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Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-14 | tags: linux kernel, /dev/urandom, cryptographic randomness

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Myths about /dev/urandom (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-14 | get Entropy Source USB Stick → | tags: dev/urandom, linux kernel, cryptographic randomness

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Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-10 | get IndieWeb Starter Kit → | tags: indie web, blog indexes, random discovery

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How Monero’s proof of work works (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | get Monero Mining Hardware Kit → | tags: monero, proof of work, randomx

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How Monero's proof of work works (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | get Monero Mining Hardware Kit → | tags: monero, proof of work, randomx

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Return to ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ With an Astarion Prequel Book (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-25 | get Baldur's Gate 3 Art Book → | tags: baldur's gate 3, penguin random house, astarian

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Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | get Quantum Random Number Generator → | tags: ibm quantum, qiskit, ecdlp

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Randomization in Controlled Experiments (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-17 | get A/B Testing Software Tool → | tags: controlled experiments, randomization, experimental design

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My Random Forest Was Mostly Learning Time-to-Expiry Noise (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-16 | get Random Forest Feature Importance Tool → | tags: random forest, permutation feature importance, scikit-learn

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Y Combinator-backed Random Labs launches Slate V1, claiming the first 'swarm-native' coding agent (venturebeat.com)

2026-03-13 | get AI Coding Assistant Keyboard → | tags: random labs, slate v1, swarm native

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The real cost of random I/O (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-26 | get Smart Card → | tags: postgres, random_page_cost, flash storage

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What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-18 | get Randomizer → | tags: experimenter, experimenter know, know randomization

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Cosmologically Unique IDs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-18 | get Smart ID → | tags: case, node, nodes

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First PCIe 6.0 SSD enters mass production with 28GB/s speeds, 5.5 million IOPS, and liquid cooling — Micron 9650 Series SSDs support air and liquid cooling (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-14 | by Aaron Klotz | get Micron 9650 → | tags: micron, models, pcie

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Major AI Companies Aren’t Even Pretending to Make Money (futurism.com)

2026-01-31 | by Joe Wilkins | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: billion, brandom, level

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The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-23 | by Natalie Wolchover | get Mathematical Algorithm → | tags: complex, matrices, matrix

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NFL-Related Accounts on Facebook Are Posting Some of the Most Shameless AI Slop Yet (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-19 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: claimed, claimed random, died

18.

Simulating the Ladybug Clock Puzzle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-17 | by Austin Z. Henley | get Ladybug Clock → | tags: answer, numbers, position

19.

Learning to Play Tic-Tac-Toe with Jax (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-04 | get Gamepad → | tags: hparams, network, neural

20.

Avoid UUIDv4 Primary Keys (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-15 | by Andrew Atkinson | get UUID → | tags: index, postgres, random

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Zmij: Faster floating point double-to-string conversion (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-14 | get Double-to-string → | tags: dragonbox, randomdigit, schubfach

22.

Feynman vs. Computer (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-04 | get Quantum Computer → | tags: area, columns, piles

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100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-02 | get SQLite → | tags: account, batch, jdbc

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100000 TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-02 | get SQLite → | tags: account, batch, jdbc

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Schubfach: The smallest floating point double-to-string impleme (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-30 | get Floating Point Double → | tags: decimal, dragonbox, interval

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Spotify updates shuffle to prioritize variety over strict randomness (androidauthority.com)

2025-11-13 | get Podcast → | tags: change, fewer, mode

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Incogni can help you stop unknown scam calls on your iPhone – here’s how (9to5mac.com)

2025-11-08 | by Sponsored Post | get Phone Scam Detector → | tags: broker, incogni, personal information

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AMD confirms Zen 5 chips hit by critical bug - but a fix on the way (zdnet.com)

2025-11-04 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Zen 5 chips → | tags: processors, random, rdseed

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AMD confirms security vulnerability on Zen 5-based CPUs that generates potentially predictable keys — RDSEED fix coming through an AGESA firmware update for desktop chips (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-03 | by Aaron Klotz | get GPU → | tags: chips, issue, random

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Why UUIDs won't protect your secrets (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Amazon Echo Show → | tags: access, attacker, random