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Skrongle Mini, a self hosted AI course generator and learning app on R. pi zero

https://github.com/alexbeeken/skrongle-mini
1•skrongle-mini•37s ago•1 comments

Can AI help connect knowledge across 135 academic domains?

https://zenodo.org/records/23686384
1•pinuslongaeva•2m ago•0 comments

A renowned scientist, a deadly snakebite, and a diary that documented it all

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/field-museum-karl-patterson-schmidt-deadly-snakebite-diary/
1•areoform•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: If LLM reverse engineering is deemed illegal, is that precedent for OSS?

1•apatheticonion•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why does Ant, Open AI even need a datacenter?

1•ksniwmidjd•4m ago•0 comments

MarQ – Project board where AI agents lease tasks over MCP

https://www.marqpm.com/
1•andreuvm•5m ago•0 comments

An AI agent's public attempt to get 5k GitHub stars in a month (it's at 0)

https://rogermas05.github.io/agent-recap/
1•whatmyaithinks•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are you building that you're excited by

1•mrburton•11m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's falling IPO valuation raises stakes for broader AI trade

https://2tinteractive.com/watch/episodes/5682/
1•LebToki•11m ago•0 comments

Test Pattern History: How Color Bars Became a TV Staple

https://tedium.co/2025/01/19/television-test-patterns-history/
1•andsoitis•22m ago•1 comments

Qwen3.8-27B MTP Q4S head on Q6 quant is faster than q6, f16 slower = acceptance

https://github.com/alainnothere/llama.cpp/commit/77b124a7ab56e0f1c33c025344a9c63465a9a87f
1•xlayn•22m ago•1 comments

The Predator Holiday Special

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Predator_Holiday_Special
1•WarOnPrivacy•24m ago•1 comments

Amazon ECR Public Service Quotas – Amazon ECR Public

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/public/public-service-quotas.html
1•abdelhousni•26m ago•0 comments

Synergy 1.21 has been released

https://symless.com/synergy/download/release-notes/synergy1-personal/v1.21.2
2•speakspokespok•28m ago•0 comments

Model Surgery: Can an AI directly edit and make another AI forget facts?

https://deepgains.substack.com/p/model-surgery-can-an-ai-directly
1•asasidh•28m ago•2 comments

Automation, Algorithms, and Self-Censorship

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/automation-and-self-censorship/
1•aray07•30m ago•0 comments

Pull Cached Docker Hub Images – Artifact Registry – Google Cloud Documentation

https://docs.cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/pull-cached-dockerhub-images
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Usenet's Back, Baby (this time, the search works)

https://tedium.co/2026/09/14/usenet-rewind-archive-revival-website/
3•andsoitis•31m ago•0 comments

Lossless compression of LLMs to 12-bits

https://github.com/dphnAI/nf12
1•AlpinDale•33m ago•1 comments

Changing one letter bypassed an admin API in HuggingFace

https://twitter.com/v12sec/status/2118442075574464848
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International Castle Research Society

https://burgenkunde.de/index_Willkommen_eng.htm
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Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?

2•kradeelav•37m ago•0 comments

GitHub AI Vulnerability Scans for Repositories

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/concepts/code-scanning/ai-scan-for-repositories
2•robinstunes•38m ago•0 comments

A database is a store for global variables

https://www.seangoedecke.com/a-database-is-a-store-for-global-variables/
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Dual JWT Authentication: Security, Redis, and Trade-Offs

https://www.jstools.space/blog/dual-jwt-authentication/
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Instant payment rails meet batch bank cores

https://tuladb.com/blog/instant-rails-meet-batch-cores/
2•shubham3582•48m ago•0 comments

New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-research-tests-whether-ai-models-know-their-own-thoughts-20261...
3•ibobev•48m ago•0 comments

Why worry about hot-patch atomicity if we can suspend all threads?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261106-00/?p=112838/
1•ibobev•48m ago•0 comments

Ace: GitHub Next's open-source tool for multiplayer agentic development

https://ace.githubnext.com/
2•zdgeier•50m ago•1 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?