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Beware Management Consultants

https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/beware-management-consultants/
382•KolmogorovComp•3h ago•81 comments

Claude Code Teaching macOS to Natively Print to the HP Laser 1008a

https://cdn.kuber.studio/chat/hp-laser-1008a-driver
72•amrrs•1h ago•41 comments

The Amazon tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/
792•herbertl•9h ago•483 comments

Being ambitious and being a dad

https://nicholascharriere.com/blog/being-ambitious-and-being-a-dad/
98•nichochar•2d ago•43 comments

A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly
21•phoenix120•55m ago•5 comments

Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust

https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec
182•fittingopposite•4h ago•23 comments

Companies promote incompetent employees to management tolimit damage they can do

https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/dilbert-principle/
38•behnamoh•1h ago•31 comments

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/
371•otherayden•10h ago•57 comments

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/
329•jp_sc•9h ago•217 comments

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

https://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting
412•tomasreimers•1d ago•324 comments

2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/07/colossal-2500-year-old-sculpture-discovered-turkey-une...
53•speckx•5d ago•18 comments

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/
490•flaburgan•14h ago•253 comments

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-climb-500-percent-in-12-months-up-to...
411•haunter•1d ago•323 comments

How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

https://www.ikea.com/se/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-b643-545a3948dc...
180•NaOH•4h ago•121 comments

A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux

https://www.xda-developers.com/25-year-old-brazilian-video-patent-expired-legal-headache-linux/
43•theanonymousone•3d ago•7 comments

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/
93•_djo_•5h ago•45 comments

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/
55•j4mie•4h ago•27 comments

Evolve: An incremental game about evolving a civilization

https://pmotschmann.github.io/Evolve/
59•frozenseven•3d ago•21 comments

Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map

https://a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth/map
28•num42•3d ago•7 comments

Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)

https://opensource.posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/polars/
150•jeroenjanssens•9h ago•32 comments

Find Chicago Parking Cops

https://www.secondcitycitation.com
11•zayfai•1h ago•9 comments

Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI

https://machine0.io
49•bwm•6h ago•33 comments

We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/weve-flown-a-radiation-blocking-vest-to-the-moon-and-back...
72•rbanffy•4d ago•34 comments

fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.

https://fx.sh
10•handfuloflight•45m ago•2 comments

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon
215•andrewjanke•6d ago•60 comments

Splitting a Git Commit

https://blog.gnoack.org/post/git-history-split
115•signa11•3d ago•56 comments

Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-...
644•karakoram•1d ago•739 comments

Norway Should Buy OpenAI

https://www.onethousandmeans.com/p/norway-should-buy-openai
179•alexeigannon•3h ago•204 comments

Show HN: Openleetcode – local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo

https://github.com/therepanic/openleetcode
50•therepanic•7h ago•14 comments

California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

https://grist.org/transportation/californias-new-tire-efficiency-rules-could-save-drivers-1b-a-year/
132•littlexsparkee•19h ago•189 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.