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Demystifying Complex Configurations

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2026/demystifying-complex-configurations//
1•birdculture•48s ago•0 comments

Thoughts on Omarchy

https://chrissy.dev/notes/thoughts-on-omarchy/
2•meetpateltech•3m ago•0 comments

No Graphics API

https://github.com/sebbbi/NoGraphicsAPI
2•sagacity•4m ago•0 comments

Gap between how your team sees you AND how you see yourself

https://highimpactengineering.substack.com/p/the-gap-between-how-i-saw-myself
3•cmpit•4m ago•0 comments

We have found stable singularity on 3D Euler

https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/2097216195342864528
2•YeGoblynQueenne•6m ago•0 comments

Automatically detecting AI text in my browser

https://www.seangoedecke.com/deckard/
4•swah•7m ago•1 comments

By coincidence an independent result on Euler blowup has been released

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117234157753860650
2•YeGoblynQueenne•9m ago•0 comments

Ancient Egypt in 3D

https://expeditione.fun/expeditions/ancient-egypt/
2•thunderbong•9m ago•0 comments

How to export Gemini chats to pdf [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFdp8DUfDco
3•quysala12•9m ago•0 comments

World Model (Artificial Intelligence)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_model_(artificial_intelligence)
3•doener•12m ago•0 comments

Project Tapestry

https://thealliance.ai/projects/tapestry
2•doener•13m ago•0 comments

Plasma Studio

https://thelibre.news/announcing-plasma-studio/
3•DeepLogin•13m ago•0 comments

What Can You Do with a Local LLM?

https://grigio.org/what-can-you-actually-do-with-a-local-llm/
2•grigio•15m ago•0 comments

TCP-Brutal v2 released: A rate-based TCP congestion control algorithm

https://github.com/HyNetworks/tcp-brutal
2•NeverBehave•16m ago•1 comments

A continuing problem: human-generated content

https://github.com/geoff1111/AI-post/blob/main/README.md
2•Egret•16m ago•0 comments

Property Graph Queries reverted from Postgres 19 after third beta

https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=b1f106c80cbeb18d3a0219994d98a51a6e...
2•gmac•17m ago•1 comments

Be Easy to Leave

https://codebahn.net/blog/be-easy-to-leave/
2•maxheyer•19m ago•0 comments

Xiaomi Announces Foldable iPhone Rival

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/07/xiaomi-announces-foldable-iphone-rival/
2•ksec•20m ago•0 comments

Vaenyx – A personal AI app for family

https://github.com/vaenyxai/core
2•vaenyxai•20m ago•0 comments

The Carob Trust Prize for Academic Courage

https://www.thecarobtrust.org/the-prize
2•mpweiher•22m ago•0 comments

The 'Covered List': A Fraud Claimed 'National Security'

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the--covered-list---a-fraud-claimed--national-security
2•heisenbit•23m ago•0 comments

Why Gen Z Loves Brain Rot

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/opinion/gen-z-tiktok-ig-reels.html
2•_tk_•25m ago•0 comments

WeWorm – First zero-click worm to spread through WeChat calls

https://blog.calif.io/p/weworm
3•quyleanh•25m ago•1 comments

Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever Did

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/streaming-inflation-raising-prices-cable...
2•thm•30m ago•0 comments

Chromium/Chrome team witholds support for Icelandic language in Intl API

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40624456
1•saevarom•32m ago•0 comments

PromptCube

https://promptcube3.com/en/
1•lucascaijia•34m ago•0 comments

Firelight and the Origins of Spoken Language

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2078/20260602/483174/Firelight-and-the-origin...
1•harscoat•37m ago•0 comments

Netflix Moves Toward Open Source Flink Autoscaler for 30k Streaming Jobs

https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/netflix-flink-autoscaler/
1•theanonymousone•40m ago•0 comments

Why getting your hands dirty is good for you

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260904-how-getting-your-hands-dirty-boosts-your-health-withi...
14•HatchedLake721•41m ago•6 comments

Quantum-Drive-Solver high-performance, memory-efficient optimization engine

https://github.com/blueray313164-a11y/Quantum-Drive-Solver
1•Bluestein•42m 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?