#prng
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #prng from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #prng
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-27 16:51 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-27 16:51 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-27 16:51 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~42942 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (34) · Polish (2) · Russian (1) · German (1) · Chinese (1) · American English (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.7
Top of the latest posts
Is 42 a "good" random seed? I know I have used it a lot in various stackoverflow posts. But this can indeed have a negative effect on people and *especially* LLMs using the example code as Claus Wilke is arguing here https://blog.genesminds
Hint: if your software, starting with the same initial state and same inputs, produces different output between runs, it's not useful software. It's a PRNG in disguise, and you should be wary of anyone who *likes* it that way. #PRNG #input
As if the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet mess couldn't get worse... Online play (battle stadium) apparently gets seeded with the same PRNG seed. Every match where the first move used has an accuracy stat ≤ 90% will always miss. This was followe
#prng across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #prng straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/prng