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Omarchy A – Desktop for Apple iPad and iPhone (A-Series)

https://github.com/OrchardLinux/omarchy-a
1•raybb•4m ago•1 comments

Navigating Turbulent Work Today

https://www.brettmacfarlane.com/blog/2026/innovation-mentorship-ejxzc
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

We are about to hit an inflection point for ATProto

https://bsky.app/profile/brittanyellich.com/post/3n2bv2kr6s22e
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

Technocracy, AI, and the End of the World

https://cosmonautmag.com/2026/07/a-thesis-on-the-history-of-the-21st-century-technocracy-ai-and-t...
1•paimapi•6m ago•0 comments

The Hofmann Wobble: Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/12/the-hofmann-wobble-wikipedia-and-the-problem-of-historical-me...
1•lxm•7m ago•0 comments

Anthropomorphic Software

https://aspiz.uk/wiki/AnthropomorphicSoftware
1•birdculture•10m ago•0 comments

Eric Trump-backed robot soldier startup can't pay staff; founder embezzled $4.6M

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/14/foundation-payroll-ceo-loan.html
1•mikhael•12m ago•0 comments

Site Changes

https://raymii.org/s/blog/Placeholder.html
1•geerlingguy•16m ago•1 comments

"Musk suggested, then insisted, that Mechazilla could catch Starship"

https://twitter.com/WalterIsaacson/status/2121725076919717899
2•TMWNN•17m ago•3 comments

Happy 100th birthday to the U.S. highway system

https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/11/11/happy-100th-birthday-to-the-u-s-highway-system/
1•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

Old Bitly Links Are Being Hijacked

https://ransomnews.com/burger-king-tweet-bitly-link-hijack-2026/
5•hspeiser•22m ago•4 comments

DefCon: Breaking into Amazon Lockers by Any Means Necessary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVmRe8OVZtE
2•brudgers•26m ago•0 comments

Celebrating AO3's 17th Anniversary

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/36761
1•GeoAtreides•27m ago•2 comments

The Healthcare System, Or whatever you call it

https://davebarry.substack.com/p/the-healthcare-system
2•randycupertino•28m ago•1 comments

Delaware considers AI-managed companies

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/delaware-considers-ai-managed-companies-7749604/
2•mitthrowaway2•28m ago•0 comments

Sandboxes for AI Agents

https://shmck.substack.com/p/sandboxes-for-ai-agents
2•ShMcK•31m ago•0 comments

I killed ARTEX on my lunch break

https://garrettstimpson.ca/posts/2026/11/14/i-had-some-time-on-my-lunch-break-so-i-killed-artex/
1•gary23w•32m ago•0 comments

Jiff – A datetime library for Rust – reaches 1.0

https://burntsushi.net/jiff/
2•afdbcreid•33m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do you have internet decision/emotional paralysis?

2•GabrielBRAA•34m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Rbit – Self Hosted Git Forge in Rust

https://rbit.sh/
1•GitRbit•39m ago•0 comments

Duffy pins ground stop on Congress's lack of funding

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6221360-duffy-blames-congress-air-traffic/
1•madihaa•40m ago•3 comments

Electric Comb Promotes Rapid Hair Growth in Mice

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-invented-an-electric-comb-and-tests-in-mice-show-it-promo...
1•gmays•42m ago•0 comments

Israel kidnapped Iranian generals, killed one, in effort to locate Ron Arad

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/15/world/europe/ron-arad-missing-israel-iran-asgari-hunt.html
2•senderista•42m ago•0 comments

Building a Speech Recognizer from Scratch in Rust, No Dependencies

https://speech.tobiokewole.com/
1•flyingsky•42m ago•0 comments

The limiting factor isn't investment. It's founder ability

https://x.com/paulg/status/2122033524857589799
2•mitchweaver•43m ago•1 comments

NYT: Jensen Huang betrayed the leather jacket community

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/opinion/jensen-huang-leather-jacket.html
5•onmysofa•47m ago•0 comments

Reading JSON at 277 GB/s in Python

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/11/14/reading-json-at-277-gb-s-in-python/
2•ibobev•49m ago•0 comments

The AI-Box Experiment (2002)

https://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox
1•gavide•50m ago•0 comments

Colbin: Serialization format faster and smaller than Protobuf. No code-gen

https://github.com/ivanjoz/colbin
1•ivan-ang•53m ago•1 comments

Boeing-Lockheed rocket fails mid-flight, destroys payload of Amazon satellites

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-rocket-fails-after-launch-payload-amazon-in...
12•rexbee•55m ago•5 comments
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Show HN: DualMix128 – A fast, simple PRNG passing PractRand (32TB) and BigCrush

https://github.com/the-othernet/DualMix128
5•the_othernet•1y ago
Hi HN,

I'd like to share DualMix128, a pseudo-random number generator I developed. It's written in C and achieves very high speed while maintaining strong statistical properties for non-cryptographic use.

GitHub (MIT License): https://github.com/the-othernet/DualMix128

Key points:

* *Fast:* Benchmarked at ~0.36 ns per 64-bit generation on GCC 11.4 (-O3 -march=native). This was over 2x faster than `xoroshiro128++` (~0.74 ns) and competitive with `wyrand` (~0.36 ns) in the same tests. (Benchmark code/results in repo).

* *Robust:* Passes the full TestU01 BigCrush suite and PractRand up to 32TB with no anomalies reported. (Test harnesses/logs in repo).

* *Simple Algorithm:* Uses a 128-bit state (two `uint64_t`) with simple mixing based on addition, XOR, rotation, and a final multiplication by the golden ratio constant.

* *C Implementation:* Minimal dependencies (`stdint.h` for core), straightforward C code.

This came out of exploring simple constructions for efficient PRNGs that still hold up under heavy statistical testing.

Curious to hear feedback on the design, performance, potential applications, or any weaknesses you might spot. Thanks!

Comments

thomaskoopman•1y ago
Very cool, fast and looks like it should vectorize too. Do you have a jump function for parallel seeding?

How did you come up with this, some number-theoretic basis or more experimental?