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libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/
200•spyc•5h ago•23 comments

After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted

https://www.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2026080416131786841
41•mapping365•2h ago•22 comments

Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963
123•tchalla•4h ago•79 comments

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/
183•luispa•6h ago•67 comments

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/
340•riadsila•11h ago•82 comments

IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay

https://mysk.blog/2026/08/04/webkit-proxy-icloud-private-relay-ip-leak/
61•lapcat•4h ago•8 comments

DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)

https://techascent.com/blog/just-ducking-around.html
68•sourdecor•6h ago•9 comments

Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04221
45•teleforce•4h ago•27 comments

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/
481•automatoney•13h ago•90 comments

Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone

https://deepgrove.ai/maple-preview
78•edwardbzhang•8h ago•22 comments

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-than...
1109•jdcampolargo•9h ago•59 comments

Bugtraq Is Back

https://lists.securityfocus.com/hyperkitty/list/bugtraq@securityfocus.com/thread/CHKLXLA7SJEWLDFH...
30•bashtoni•4h ago•6 comments

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/
13•tosh•3d ago•5 comments

AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

https://www.africanews.com/2026/08/04/ai-fuels-more-than-half-of-cybercrime-in-africa-as-digital-...
167•bookofjoe•6h ago•120 comments

Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power

https://sharedobject.blog/posts/vp8-combinatorial-logic/
48•firer•2d ago•9 comments

Flowise Is Shutting Down

https://flowiseai.com/sunset
26•llmgraph•4h ago•15 comments

Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable

https://rioterm.com/blog/2026/07/27/rio-vt-and-librio
3•vinhnx•1w ago•0 comments

We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

https://seg6.space/posts/center-div/
83•seg6•6h ago•72 comments

Waymo in Dallas

https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/
270•xnx•9h ago•426 comments

I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel

https://twitter.com/gwern/status/2084739205071343837
216•mattsterett•7h ago•135 comments

Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100

https://www.godox.com/product-e/C100.html
18•routeroff•1d ago•10 comments

From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017)

http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-lead-and-black-art.html
8•EndXA•3d ago•2 comments

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
362•pmg101•1d ago•386 comments

Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust

https://github.com/brian-armstrong/fec
33•brian-armstrong•5h ago•2 comments

Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/dont-stop-early-case-folding-source-cod...
57•sbulaev•4d ago•19 comments

Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truemetrics/jobs/bIQQ7tP-founding-gtm-lead
1•truemetricsIngo•11h ago

Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml
222•depr•8h ago•111 comments

When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16763
86•doppp•12h ago•89 comments

Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s

https://sonar21.com/the-galling-gallium-chokehold-why-the-us-cannot-produce-precision-missiles-an...
6•SanjayMehta•3h ago•0 comments

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/
602•surprisetalk•16h ago•640 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.