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The Coming Case for Firing Your CIAM Provider

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/the-coming-case-for-firing-your-ciam
1•mooreds•51s ago•0 comments

The Art of Leaping Out of Planes to Fight Wildfires

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1•adrianhon•1m ago•0 comments

Grokking Apache Iceberg

https://thingsworthsharing.dev/iceberg/
1•stivikivi•3m ago•0 comments

Tim Cook's last day as Apple CEO

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3•ludovicianul•4m ago•0 comments

Race to bottom in Indias voice AI market (0.15 cents/min)

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2•kinj28•5m ago•0 comments

PyDPainter: A usable pixel art program written in Python

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Show HN: Hybrids – a daily flower logic puzzle

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What's the best way to label speakers in a transcript? I measured every option

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1•get-inscribe•8m ago•0 comments

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Show HN: A dedicated hub to find, test, and serve LLM adapters

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For a Thirsty American West, It's Either Cows or Humans

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1•littlexsparkee•11m ago•1 comments

EU Commission Designates ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox Under the DSA

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5•lumannnn•12m ago•1 comments

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1•bookofjoe•12m ago•1 comments

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AI in Education Knowledge Base

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2•edtechdev•16m ago•1 comments

Unpack

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1•mijokaliger•16m ago•0 comments

A new class of memory-based AI (MIRaS) published this week

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2•CTBI_WUSTL•16m ago•0 comments

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We swapped Zed's storage layer for Dagr

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Trivium 30 aug 2026

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2•swah•28m ago•0 comments

The new Go JSON API: twice as fast, or 1.5x slower? – Daniel Lemire's blog

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/29/the-new-go-json-api-twice-as-fast-or-1-5x-slower/
1•ncruces•28m 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?