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Birds Are Shit

https://birdsareshit.com/
1•ohjeez•42s ago•0 comments

By Opening a Model, a Chinese A.I. Lab May Test the World's Cybersecurity

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/science/cybersecurity-zai-open-weights.html
1•bookofjoe•2m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I might have built the best Linear alternative

https://github.com/croffasia/itsaplan
1•Croffasia•7m ago•0 comments

PCSX2 2.8.0 is now out This release is PACKED

https://pcsx2.net/blog/2026/pcsx2-2.8/
2•sergiotapia•9m ago•0 comments

"We want it to confuse people, but also make people happy."

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1•zdw•9m ago•0 comments

Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online

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2•throw0101a•11m ago•0 comments

Twitter (Not affiliated with X Corp)

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3•JetSpiegel•13m ago•0 comments

The issue with AI video generation

https://dimension.so/
1•samit_manjunath•14m ago•0 comments

Free K–12 lessons to prepare students for life

https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-literacy
1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

Some frameworks for helping each other amidst the mess

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3•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments

How the weather in space can affect us on Earth

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1•mooreds•18m ago•0 comments

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1•mormonnegro•19m ago•0 comments

States can regulate prediction markets as gambling, federal appeals court rules

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/business/states-prediction-markets-gambling-federal-appeals-court
1•healsdata•19m ago•0 comments

Goubau line (single wire transmission line)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goubau_line
1•RicoElectrico•21m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes Secrets Management

https://infisical.com/blog/kubernetes-secrets-management
1•vmatsiiako•22m ago•1 comments

AI should be illegal until we figure out how to deal with its consequences

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2•AmbroseBierce•22m ago•1 comments

August 27 outage: Incident report

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1•Cider9986•26m ago•1 comments

A free and public search engine for all browser extensions

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What does it mean for data to be AI ready?

https://sina.bio/posts/what-does-it-mean-for-data-to-be-ai-ready.html
1•sinab•27m ago•0 comments

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Getting Ridge Regression Right

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The Myth of the Cynical Genius

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3•reaperducer•39m ago•0 comments

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1•aray07•44m ago•0 comments

Omnipresent availability risks in cloud software

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2•azhenley•45m ago•0 comments

AI surveillance in schools raises safety and equity concerns

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2•hn_acker•47m ago•4 comments

US Kobo Sales Double?

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2•seam_carver•51m ago•1 comments

Research: Why You Shouldn't Treat AI Agents Like Employees

https://hbr.org/2026/05/research-why-you-shouldnt-treat-ai-agents-like-employees
1•njrc•53m ago•1 comments

Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a "brazen campaign" of intellectual

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2•sbulaev•55m ago•0 comments

The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati

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3•oriettaxx•58m ago•0 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?