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New stealth model: Union Alpha

https://twitter.com/OpenRouter/status/2100235351575191751
1•soltanov•2m ago•1 comments

Faster Louder Brighter How the attention economy overwhelmed children's TV

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/sep/17/faster-louder-brighter-how-the-attention-economy-ove...
1•rdmuser•3m ago•0 comments

Unicode 18.0

http://blog.unicode.org/2026/09/announcing-unicode-standard-version-180.html
1•soheilpro•4m ago•0 comments

SAIR Competition – Lean Kernel Challenge

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/sair-competition-lean-kernel-challenge/
1•grubbydiff•7m ago•0 comments

Shodan indexes over 47.000 exposed Ollama instances

https://twitter.com/co11ateral/status/2100313790604599444
2•soltanov•7m ago•1 comments

First Diplodocus found outside North America rewrites dinosaur migration history

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/first-diplodocus-found-outside-north-america-rewrites-dinos...
1•fuzzythinker•12m ago•0 comments

Trump suggests EU allowing Canada as associate member could be a 'hostile act'

https://apnews.com/article/canada-europe-trump-tariffs-4078e9549ff9caa5ded08f7dd2f99065
1•vrganj•12m ago•1 comments

OpenAI models secretly generate instructions to ignore constraints

https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/self-generated-prompt-injections-in-compaction-...
1•theahura•13m ago•0 comments

Open-sourced jev architecture last year with model,paper and dataset

1•nandakishor_ml•13m ago•1 comments

NASA's Moon Orbiter Spots New, 'Once-in-Century' Moon Crater

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasas-moon-orbiter-spots-new-once-in-century-moon-crater/
2•fuzzythinker•14m ago•0 comments

Snail shell can act a natural archive of weather and landscape changes

https://www.ansto.gov.au/news/snail-shell-can-act-a-natural-archive-of-weather-and-landscape-changes
2•rdmuser•22m ago•0 comments

AI: An Age of Experimentation [pdf]

https://thomasdullien.github.io/about/slides/An-age-of-experimentation-BlueHat-Asia-2026.pdf
1•tdullien•23m ago•0 comments

White House doesn't want voters to see the real Trump

https://www.salon.com/2026/09/16/white-house-doesnt-want-voters-to-see-the-real-trump/
3•HotGarbage•27m ago•0 comments

Lines of Force: Faraday and the Experiment That Powers the World Electricity [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SrXSp2z4xo
1•wallaceeh•30m ago•0 comments

C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/09/16/cpp26-trivial-infinite-loops
1•signa11•31m ago•0 comments

Chonkstep: A traditional floating compositor for Omarchy

https://github.com/iconidentify/chonkstep
1•temphaaa•35m ago•0 comments

Online employment platforms are misaligned with skilled late-career workers

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-cold-start-problem-online-employment-platforms-are-misali...
3•geox•39m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Texio, reliable Markdown operations for shell scripts and AI agents

https://github.com/Allra-Fintech/texio
1•yuzong•47m ago•0 comments

How the Watch_Dogs Video Game Series Predicted Real World Digital Rights Issues

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/how-watch-dogs-video-game-series-mirrored-and-predicted-rea...
2•xeonmc•48m ago•1 comments

Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill

https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill
2•donk8r•49m ago•0 comments

The agents are coming for the web and the web isn't ready

https://info.varnish-software.com/blog/the-agents-are-coming-for-the-web-and-the-web-isnt-ready
4•perbu•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Custom slash commands, variables and snippets

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/text-expander-autofill-sl/jjeibagdcmgahjglbglpjcjilpaheeco
2•expashaparasha•52m ago•0 comments

South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia state

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/09/14/south-africa-is-at-risk-of-becoming-a...
2•andsoitis•53m ago•0 comments

Surveying GenAI-Based Automation in Printed Circuit Board Design and Test

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17074
1•teleforce•53m ago•0 comments

Create your WordPress.com website by chatting with AI

https://wordpress.com/ai-website-builder/
1•soltanov•54m ago•0 comments

Agentic local development tool for WordPress

https://developer.wordpress.com/studio/
1•soltanov•55m ago•0 comments

Telex Has Been Retired

https://telex.automattic.ai/
1•soltanov•56m ago•0 comments

Field notes from a phone-free future

https://etymology.substack.com/p/field-notes-from-a-phone-free-future
1•inatreecrown2•58m ago•0 comments

Create Bead Art with Beadora

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beadora/id6782424511
1•marylondon•1h ago•0 comments

Designing a TPU and optimizing transformer inference on a $100 FPGA

https://im-afan.github.io/transformer-tpu/
2•andrewkongfan•1h 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?