#randomnumbergenerator — Public Fediverse posts

🔥 Breaking News: Someone found a way to turn cryptographic complexity into a dazzlingly impractical random number generator! 🤯 Dive into this mind-bending maze of #LWE samples, where every step is a new opportunity to get utterly lost. 🎲💥 Perfect for anyone who thinks regular RNGs are just too mainstream! 🥳
https://blog.s20n.dev/posts/lwe-rng/ #BreakingNews #Cryptography #RandomNumberGenerator #ImpracticalTech #HackerNews #ngated

Very nice:

"Where Did <random> Go Wrong?", Martin Hořeňovský, CPP Prague, June 2024 [PDF] (https://codingnest.com/files/What%20Went%20Wrong%20With%20_random__.pdf)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKk6J3CgE80

Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/l8y8gg/where_did_random_go_wrong

#Random #CPP #STL #Programming #API #RandomNumberGenerator #RNG #Ergonomics #Math

Open-Source Random Numbers https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/open-source-random-numbers/ #randomnumbergenerator #avalanchebreakdown #electronavalance #avalanchenoise #randomnumber #opensource #randomness #zenerdiode #hardware #entropy #noise #rng

How bad are human-generated random numbers really (One Time Pad)?

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/103898/how-bad-are-human-generated-random-numbers-really-one-time-pad

#randomnumbergenerator #randomness #onetimepad

Roll the Radioactive Dice for Truly Random D&D Play - When you have a bunch of people gathered around a table for a “Dungeons & Drag... - https://hackaday.com/2022/11/02/roll-the-radioactive-dice-for-truly-random-dd-play/ #randomnumbergenerator #radioactivity #pseudorandom #mischacks #autunite #uranium #geiger #dice #rng

Yes We Have Random Bananas - If you ask a normal person to pick a random number, they’ll usually just blurt out... - https://hackaday.com/2022/06/12/yes-we-have-random-bananas/ #randomnumbergenerator #softwaredevelopment #softwarehacks #randomnumber #radioactive #banana

Dice Rolls From the Beginning of Time - Generating random numbers might seem like a trivial task, that is until the number... - https://hackaday.com/2022/01/05/dice-rolls-from-the-beginning-of-time/ #randomnumbergenerator #nixietube #science #prng #trng

Flipping a Coin 10,000 Times With A Dedicated Machine - Flipping a coin is often the initial example used to help teach probability and statistics to math... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/07/21/flipping-a-coin-10000-times-with-a-dedicated-machine/ #randomnumbergenerator #coinmechanism #mischacks #coinflip #coin

Random Numbers From Outer Space - Need a random number? Sure, you could just roll a die, but if you do, you might invite laughter from... more: https://hackaday.com/2020/01/20/random-numbers-from-outer-space/ #randomnumbergenerator #decadecounter #classichacks #randomnumber #geigertube #nixie #muon