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Xorshift Generators

16 pointsby tobrtoday at 12:47 PM8 commentsview on HN

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AlanZucconitoday at 4:20 PM

I'm really curious... How did you manage to post this link before I did?

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delducatoday at 2:50 PM

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...

saithoundtoday at 3:45 PM

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

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