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Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/flock-wants-a-closely-surveilled-world-with-no-...
268•pseudolus•2h ago•222 comments

I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/
97•xlii•1h ago•42 comments

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/
77•willwhitedc•1h ago•12 comments

Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch

https://buttondown.com/blog/lotus-notes-email
76•maguay•3h ago•37 comments

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

https://ai.meta.com/muse/
560•yks•17h ago•614 comments

DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro

105•nickweb•1h ago•34 comments

Coyote v. Acme (1990)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme
62•ChrisArchitect•2d ago•20 comments

Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Viral Content Editor

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/KuVVqSh-content-systems-builder-editor
1•zman0225•1h ago

Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf
1804•procedurecall•1d ago•747 comments

How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-ai-math-breakthrough-ignited-controversy
142•pseudolus•2h ago•133 comments

Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch

https://mbugert.de/posts/2026-09-09-bedroom-lamp-build/
25•jcklie•3h ago•7 comments

Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue

https://opusfived.dev/
47•matthieu_bl•3h ago•9 comments

Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-trees-muscle-posture-newly-role.html
139•mdp2021•6d ago•35 comments

Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes

https://github.com/ashemag/human-atlas
18•metrofun•1d ago•4 comments

How to build a printer

https://nishantjosh.dev/blogs/how-to-build-a-fking-printer/
385•cat-whisperer•15h ago•84 comments

Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teen-reading-slumps-worst-century-111013754.html
14•pseudolus•43m ago•15 comments

AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/alphagenome-atlas/
577•utiiiD•22h ago•124 comments

Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-determine-how-to-spot-fake-ancient-pottery-...
58•cisc•3d ago•26 comments

A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)

https://note.com/masakazu_urabe/n/n7815f5b64fab?hl=en
75•porridgeraisin•8h ago•19 comments

Smolts: A pedagogical IDE for a teaching language

https://eighty-twenty.org/2026/09/04/smolts
5•tonyg•5d ago•0 comments

How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

https://openai.com/index/codex-quantum-computing-experiments/
98•theanonymousone•5h ago•78 comments

Mercury 2.5

https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2-5
219•Topfi•16h ago•40 comments

Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3Dpc7fqaOcAH
182•paimapi•15h ago•96 comments

DaVinci Resolve 21.1

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20260908-03
418•tosh•23h ago•188 comments

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd
483•domhudson•22h ago•331 comments

On Really Trying (2009)

https://gwern.net/on-really-trying
77•whoami_nr•6h ago•45 comments

“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/09/tweet-and-the-bird-logo-apparently-enter-the-public...
144•progval•7h ago•86 comments

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen38-27b-quantizations-benchmarked/
268•stared•22h ago•128 comments

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
1288•tedsanders•19h ago•1039 comments

Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117237320796901560
404•_alternator_•16h ago•352 comments
Open in hackernews

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.