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RL economics, morally charged terms, and "distillation"

https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-06-15-rl-economics-morally-charged-terms-and-distillat...
1•samuel246•2m ago•0 comments

How to prevent white clothes from turning yellow in storage

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1•teleforce•2m ago•0 comments

Tokensave: An MCP Server That Saved Me Tokens While Coding

https://www.tobiasreithmeier.de/en/blog/tokensave-mcp-server-tutorial-review
1•freediver•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Synapse – local codebase indexer and MCP server for Claude Code

https://github.com/nrkoka786/synapse
1•nrkoka1•15m ago•0 comments

Overload and insight look identical from the outside

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1•momentmaker•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free car spec db to defeat the paywalls

https://openlaborproject.com/
1•chackleman•21m ago•1 comments

Madison Square Garden Sues Wired Magazine over L.G.B.T.Q. Tracking Report

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/business/media/msg-entertainment-sues-wired-magazine.html
1•ChrisArchitect•22m ago•1 comments

How Word Count Is Important for Social Media Posts

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William Gaddis and William H. Gass: A Literary Conversation and Reading (1995)

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1•ofalkaed•39m ago•0 comments

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LLM-Integrated Multivariable Calculus Course

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Topographical Collection of King George III

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Useless Use of Cat Award

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China cracks down on AI companions, forcing millions to break up

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3•defrost•1h ago•1 comments

Archaeologists found Homer's Iliad inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260713084918.htm
4•NordStreamYacht•2h 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?