3 stories tagged random-number-generation, newest first.
235 points by BruceEel | 178 comments
Flat assembler forum thread reporting that RDRAND/RDSEED on AMD (possibly Zen2) CPUs never return 0 at a given size, with a test app for others to try.
335 points by mittermayr | 270 comments
Ask HN post describing an apparent UUID v4 collision from the npm uuid package in a database of about 15,000 records, asking if others have seen this.
338 points by orlp | 124 comments
Blog post recounting a teenage anecdote about exploiting predictable randomness in World of Warcraft Lua add-ons, framed as a computer security story.