The canonical rps program contest is http://www.rpscontest.com/ and many of the entries get surprisingly good.
Of course these things will always have to assume a semi strategic opponent.
Thanks !
Following your link I found this
https://daniel.lawrence.lu/programming/rps/
Submitted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44105859
There goes my afternoon, nicely nerd sniped :) Thank you.