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1•Razengan•1m ago•0 comments

Gpsjam GPS/GNSS Interference Map

https://gpsjam.org/
1•jonbaer•5m ago•0 comments

The Quantum Curtain

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2026/03/quantum-curtain/411967/
2•jonbaer•8m ago•0 comments

Stacksort

https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/
1•mihau•9m ago•0 comments

Mesh – remote mobile forensics and network monitoring

https://github.com/BARGHEST-ngo/MESH
1•0x0v1•9m ago•1 comments

MacBook Neo Review: Better Than You Think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGeXGdYE7UE
1•keepamovin•10m ago•0 comments

Encode/httpx: Closing off access

https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/3784
2•luismedel•10m ago•0 comments

A Kubernetes operator that orchestrates AI coding agents

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1•bobbydeveaux•12m ago•1 comments

AI Agent Hacks McKinsey

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Movies I Highly Recommend

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1•programmexxx•15m ago•0 comments

Richard Feynman's story illustrating the problem of p-hacking

https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/2031604331510690112
4•MrBuddyCasino•22m ago•0 comments

Glanceway – Collect RSS and custom plugin data in your macOS menu bar

https://glanceway.app
1•codytseng•23m ago•1 comments

Unbash: Fast 0-deps bash parser written in TypeScript

https://github.com/webpro-nl/unbash
1•mariuz•24m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is there a market for a security-audited Claude Code skills newsletter?

1•camicortazar•25m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Institute

https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-institute
4•meetpateltech•25m ago•1 comments

Gemini 2 Is the Top Model for Embeddings

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2•tifa2up•29m ago•0 comments

Tutorials in Optomechanics

https://wp.optics.arizona.edu/optomech/tutorials-in-optomechanics/
1•o4c•31m ago•0 comments

A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety

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3•1vuio0pswjnm7•35m ago•1 comments

The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Is Moving to Europe (After 35 Years in the USA)

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3•layer8•38m ago•0 comments

Some Arabic Words Transliterated

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1•programmexxx•40m ago•0 comments

Google to Provide Pentagon with AI Agents

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9•1vuio0pswjnm7•41m ago•2 comments

Europe tops global arms imports, SIPRI reports

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1•breve•46m ago•0 comments

AI-powered apps struggle with long-term retention, new report shows

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2•pseudolus•49m ago•0 comments

My app got 3k users in 48 hours and then monetization almost killed it

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1•DimKat•49m ago•1 comments

PEP 827 – Type Manipulation

https://peps.python.org/pep-0827/
2•EvgeniyZh•49m ago•0 comments

NASA's Van Allen Probe A to re-enter atmosphere

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-nasa-van-allen-probe-atmosphere.html
7•bookmtn•50m ago•0 comments

How age standardization make health metrics comparable

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1•sohkamyung•51m ago•0 comments

Discovering Little Worlds (2020)

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2•wonger_•52m ago•0 comments

Ukraine Reaches a Milestone: Making ‘China-Free’ Drones

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/world/europe/ukraine-drones-china.html
3•giuliomagnifico•52m ago•2 comments

Simple-Git NPM package has CVSS 9.8 RCE; 5M+ weekly downloads–check lockfiles

https://www.codeant.ai/security-research/simple-git-remote-code-execution-cve-2026-28292
1•birdculture•55m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: DualMix128 – A fast, simple PRNG passing PractRand (32TB) and BigCrush

https://github.com/the-othernet/DualMix128
5•the_othernet•10mo 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•10mo 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?