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If a Switch is an ARM64-verse. Then ScarletNX is FEX but in reverse

https://scarletnx.github.io
1•mococa•4m ago•0 comments

Fixing C Strings with String Views

https://eliasebner.com/blog/guides/fixing-strings-in-c/
1•birdculture•4m ago•0 comments

The 800XL – By Paul Lefebvre – Goto 10

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/the-800xl
1•rbanffy•5m ago•0 comments

Becoming a stranger in my own field

https://mariya.fyi/posts/stranger-in-my-own-field
1•ot•5m ago•0 comments

Don't build a new SaaS. Fix the gaps in your 10-year-old one

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1x7c0m8/dont_build_a_new_saas_fix_the_gaps_in_your/
1•nitingohel•6m ago•0 comments

Models know when they're reward hacking

https://www.goodfire.com/research/reward-hacking-activation-monitors
1•tie-in•8m ago•0 comments

If you order the jagged frontier by data it looks like a spiral frontier

https://twitter.com/i/status/2110631576505569493
1•Michelangelo11•9m ago•0 comments

CoreWeave Founders Shield Fortunes with $3.3B Stock Sales

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/coreweave-founders-shield-fortunes-3-202255611....
2•novaRom•10m ago•0 comments

'The Odyssey' Was Shot on Real Film. This Is the Only Place Left Making It.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/arts/kodak-film-the-odyssey.html
2•bookofjoe•13m ago•1 comments

How pro-China are Chinese models?

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/china-us-analysis
3•rudolftheone•14m ago•3 comments

How the Claude Code team does code review

https://claude.dev/blog/solving-code-review-at-anthropic/
1•garo-pro•17m ago•1 comments

Python on Vercel is now generally available

https://vercel.com/blog/python-on-vercel-is-now-generally-available
2•joshcsimmons•18m ago•0 comments

AlbertCode, an AI software engineering agent for building applications

https://www.albertcode.dev
2•huynvic•21m ago•2 comments

Anatomy of a Machine's Ancestors via Claude

https://pub.towardsai.net/anatomy-of-a-machines-ancestors-9be6be2eed38?sharedUserId=carmineds
1•cadeos•22m ago•0 comments

The Slackware Way (2012)

https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:philosophy
1•Tomte•22m ago•0 comments

Using a funded test cryptocurrency wallet without authorization

https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/using-a-funded-test-cryptocurrency-wallet-witho...
2•ben_w•22m ago•0 comments

What is a forward deployed engineer, and do you need one?

https://madsalt.tech/blog/what-is-a-forward-deployed-engineer/
2•shon_marshall•29m ago•0 comments

Researchers who cloned horse: 'It would not be complicated to clone humans'

https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-10-15/the-researchers-who-achieved-chiles-first-clo...
2•geox•30m ago•0 comments

Memory Under Noise: Why AI-Assistant Memory Engines Lose the Evidence

https://www.aai-labs.com/en/research/memory-under-noise
1•tasubotadas•31m ago•0 comments

Neutron's first launch slips again amid trouble with carbon composites

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/rocket-lab-announces-another-delay-for-its-medium-lift-neut...
1•world2vec•32m ago•0 comments

R/Nvidia mods delete post asking about always on MCP server

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/s/GZu3HWJpAc
2•redman25•35m ago•0 comments

What I Mean When I Say That I Start from Absence

https://medium.com/@pheverdotexe/what-i-mean-when-i-say-that-i-start-from-absence-4869d23ef263
1•Pheverdotexe•35m ago•0 comments

Cortical Labs' biOS: The server rack that has to be fed every three days

https://internationalfinance.com/magazine/technology-magazine/the-server-rack-that-has-to-be-fed-...
2•baranul•35m ago•0 comments

What an Abundant America Would Feel Like

https://abio.substack.com/p/what-an-abundant-america-would-feel
1•cpach•37m ago•0 comments

A Guide on How to Avoid Slop Granades

https://leandrooriente.com/writing/avoiding-slop-grenades
2•enriquefrade•39m ago•0 comments

The Rent of Taste: Generative Systems and the Reproduction of the Artistic New

https://medium.com/@smoking2man/the-rent-of-taste-generative-systems-and-the-reproduction-of-the-...
1•Aldus551•39m ago•0 comments

Using a PS3 Navigation Controller on Arch Linux

https://sava.rocks/tutorials/how-to-use-a-ps3-navigation-controller-with-arch-linux/
1•SavaRocks•40m ago•0 comments

Study: Human–machine interaction is better than its reputation

https://www.mpg.de/27037803/human-learning-is-an-underestimated-factor-in-the-success-of-human-ai...
1•giuliomagnifico•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Control how much your AI agent can spend with Keydris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fboNucIC3uU
1•Osman_728•41m ago•0 comments

Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/japanese-people-sex-inactivity-inexperience
5•baranul•42m ago•8 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?