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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle
472•zdw•11h ago•138 comments

Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/2/1.html
73•zdw•5h ago•14 comments

My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs

https://journal.rafaelcosta.me/my-thousand-dollar-iphone-cant-do-math/
265•rafaelcosta•11h ago•122 comments

Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw
336•jimminyx•9h ago•109 comments

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

https://xikipedia.org
148•rebane2001•8h ago•59 comments

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985)

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA157917.pdf
67•kioku•7h ago•27 comments

Apple I Advertisement (1976)

http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Gallery/Gallery.htm
222•janandonly•14h ago•127 comments

Contracts in Nix

https://sraka.xyz/posts/contracts.html
39•todsacerdoti•1d ago•9 comments

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
308•doener•18h ago•61 comments

Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93v21q5xdvo
56•breve•10h ago•19 comments

Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound's Enslaved Workforce

https://www.wired.com/story/the-red-bull-leaks/
79•smurda•3h ago•12 comments

Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)

https://samuelhewitt.com/blog/2018-06-05-time-machine-style-backups-with-rsync
70•accrual•8h ago•31 comments

Ian's Shoelace Site

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
132•righthand•13h ago•21 comments

Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++

https://solidean.com/blog/2026/building-your-own-u128/
68•PaulHoule•11h ago•31 comments

Two kinds of AI users are emerging

https://martinalderson.com/posts/two-kinds-of-ai-users-are-emerging/
161•martinald•8h ago•136 comments

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

https://cedardb.com/blog/string_compression/
115•jandrewrogers•2d ago•29 comments

Rev Up the Viral Factories

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/rev-viral-factories
5•etiam•2d ago•0 comments

Founding is a snowball

https://blog.bawolf.com/p/founding-is-a-snowball
71•bryantwolf•3d ago•26 comments

MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/29/micropythonos-graphical-operating-system-delivers-android...
208•mikece•3d ago•70 comments

Stop Using Pseudo-Types

https://f2r.github.io/en/stop-using-pseudo-types.html
10•speckx•4d ago•0 comments

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking

https://netbird.io/
673•l1am0•22h ago•256 comments

FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/
226•yannick2k•22h ago•145 comments

Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work

https://research.google/blog/towards-a-science-of-scaling-agent-systems-when-and-why-agent-system...
78•gmays•14h ago•27 comments

A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

https://forkingmad.blog/wordle-crisis/
88•cyanbane•14h ago•94 comments

Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020)

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2020/02/22/In-The-Lab-Magnet-Wire-Soldering.html
17•hasheddan•2d ago•21 comments

Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

https://idiallo.com/blog/teaching-my-neighbor-to-keep-the-volume-down
669•firefoxd•13h ago•313 comments

Amiga Unix (Amix)

https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/home
121•donatj•21h ago•51 comments

Building a Telegram Bot with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects and Grammy

https://flashblaze.xyz/posts/cloudflare-workers-durable-objects-telegram-bot/
16•flashblaze•5h ago•2 comments

Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace/jobs/GOWiDwp-research-engineer-at-clearspace
1•anteloper•13h ago

Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code

77•CzaxTanmay•3d ago•18 comments
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•8mo ago

Comments

throwawaymaths•8mo 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•8mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•8mo 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•8mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•8mo 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.