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Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

https://plasma-bigscreen.org
437•PaulHoule•10h ago•126 comments

Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

456•shannoncc•10h ago•323 comments

UUID package coming to Go standard library

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62026
200•soypat•8h ago•109 comments

QGIS 4.0

https://changelog.qgis.org/en/version/4.0/
54•jonbaer•1h ago•3 comments

this css proves me human

https://will-keleher.com/posts/this-css-makes-me-human/
269•todsacerdoti•12h ago•88 comments

Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/working-and-communicating-with-japanese-engineers
28•zdw•3d ago•11 comments

Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text

https://www.science.org/content/article/galileo-s-handwritten-notes-found-ancient-astronomy-text
134•tzury•1d ago•25 comments

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first

https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code
233•dnw•9h ago•179 comments

Helix: A post-modern text editor

https://helix-editor.com/
150•doener•10h ago•57 comments

Lock Scroll with a Vengeance

https://unsung.aresluna.org/lock-scroll-with-a-vengeance/
13•etothet•3d ago•2 comments

Sarvam 105B, the first competitive Indian open source LLM

https://www.sarvam.ai/blogs/sarvam-30b-105b
48•logicchains•2h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting

https://github.com/moongate-community/moongatev2
257•squidleon•20h ago•141 comments

Querying 3B Vectors

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/02/21/querying-3-billion-vectors/
49•surprisetalk•3d ago•6 comments

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/
16•askl•1h ago•3 comments

Modernizing swapping: virtual swap spaces

https://lwn.net/Articles/1059201/
28•voxadam•1d ago•18 comments

The Longing (1999)

https://www.cluetrain.com/book/longing.html
22•herbertl•3d ago•1 comments

My application programmer instincts failed when debugging assembler

https://landedstar.com/blog/posts/how-my-application-programmer-instincts-failed-when-debugging-a...
11•lifefeed•1d ago•8 comments

Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu

https://www.knifepoint.net/~kat/kb-jj-patchedit.html
27•cassepipe•2d ago•5 comments

What canceled my Go context?

https://rednafi.com/go/context-cancellation-cause/
63•mweibel•3d ago•36 comments

From Fargo to Zebra

https://cendyne.dev/posts/2026-02-27-from-fargo-to-zebra.html
3•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool

https://github.com/c0m4r/kula
57•c0m4r•10h ago•29 comments

Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/2029916364664611242
895•enraged_camel•16h ago•593 comments

Maybe there's a pattern here?

https://dynomight.net/pattern/
128•surprisetalk•2d ago•79 comments

CT Scans of Health Wearables

https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables
219•radeeyate•20h ago•47 comments

Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs

52•sam_palus•16h ago•76 comments

Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale

https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-particle-accelerator-antscan
129•gmays•18h ago•24 comments

C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper

https://consultwithgriff.com/dapper-nvarchar-implicit-conversion-performance-trap
103•PretzelFisch•11h ago•73 comments

Claude AI Helped Bomb Iran. But How Exactly?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-04/iran-strikes-anthropic-claude-ai-helped-us-...
3•helsinkiandrew•25m ago•0 comments

Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team

https://www.anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-security
569•todsacerdoti•22h ago•154 comments

A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs

https://github.com/elder-plinius/OBLITERATUS
171•mvdwoord•20h ago•78 comments
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

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

Comments

throwawaymaths•9mo 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•9mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•9mo 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•9mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•9mo 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.