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OpenAI Kicks Off IPO Process in Test of Investor Appetite for Top AI Labs

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-kicks-off-ipo-process-in-test-of-investor-appetite-for-top-ai-...
1•toephu2•1m ago•0 comments

Apple Watch for Your Kids

https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-for-your-kids/
1•antfarm•1m ago•0 comments

Pythagora-Io/GPT-Pilot Compromised Credential Stealer Blocked by Python Linter

https://github.com/Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot/issues/1182
1•kurmiashish•5m ago•1 comments

MoE expert co-activations: Reordering inputs yields easy throughput gains

https://blog.doubleword.ai/moe-expert-coactivations
1•kkm•6m ago•0 comments

AI and the Redmonk Language Rankings

https://briandouglas.ie/redmonk-language-rankings-2026/
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SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps

https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/swiftui_only_makes_it_easy_to_develop_bad_apps
1•robenkleene•7m ago•0 comments

How PICO-8 unlocked Frédéric Souchu's dreams

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We brought Arc-style profile switching to Dia

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OpenAI Submits S-1 Draft to SEC

https://openai.com/index/openai-submits-confidential-s-1/
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The sample efficiency black hole

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Mathematics Is Out There

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3•cainxinth•14m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Files S-1

https://twitter.com/openainewsroom/status/2064094175541461220
6•davidbarker•18m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Confidentially Files for IPO

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/08/openai-confidentially-files-for-ipo-prepping-wall-street-for-ai-d...
12•rvz•18m ago•0 comments

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https://phys.org/news/2026-05-scientists-lasers-age-sharks.html
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1•turtlegrids•19m ago•0 comments

Understanding Type Theory Eliminators

https://zenodo.org/records/20600315
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Pozzo: A Fast Lucky Number Checker

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All WWDC 2026 session videos

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Discarding AI-Generated Code

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Good Internet magazine on indefinite hiatus

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1•Bender•36m ago•0 comments

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2•Bender•37m ago•0 comments

Federal judge rules Trump's $100k fee for H-1B visas unlawful

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/trump-h-1b-visa-fee-invalidated
14•xpl•37m 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?