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Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker

https://www.ft.com/content/e907c2fa-2d3b-4269-bc6c-b2fee4d9f688
1•petethomas•2m ago•0 comments

Insecure Data Storage in IoT Smart Lock App

https://blog.ptidej.net/understanding-insecure-data-storage-in-iot-smart-lock-companion-app/
1•yann-gael•6m ago•1 comments

Chainguard: 1,800 trusted container images to eliminate your vulnerabilities

https://www.chainguard.dev
1•doener•7m ago•0 comments

Big tech is creating its own media bubble to 'win the narrative battle online'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/29/big-tech-silicon-valley-ceo-media
2•1659447091•9m ago•0 comments

Dilution vs. Risk taking: Capital gains taxes and entrepreneurs

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34512
7•hhs•10m ago•0 comments

Harmonic's automated theorem prover Aristotle solves open Erdős problem in Lean

https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/124#post-1892
6•mathfan•11m ago•0 comments

White House launches website to excoriate media for 'biased' stories

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/29/white-house-media-website-trump
1•1659447091•13m ago•0 comments

The long wait is over, Ganymede has arrived

https://endeavouros.com/news/the-long-wait-is-over-ganymede-has-arrived/
1•doener•13m ago•0 comments

Nlmixr2, an R-based OSS challenger to NONMEM/Monolix/Phoenix, joins R Consortium

https://r-consortium.org/posts/nlmixr2-is-becoming-an-r-consortium-working-group/
1•ionychal•17m ago•0 comments

Scala

https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
2•onestay42•19m ago•0 comments

Leonardo shows Michelangelo, an AI missile shield for Europe

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/leonardo-shows-michelangelo-an-ai-missile-shield-for-europe/
1•jshprentz•19m ago•0 comments

Why do most new languages fail? (2012)

https://pointersgonewild.com/2012/06/07/why-do-most-new-languages-fail/
1•azhenley•20m ago•0 comments

Indonesia resists US trade deal 'poison pill'

https://www.ft.com/content/64d27052-a434-4e81-9321-87216eecf99c
3•hhs•20m ago•0 comments

Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/opinion/dynamic-pricing-algorithms.html
4•apparent•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I Wrote a Field Manual on Self-Hosting(Immich,ZFS,Docker)Free on Kindle

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY3XXPNV
2•devmicrosystems•34m ago•0 comments

Make It Easy for Humans

https://tombedor.dev/make-it-easy-for-humans/
1•jjfoooo4•36m ago•0 comments

Gemini Apps limits and upgrades for Google AI subscribers

https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16275805?hl=en
1•doener•36m ago•0 comments

Compiler Explorer now supports Racket

https://godbolt.org/z/z3WffbzaY
1•azhenley•37m ago•0 comments

It's mathematically highly likely that there is life elsewhere in the universe

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576525006599?via%3Dihub
4•Rogach•39m ago•4 comments

Token Visualizer

https://github.com/PeterHdd/token-visualization
1•peterhddcoding•39m ago•1 comments

Zenroom – No-code cryptographic virtual machine

https://zenroom.org/
1•smartmic•49m ago•1 comments

94% zero-shot in a shifting gridworld, no retraining

1•heavymemory•57m ago•0 comments

Mint Is Not TeX

https://mint.ubavic.rs/
3•ubavic•59m ago•2 comments

The Fastest Image Diffing Engine You've Never Heard Of

https://vizzly.dev/blog/honeydiff-vs-odiff-pixelmatch-benchmarks/
3•Robdel12•1h ago•0 comments

Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multithreaded Programs (1997) [pdf]

https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs240/cs240.1054/readings/Tocs97.pdf
1•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments

He Wants a New Start. So He Is Taking the Hardest Driving Test in the World

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/world/europe/london-black-cab-taxi-driving-test.html
1•bookofjoe•1h ago•1 comments

Get Your Kid a Watch

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/smartwatch-kids-screen-time/684975/
5•fortran77•1h ago•1 comments

Pinball Shopify

https://bfcm.shopify.com/
3•SnaKeZ•1h ago•0 comments

Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-dramatic-shift-americans-no-longer-see-four-y...
43•jnord•1h ago•32 comments

Memory-Graph – Knowledge Graph Memory for Claude Code with SQLite/Neo4j/Memgraph

https://github.com/gregorydickson/memory-graph
2•gregorydickson•1h 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•6mo 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•6mo 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?