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A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury

https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
228•unignorant•10h ago•97 comments

This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/
340•richardboegli•13h ago•76 comments

Dav2d

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d
484•dabinat•17h ago•134 comments

Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK

https://osec.io/blog/2026-04-30-unverified-evaluations-dusk-plonk/
24•deut-erium•2d ago•2 comments

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS

https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/
303•valzevul•13h ago•72 comments

Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML

https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing
125•brendanmc6•4h ago•120 comments

Do_not_track

https://donottrack.sh/
340•RubyGuy•17h ago•109 comments

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
194•andsoitis•14h ago•92 comments

Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/05/01/windows-quality-update-progress-weve-made-si...
44•jovial_cavalier•1d ago•73 comments

Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service

https://www.sourcefeed.app/
24•bjhess•4d ago•7 comments

Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels

https://www.newsonjapan.com/article/149075.php
44•mikhael•9h ago•13 comments

Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/news/inventions-battery-reuse-and-recycling-increase-more-seve...
204•JeanKage•3d ago•18 comments

Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/04/brain-scans-individual-versus-group.html
5•hhs•2d ago•0 comments

VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
1214•indrora•14h ago•626 comments

A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm

https://lwn.net/Articles/1066156/
83•signa11•2d ago•22 comments

The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

https://www.mendral.com/blog/agent-harness-belongs-outside-sandbox
105•shad42•13h ago•82 comments

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/
109•dragandj•13h ago•11 comments

Because it doesn't have to

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/04/because-it-doesnt-have-to.html
52•zdw•3d ago•13 comments

Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters

https://hnup.date/hn-sota
112•yunusabd•13h ago•59 comments

Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)

https://retrocoding.net/windows-api-is-successful-cross-platform-api
76•phendrenad2•7h ago•79 comments

San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names

https://j-nelson.net/san-francisco-streets-with-similar-names/
27•SeenNotHeard•2d ago•39 comments

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/
249•moosia•1d ago•93 comments

A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games

https://easel.games/blog/2026-rollback-physics
89•BSTRhino•1d ago•31 comments

Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html
157•doener•9h ago•120 comments

AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share

https://fshot.org/techzone/the-algorithm-knows.php
31•victorkulla•8h ago•2 comments

Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge

https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-...
289•bazlightyear•6h ago•154 comments

Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/pymanager-261/
20•ankitg12•3h ago•17 comments

The USB Situation

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-usb-situation/
130•herbertl•3d ago•156 comments

When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?

https://unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-the-next-phase-of-evolution/
34•pentestercrab•2d ago•216 comments

Little magazines are back

https://wsjfreeexpression.substack.com/p/little-magazines-are-back
94•prismatic•2d ago•33 comments
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•11mo ago

Comments

throwawaymaths•11mo 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•11mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•11mo 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•11mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•11mo 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.