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Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature

https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
112•WithinReason•2h ago•15 comments

Happy Public Domain Day 2026

https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/01/public-domain-day-2026/
292•apetresc•9h ago•59 comments

Why users cannot create Issues directly

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558
391•xpe•10h ago•136 comments

Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin

https://carette.xyz/posts/going_immutable_macos/
50•weird_trousers•2h ago•29 comments

10 years of personal finances in plain text files

https://sgoel.dev/posts/10-years-of-personal-finances-in-plain-text-files/
3•wrxd•22m ago•0 comments

Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby's growth, Open-Source Software today etc.

https://en.kaigaiiju.ch/episodes/matz2
37•kibitan•6d ago•11 comments

A website to destroy all websites

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/
565•g0xA52A2A•14h ago•292 comments

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)

https://rtfm.co.ua/en/freebsd-home-nas-part-1-configuring-zfs-mirror-raid1/
45•todsacerdoti•4h ago•1 comments

Round the tree, yes, but not round the squirrel

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/01/02/round-and-round/
29•beardyw•3h ago•24 comments

Cameras and Lenses (2020)

https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/
443•sebg•18h ago•52 comments

Contact the ISS

https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html
46•logikblok•5d ago•14 comments

Can Bundler be as fast as uv?

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2025/12/29/can-bundler-be-as-fast-as-uv/
267•ibobev•13h ago•85 comments

Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface

https://github.com/maxpert/marmot
111•zX41ZdbW•9h ago•19 comments

Linux is good now

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-wan...
818•Vinnl•14h ago•641 comments

BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-01/byd-sells-4-6-million-vehicles-in-2025-meets-r...
264•toomuchtodo•19h ago•402 comments

Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust

https://openworkers.com/introducing-openworkers
453•max_lt•20h ago•138 comments

Python numbers every programmer should know

https://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know/
363•WoodenChair•20h ago•148 comments

Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phone
500•AndrewDucker•1d ago•181 comments

2025 Letter

https://danwang.co/2025-letter/
320•Amorymeltzer•20h ago•234 comments

Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt

https://enroll.sh
169•_mig5•1d ago•32 comments

Square Minus Square – A coding agent benchmark

https://aedm.net/blog/square-minus-square-2025-12-22/
7•Topfi•6d ago•1 comments

Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy

https://kyo.iroiro.party/en/posts/100-percent-lisp/
57•todsacerdoti•9h ago•12 comments

50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player

https://lightcapai.medium.com/the-great-return-from-digital-abundance-to-analog-meaning-cfda9e428752
208•ResisBey•19h ago•223 comments

I rebooted my social life

https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might-be-oversharing
435•edent•1d ago•318 comments

Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs

https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
169•teekert•3d ago•36 comments

WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/01/01/
81•ArmageddonIt•13h ago•3 comments

If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app

https://blog.jgc.org/2025/12/if-you-care-about-security-you-might.html
211•jgrahamc•4d ago•120 comments

Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/dells-version-dgx-spark-fixes-pain-points
139•thomasjb•16h ago•71 comments

Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/europe/finland-estonia-undersea-cable-ship-detained-intl
434•wslh•16h ago•462 comments

James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies

https://fordauthority.com/2025/12/ford-engineer-that-designed-gas-tank-indicator-passes-away/
162•NaOH•6d ago•163 comments
Open in hackernews

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.