As Michael noted, the conjectured bound for the probability a random $(0,1)$ matrix is singular is conjectured to be $(1+o(1)) n^2 2^{-n} $. This corresponds to the natural lower bound coming from the observation that if a matrix has two equal rows or columns it is automatically singular. The best bound currently known for this problem is $(\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} + o(1) )^n$, and is due to [Bourgain, Vu, and Wood][1]. Corollary 3.3 in their paper also gives a bound of $(\frac{1}{\sqrt{q}}+o(1))^n$ in the case where entries are uniformly chosen from $\{0, 1, \dots, q-1\}$ (here the conjectured bound would be around $n^2 q^{-n})$ Even showing that the determinant is almost surely non-zero is not easy (this was first proven by Komlos in 1967, and the reference is given in Michael's Sloane link). [1]: http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0461