#Random

Bake something sweet, choose some cozy favorites, and pick a few random things to discover whether you're more like Lara Jean, Peter, Kitty, or Margot!

Math.random() is a PRNG, not a CSPRNG. An attacker who observes a few outputs can predict every future call. I found this exact pattern generating API keys in a 44K-star open-source codebase. Here is why it matters and the ESLint rule that catches it.

AWS has revealed RNG, a new random-graph-based data center network that delivers 33% higher throughput, cuts network power consumption by 40%, uses 69% fewer devices, and is already the default architecture for most AWS workloads.

UUIDs are everywhere now. Databases, APIs, distributed systems, event streams, authentication...

ETH Zurich researchers say they have generated certified "perfect randomness" for the first time by using a quantum Bell-test setup with two entangled superconducting chips connected by a 30-meter cooled link.…

A nonce is a "number used once." The whole security of several widely deployed encryption and...

The tech giant says a breakthrough in data center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure.

Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 1 ![tech news cover](https://0.gravatar.com/avatar/3a42ddfd2e617c6fa03c80889690163b8b57f6d253bfbc73cfa04a110c13f...

There are a few things about /dev/urandom and /dev/random that are repeated again and again. Still they are false.

From Buzzfeed Latest: You're A Cerified Geography Expert If Can Identify At Least 15/20 Of The Countries In This Borders Quiz

From Dev.to - opensource: I Asked 6 AIs to Pick a Random Number. Their Training Data Confessed Everything.

From Buzzfeed Latest: Nobody Has Ever Gotten A Perfect Score On This Quiz And You Won't Either

From Dev Community: I Built Compressly Because Most Image Conversion Tools Were Honestly Frustrating

Your B-tree indexes hate UUID v4. They've hated it for years. You probably haven't noticed because...

From Buzzfeed Latest: I Would Bet My Bottom Dollar That I KNOW Your Favorite Holiday Based On Your Cake Choices

The quest for true randomness has roots in cryptography and is a rabbit hole that gets surprisingly deep with alarmingly rapidity. Still, the generation of random-enough numbers is a popular hacker…

If you've worked with UUIDs, you've almost certainly used UUID v4 — the random, hexadecimal string...

From Dev RSS Feed: I Built a Random Word Generator… Then Realized How Often People Get Stuck

The classic donut.c torus rendered in real-time ASCII art with sin/cos math, z-buffer depth, and luminance mapping — with a glitch mode that scrambles into chaos when you click it.