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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
440•alexharri•6h ago•57 comments

We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

https://labs.ramp.com/rct
119•iamwil•5d ago•45 comments

An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260116-an-elizabethan-mansions-secrets-for-staying-warm
10•Tachyooon•46m ago•3 comments

Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-theres-no-single-best-way-to-store-information-20260116/
11•7777777phil•1h ago•0 comments

The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260113-hello-hiya-aloha-what-our-greetings-reveal
63•1659447091•5h ago•30 comments

The Dilbert Afterlife

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-dilbert-afterlife
275•rendall•1d ago•175 comments

Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter
135•originalankur•7h ago•48 comments

ClickHouse acquires Langfuse

https://langfuse.com/blog/joining-clickhouse
151•tin7in•8h ago•68 comments

East Germany balloon escape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape
616•robertvc•1d ago•260 comments

Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them

https://github.com/PABannier/WSIStreamer
100•el_pa_b•8h ago•31 comments

Escaping the trap of US tech dependence

https://disconnect.blog/escaping-the-trap-of-us-tech-dependence/
36•laurex•1h ago•20 comments

Cloudflare acquires Astro

https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/
900•todotask2•1d ago•378 comments

Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/counterfactual-evaluation/
9•kurinikku•12h ago•0 comments

The recurring dream of replacing developers

https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html
86•glimshe•3h ago•74 comments

US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it

https://electrek.co/2026/01/16/us-electricity-demand-surged-in-2025-solar-handled-61-percent/
243•doener•7h ago•220 comments

The Resonant Computing Manifesto

https://resonantcomputing.org/
10•sinak•55m ago•0 comments

Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/italy-investigates-activision-blizzard-for-pushing-in-game-purc...
65•7777777phil•3h ago•22 comments

The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/vastaamo-hack-finland-therapy-notes
98•c420•10h ago•95 comments

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/
650•embedding-shape•1d ago•284 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to assist AI agents to know when a PR is good to go

https://dsifry.github.io/goodtogo/
6•dsifry•7h ago•4 comments

16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise

https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/10/16-best-practices-for-reducing-dependabot-noise.html
10•zdw•5d ago•9 comments

High-Level Is the Goal

https://bvisness.me/high-level/
206•tobr•2d ago•96 comments

An explanation of cheating in Doom2 Deathmatch (1999)

https://www.doom2.net/doom2/cheating.html
5•Lammy•7h ago•1 comments

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability
450•jaas•1d ago•250 comments

Sergei Fedorov's Escape from Soviet Union Helped Save Red Wings (2020)

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2026/01/12/sergei-fedorov-detroit-red-wings-russ...
27•rmason•4d ago•1 comments

PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/patch_tuesday_secure_launch_bug_no_shutdown/
147•smurda•6h ago•159 comments

FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux2-klein-towards-interactive-visual-intelligence
189•GaggiX•17h ago•53 comments

Architecture for Disposable Systems

https://tuananh.net/2026/01/15/architecture-for-disposable-systems/
42•tuananh•6h ago•24 comments

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

https://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputs
326•vitaelabitur•2d ago•54 comments

Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC

https://neodyme.io/en/blog/drone_hacking_part_1/
116•tripdout•15h ago•22 comments
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Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•7mo ago

Comments

throwawaymaths•7mo 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•7mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•7mo 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•7mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•7mo 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.