Hacker News with Generative AI: Randomness

Randomness extractors: making fair coins out of biased coins (bytepawn.com)
In a previous post titled Fair coin from biased coin, I looked at the problem of creating a uniform random coin given access to a biased coin. I looked at multiple approaches, and determined that they're actually all the same in some sense.
Ask HN: Could true randomness come from sparkles from light reflecting the sea? (ycombinator.com)
Integrating Random Functions on a Cluster with Temporal (carlkolon.com)
Finding a random seed that solves a LeetCode problem (2023) (mcognetta.github.io)
Elligator: Elliptic-curve points indistinguishable from uniform random strings (2013) (dl.acm.org)
Making Python Less Random (healeycodes.com)
Exploring Randomness in JavaScript (bennadel.com)
The magic of participatory randomness (cryptography.dog)
Randomness and the Netscape Browser (1996) (eecs.berkeley.edu)
Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness (arstechnica.com)