536773" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6536773</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6614809" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6614809</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668253" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6668253</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6819544" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6819544</a><p>There are many, many submissions with "sorting algorithm" in the title:<p><a href="https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%28sor.." rel="nofollow">https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%28sor...</a>.<p>Some look interesting, although you'll need to sift through the repeats. One of the items that got several comments is this one:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5999443" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5999443</a> : O(n) Sorting Algorithm: Quantum Bogosort (uwaterloo.ca)<p>Another:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445963" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445963</a> : Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance (flowingdata.com)<p>And one more:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997621" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997621</a> : Sorting Algorithm Animations (sorting-algorithms.com)<p>Not a huge amount of discussion, but some.
This is how it was done. Interesting read: <a href="http://panthema.net/2013/sound-of-sorting/" rel="nofollow">http://panthema.net/2013/sound-of-sorting/</a>