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Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

https://www.gutenberg.org/
666•JSeiko•7h ago•165 comments

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
607•reasonableklout•3h ago•275 comments

The Zulip Foundation

https://blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/
183•boramalper•5h ago•47 comments

How to Write to SSDs [pdf]

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1469-lee.pdf
24•matt_d•1h ago•2 comments

Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/naturally-occurring-quasicrystals/
30•lukeplato•1d ago•2 comments

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10

https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html
322•happyhardcore•10h ago•146 comments

California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-ca...
253•Lihh27•4h ago•142 comments

The sigmoids won't save you

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-you
124•Tomte•13h ago•154 comments

I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator

https://github.com/gdevic/FPGA-Calculator
74•gdevic•6h ago•24 comments

U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

https://macdailynews.com/2026/05/15/u-s-doj-demands-apple-and-google-unmask-over-100000-users-of-...
331•tencentshill•6h ago•224 comments

Microscale Thermite Reaction

https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/microscale-thermite-reaction
46•krunck•3h ago•17 comments

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

https://explorer.samismith.com/
479•smusamashah•15h ago•111 comments

Spectre Programming Language

https://spectre-docs.pages.dev
3•asdkop•43m ago•0 comments

Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image

https://github.com/neilsonnn/image-blaster
120•MattRogish•8h ago•25 comments

Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/waymo-recalls-3800-robotaxis-after-able-drive-into-standing-water...
144•drob518•5h ago•136 comments

ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline

https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208
203•cmsparks•4h ago•96 comments

O(x)Caml in Space

https://gazagnaire.org/blog/2026-05-14-borealis.html
224•yminsky•13h ago•51 comments

Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake

https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/
110•c1b•1d ago•27 comments

A SQL-Inspired Query Language Designed for Event Sourcing (2025)

https://yoeight.github.io/blog/2025/12/21/EventQL_A_SQL_Inspired_Query_Language_Designed_For_Even...
8•goloroden•2d ago•0 comments

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

https://hightouch.com/careers
1•joshwget•6h ago

The nuclear-physics infrastructure behind PET scans

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/proton-power-for-public-health
32•LAsteNERD•2d ago•2 comments

ASCII by Jason Scott

https://ascii.textfiles.com/
137•bookofjoe•9h ago•21 comments

London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time

https://reclaimthenet.org/london-police-deploy-facial-recognition-at-protest-for-first-time
83•Cider9986•3h ago•60 comments

Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git

https://radicle.dev/
207•KolmogorovComp•11h ago•68 comments

Feedr v0.8.0 – a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal

https://github.com/bahdotsh/feedr
39•bahdotshxx•6h ago•15 comments

The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world (2014)

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30500591
16•ilamont•2d ago•2 comments

Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on Steve Jobs’s years at NeXT Computer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/steve-jobs-next-computer
171•rbanffy•13h ago•144 comments

Building a UMatrix Replacement

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/umatrix.html
35•taviso•5h ago•11 comments

High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf]

https://www.ams.org/government/DonohoPresentation06-28-17Final.pdf
89•nill0•10h ago•33 comments

Zenith: a live local-first fixed viewport planetarium

https://smorgasb.org/zenith-tech/
62•surprisetalk•8h ago•20 comments
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•11mo ago

Comments

throwawaymaths•11mo 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•11mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•11mo 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•11mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•11mo 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.