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A Brighter Future for Bazzite (Open Gaming Collective)

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/a-brighter-future-for-bazzite/11575
1•SockThief•52s ago•1 comments

Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/health/forever-chemicals-aging-men-wellness
2•jb1991•1m ago•0 comments

Appeals court tightens Kivimäki's sentence in psychotherapy centre hacking case

https://yle.fi/a/74-20212466
1•Hamuko•3m ago•0 comments

Dr. Deming's philosophy and the 14 Points for Management

https://deming.org/explore/fourteen-points/
1•abracos•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RFC-9591 FROST implemented as a libsecp256k1 extension (C89)

https://github.com/bancaditalia/secp256k1-frost
1•mnardelli•5m ago•0 comments

Music Generation AI Suno CEO Is a Failed Bassist

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2•6stringmerc•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built this toolbox with AI – never wrote a line myself

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1•harrykoreanlee•7m ago•0 comments

Apple Reportedly Agrees to 100% Price Hike on Samsung Memory Chips

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/26/apple-agrees-100-price-hike-samsung-ram/
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Someone just exposed a whole lot of API keys

https://gist.github.com/noctonic/0576b930fca24c33faf90fd2a8935443
1•CraterD•9m ago•0 comments

Chinese industry is beating Germany at its own game. Cue panic

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https://github.com/nullclaw/nullclaw
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As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1059673/57cdcdf73570ac75/
1•jwilk•13m ago•0 comments

Mitch Bradley: Sun Microsystems, Firmware, Forth, OLPC (2008)

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Humans.md

https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-25-humans-md/
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Temporary processing loops as a sometimes replacement for background threads

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Querying 3B Vectors

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/02/21/querying-3-billion-vectors/
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Power from the Sun: Its Future (1968)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.162.3856.857
1•abracos•16m ago•0 comments

Yes, building AI chat is still hard

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I Priced My Dotfiles Syncing App Wrong (and Other Lessons)

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Police Officer Accused of Tracking Partner via Flock Camera License Plate Reader

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Show HN: NSENS – AI decision governance with Prolog and adversarial review

https://github.com/maciejjankowski/nsens-framework
1•mjankowski•23m ago•0 comments

A New Home for React Hosted by the Linux Foundation

https://react.dev/blog/2026/02/24/the-react-foundation
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libreDSSP: A GPL Licensed DSSP Interpreter

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2•falcor84•25m ago•0 comments

Artificial Intelligence and the Economy. Myths, Realities and the Future of Work

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Git in Postgres

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Programming in K

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1•tosh•32m 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•9mo 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•9mo 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?