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The Open Door

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1•RRwood•58s ago•0 comments

Apple Cuts Internal AI Usage Budgets in Move to Reduce Spending

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-04/apple-cuts-internal-ai-usage-budgets-in-move-t...
2•layer8•1m ago•1 comments

The Crackpot Index (1998)

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1•gregsadetsky•3m ago•0 comments

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Foot-stiffening socks could make walking less tiring

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1•samizdis•6m ago•0 comments

Binance hackers used fake job interviews in record heist

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1•rawgabbit•6m ago•1 comments

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1•LifeTrailApp•7m ago•0 comments

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Make more money on consumer subscriptions with Crew Plans

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SWE-2 Flash

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Juju: Modern Codeforge

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The Characters of Theophrastus

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1•gregsadetsky•10m ago•0 comments

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2•acossta•11m ago•0 comments

VMware returns to low-end server virtualization with 'vSphere Express'

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1•andrewstetsenko•12m ago•0 comments

Binance hack> need better software integrity verification

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DeepSeek alone now accounts for 53% of all token volume on Openrouter

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1•GodelNumbering•13m ago•1 comments

Little evidence that data centers cause widespread ground warming

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3•samizdis•13m ago•0 comments

Travis Kalanick's Startup Seed Raising Skilzzz (2009)

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1•aditya•15m ago•0 comments

How Outlook Search is changing: ranking, resilience, and the feedback loop

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Why is your AI using so many tokens?

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1•cisc•18m ago•0 comments

The Brain Injury That Made Edward Freytag a Musical Genius

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1•anarbadalov•19m ago•0 comments

I Made a Stupid Thing

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1•samizdis•22m ago•0 comments

Deserializing Quirky JSON in Rust

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1•gregsadetsky•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ratio – a notepad that calculates as you type

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1•kadharmfn•27m 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?