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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
541•cbeuw•12h ago•343 comments

List animals until failure

https://rose.systems/animalist/
75•l1n•4h ago•49 comments

Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bioelectricity-to-coordinate-and-make-group-decisions-20...
27•marojejian•5h ago•4 comments

pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/DataDog/pg_tracing
23•tanelpoder•3d ago•1 comments

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/generative-ai-and-wikipedia-editing-what-we-learned-in-2025/
113•ColinWright•8h ago•51 comments

In praise of –dry-run

https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/
105•ingve•9h ago•67 comments

Opentrees.org (2024)

https://opentrees.org/#pos=1/-37.8/145
44•surprisetalk•4d ago•4 comments

Sparse File LRU Cache

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/01/sparse-file-lru-cache.html
11•paladin314159•4h ago•0 comments

Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smallpox-eradication-champion-william-foege-dies-at-89/
173•CrossVR•3d ago•35 comments

Outsourcing thinking

https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260130-outsourcing-thinking/index.html
112•todsacerdoti•8h ago•93 comments

Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.

https://github.com/zupat/related_post_gen
76•behnamoh•9h ago•34 comments

Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

https://lab174.com/blog/202601-nonograms/
6•merelysounds•3d ago•2 comments

Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21473
67•matt_d•9h ago•14 comments

The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login-logout_1305_mickens.pdf
105•tosh•9h ago•20 comments

Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine

https://crl.io/ds-game-engine/
121•Antibabelic•11h ago•30 comments

Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images

https://github.com/rtvkiz/minimal
82•ritvikarya98•10h ago•24 comments

Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

https://www.moltbook.com/
173•schlichtm•3d ago•818 comments

Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media

https://yle.fi/a/74-20207494
558•Teever•12h ago•409 comments

Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/350902407346003-apple-1-computer-prototype-board-0-...
43•qingcharles•3h ago•21 comments

When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?

https://webkit.org/blog/17758/when-will-css-grid-lanes-arrive-how-long-until-we-can-use-it/
13•feross•6h ago•0 comments

Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/inside-nvidias-10-year-effort-to-make-the-shield-tv-the-m...
126•qmr•14h ago•104 comments

Wikipedia: Sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox
67•zaptrem•1d ago•19 comments

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]

https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf
152•pieterr•13h ago•112 comments

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/ZunnO6k-ai-agent-engineer
1•OBrien_1107•8h ago

Ferrari vs. Markets

https://ferrari-imports.enigmatechnologies.dev/
49•merinid•2d ago•26 comments

Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

https://nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-swift-is-the-more-convenient-rust
256•behnamoh•7h ago•236 comments

EV-1 for Lease (1996)

https://www.loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=96-P13-00047#feature4
10•1970-01-01•2d ago•1 comments

Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland

https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell
52•doener•10h ago•21 comments

CPython Internals Explained

https://github.com/zpoint/CPython-Internals
184•yufiz•4d ago•43 comments

Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2026-January/118080.html
149•csmantle•19h ago•83 comments
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•8mo ago

Comments

throwawaymaths•8mo 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•8mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•8mo 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•8mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•8mo 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.