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I Pitched a Roller Coaster to Disneyland at Age 10 in 1978

https://wordglyph.xyz/one-piece-at-a-time
147•wordglyph•3h ago•50 comments

Software 3.1? – AI Functions

https://blog.mikegchambers.com/posts/software-31-ai-functions/
11•aspittel•30m ago•14 comments

IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/business/irs-meta-corporate-taxes.html
71•mitchbob•3h ago•70 comments

Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware

https://www.withdiode.com/
322•rossant•3d ago•70 comments

Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/goodbye-innerhtml-hello-sethtml-stronger-xss-protection-in-fire...
192•todsacerdoti•3h ago•80 comments

Samsung Upcycle Promise

https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-promised-make-old-phones-useful-galaxy-upcycle/
28•1970-01-01•23h ago•4 comments

λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic

https://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/Labo/Dale.Miller/lProlog/
95•ux266478•3d ago•21 comments

Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smpy/1984-clements.pdf
410•gurjeet•1d ago•227 comments

Tiny QR code achieved using electron microscope technology

https://newatlas.com/technology/smallest-qr-code-bacteria-tu-wien/
18•jonbaer•3d ago•10 comments

We installed a single turnstile to feel secure

https://idiallo.com/blog/installed-single-turnstile-for-security-theater
44•firefoxd•1d ago•9 comments

A distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/object-storage-queue
103•Sirupsen•3d ago•34 comments

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
222•anishathalye•1d ago•71 comments

Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software

https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/
193•robtherobber•4h ago•96 comments

Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter

https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/stripe-2025-update
9•jez•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes

https://github.com/GreatScott/enveil
161•parkaboy•11h ago•99 comments

I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270

https://dork.dev/posts/2026-02-20-ported-coreboot/
251•todsacerdoti•16h ago•55 comments

Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS

https://lyra.horse/x86css/
219•rebane2001•14h ago•69 comments

Extending C with Prolog (1994)

https://www.amzi.com/articles/irq_expert_system.htm
4•Antibabelic•2d ago•1 comments

The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verification
1597•oldnetguy•1d ago•1210 comments

Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates

https://www.guidelabs.ai/post/steerling-8b-base-model-release/
269•adebayoj•15h ago•81 comments

Unsung heroes: Flickr's URLs scheme

https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
193•onli•3d ago•75 comments

Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-blood-boosts-alzheimer-diagnosis-accuracy.html
374•wglb•13h ago•147 comments

Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/02/making-wolfram-tech-available-as-a-foundation-tool-fo...
256•surprisetalk•18h ago•140 comments

Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

https://serverhost.com/blog/firefox-148-launches-with-exciting-ai-kill-switch-feature-and-more-en...
408•shaunpud•10h ago•331 comments

“Car Wash” test with 53 models

https://opper.ai/blog/car-wash-test
326•felix089•20h ago•388 comments

Decimal-Java is a library to convert java.math.BigDecimal to and from IEEE-754r

https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/decimal-java
30•mariuz•7h ago•7 comments

ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives

https://github.com/redruM0381/ATAboy
45•zdw•3d ago•30 comments

Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%

https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/
392•williausrohr•1d ago•573 comments

UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025)

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/380883-unix99-a-unix-like-os-for-the-ti-994a/page/5/#findCommen...
198•marcodiego•20h ago•62 comments

Writing code is cheap now

https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/code-is-cheap/
308•swolpers•23h ago•375 comments
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

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

Comments

throwawaymaths•9mo 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•9mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•9mo 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•9mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•9mo 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.