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355•lukehandcool•2h ago•76 comments

US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-08/us-suspends-visa-program-for-tech-firms-includ...
281•alephnerd•1h ago•316 comments

Beauty in DVD Menus

https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus
144•speckx•3h ago•94 comments

“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117395269325940185
531•ent101•11h ago•534 comments

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/
176•benbreen•2d ago•56 comments

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologists-are-reconstructing-the-invisible-tec...
25•Hooke•19h ago•5 comments

Orkut.com

https://orkut.com/
45•andreynering•2h ago•31 comments

4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/10/4-hour-battery-storage-is-cheaper-to-install-than-g...
49•01-_-•56m ago•18 comments

Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization

https://github.com/SamsungLabs/LittleBit
48•brainless•3h ago•6 comments

Telnet BBS Guide

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
70•kmstout•4h ago•26 comments

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
996•sfkgtbor•22h ago•471 comments

I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities

https://quesma.com/blog/invisible-cities-one-shot/
231•stared•5h ago•127 comments

The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished

https://shahidhussain.com/writing/search-for-salvage/
297•shahidhussain•3d ago•108 comments

Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
7•AnneWodell•40m ago•2 comments

OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090
120•sashank_1509•9h ago•427 comments

2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking

https://interop-rank.fxdx.dev/
36•jaffathecake•3h ago•6 comments

Time Travel in Braid (2015)

https://qntm.org/braid
70•Ariarule•3d ago•26 comments

Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms

https://blog.pkh.me/p/49-float-and-integer-arithmetic-follow-two-different-paradigms.html
40•ibobev•3d ago•8 comments

Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits

https://100r.ca/site/home.html
334•Muhammad523•2d ago•139 comments

CIA Conspired with the Right on the Eve of Mexico's '68 Massacre

https://mexicosolidarity.com/cia-right-68-massacre/
28•robtherobber•3h ago•1 comments

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
2021•muglug•19h ago•234 comments

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-did-rosalind-franklin-miss-helix-her-iconic-dna-image...
274•pavel_lishin•2d ago•93 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/
725•joshuawright11•22h ago•427 comments

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/
238•gumby•20h ago•134 comments

Cleo (Mathematician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician)
231•djoldman•1d ago•48 comments

The Mathocalypse

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10169
341•6bitquant•21h ago•355 comments

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

https://bigwords.page/
635•SpeakingOfBrad•1d ago•148 comments

VECOS – A windows-like operating system for the Vectrex for the UVMC2 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ranfp_vz30
43•CharlesW•1d ago•11 comments

Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/08/wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2026
116•sonabinu•5h ago•23 comments

In Vienna and Beijing, the first (thorium) nuclear clocks begin to tick

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/first-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229.html
150•gumby•23h ago•45 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.