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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-perform...
1113•interpol_p•19h ago•1068 comments

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0
72•zoenolan•4d ago•20 comments

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuo...
375•sunnynagra•13h ago•186 comments

Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm
31•jnord•3h ago•8 comments

Queryable Executables

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables
156•rguiscard•8h ago•29 comments

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia
462•bmulholland•18h ago•295 comments

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/
764•interpol_p•19h ago•502 comments

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590
233•raattgift•15h ago•173 comments

Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others

https://github.com/runetes/maiao
76•zdw•9h ago•43 comments

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-n...
489•runako•19h ago•300 comments

When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python

https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability
113•rbanffy•11h ago•46 comments

Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21503
48•gdad•5h ago•16 comments

Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia

https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-influence-campaign-russia/
16•sam_lowry_•54m ago•2 comments

C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html
144•Retr0id•12h ago•82 comments

More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/more-half-adults-us-say-they-lack-basic-statistical-under...
76•giuliomagnifico•2h ago•106 comments

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442
886•Banditoz•15h ago•728 comments

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/building-a-backyard-office-the-build-and-cost-breakdown
335•surprisetalk•18h ago•211 comments

I miss the old Claude Code

https://alexkras.com/focus-is-the-main-feature-why-i-miss-the-old-claude-code/
20•akras14•1h ago•0 comments

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bomb-fishing-coral-reefs
312•speckx•17h ago•160 comments

Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it

https://blog.master.dev/tooltips-need-a-delay-and-then-they-need-to-skip-it/
170•ibobev•15h ago•45 comments

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/
161•speckx•15h ago•72 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/
346•Hbruz0•20h ago•121 comments

Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM

https://github.com/swimmingbrain/texbrain
91•swimmingbrain•10h ago•19 comments

Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI

https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch
134•petruspennanen•17h ago•37 comments

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb
150•smiths1999•15h ago•38 comments

Dolly Parton has died

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead
1437•helsinkiandrew•14h ago•220 comments

How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer

https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/how-credit-card-rewards-became-multibillion-dollar-...
167•conbrian•20h ago•306 comments

My Friend Aaron

https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron
544•sarreph•15h ago•147 comments

A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation

https://zakpodmore.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-federal-lift-ticket
61•CGMthrowaway•13h ago•11 comments

Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1
361•yboris•14h ago•92 comments
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Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•1y ago

Comments

throwawaymaths•1y ago
Curious about base 2. Obviously if you hit a 0 it's immediately not prime, but maybe adjust the rules so:

- you drill through as many 0's on the right.

- you finish on 1.

3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17 are all right truncatable, 19 is the first non-truncatable prime in this scheme.

nh23423fefe•1y ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•1y ago
I think in the base2 reformulation I propose we do not know for certain if the list of numbers terminates, as all Fermat primes are in the set and we don't know if there are infinitely many Fermat primes.

For base-10 and the original rules the set is provably closed.

"Drilling through zeros" makes the branching unbounded.

jinwoo68•1y ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•1y ago
Just in case any else is wondering: there are only 83 right-truncatable primes (RTP) and that is it. There's two constraints that let you see this "immediately":

1. An RTP must start with {2,3,5,7,9}; and,

2. An RTP must end with {1,3,7,9}.

So, let's take the largest RTP (73939133) and try to "extend" it: there are only four possible extensions: 73939133[1], 73939133[3], 73939133[7], 73939133[9]. None of these are prime. This holds for the other 8-digit RTPs. Therefore, there is no extension to a 9-or-longer RTP. Thus, the list is exhaustive.