frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill.

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
133•layer8•1h ago•113 comments

GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
384•ilreb•6h ago•220 comments

Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd?

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/
48•pngmangi•1h ago•0 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
341•prophittcorey•6h ago•152 comments

Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch

https://phreak.ing/
30•rickcarlino•1h ago•3 comments

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro
53•zdw•3h ago•6 comments

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supe...
359•Zeekaas•10h ago•585 comments

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html
45•speckx•3h ago•5 comments

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

78•vishnukool•6h ago•57 comments

Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195
401•whimblepop•4h ago•217 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
231•djfergus•10h ago•56 comments

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppo
239•scrlk•11h ago•285 comments

Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34

https://news.sky.com/story/breaking-bad-star-rj-mitte-dies-aged-34-13598332
37•austinallegro•55m ago•4 comments

Muse Wonder

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder
484•meetpateltech•6h ago•259 comments

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/
208•gregsadetsky•2d ago•81 comments

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-orange-cats-finally-revealed-after-60-year-search
215•bookofjoe•2d ago•170 comments

Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser

https://brickbrag.com/
12•neuling•2h ago•6 comments

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

https://taylor.town/kk-ai-2026
110•surprisetalk•7h ago•35 comments

Solar panels that plug into your wall

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/balcony-plug-in-solar-panels-renewable-energy
81•speckx•8h ago•71 comments

Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly

https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp
257•deadxwarrior•16h ago•138 comments

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/
288•gumby•5h ago•243 comments

Thinking will become a hobby

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008
195•pranitha_m•6h ago•260 comments

Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers

https://jacobin.com/2026/10/books-publishing-reading-mass-market-paperback
89•PaulHoule•4h ago•63 comments

Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p

https://github.com/SaarthurR/atticus-mac
49•SaarthRanka•22h ago•5 comments

America's Longest Highway Tunnel (2025)

https://www.thetravel.com/americas-longest-highway-tunnel-not-for-faint-of-heart/
6•NaOH•1d ago•4 comments

'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-tool-rich-hickey-kjl8e
150•svieira•5h ago•75 comments

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html
233•lukaslalinsky•18h ago•82 comments

My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/10/my-reddit-ama-on-the-law-of-web-scraping.htm
73•speckx•5h ago•11 comments

No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C

https://sebsite.pw/w/20261009-strtod.html
62•signa11•2d ago•80 comments

QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387
360•bwnkl•11h ago•391 comments
Open in hackernews

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.