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Xorshift Generators (alanzucconi.com)
AlanZucconi 36 minutes ago [-]
I'm really curious... How did you manage to post this link before I did?
tobr 11 minutes ago [-]
I have your feed in my RSS reader! This seemed like something HN would be interested in.
delduca 2 hours ago [-]
I’ve replaced Lua’s random by this. I’ve posted about it here https://nullonerror.org/2025/08/02/replacing-lua-s-math-rand...
saithound 1 hours ago [-]
Ah yes, Xorshift, the RANDU [1] of the 21st century [2].

There is no real use case for better non-CS generators, as explained by adrian_b back in 2021 [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RANDU [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10020 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28886698

moregrist 40 minutes ago [-]
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, exactly, but a use case for better non-CS generators has always been stochastic simulation, especially simulation/sampling approaches that are bound by the number and quality of uniform variates per second.

As someone who has spent considerable time working in these areas, I still appreciate advances.

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