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Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU

https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/117128107757895678
38•u1hcw9nx•51m ago•38 comments

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
299•0xedb•5h ago•338 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
208•gregsadetsky•6h ago•26 comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
551•Ariarule•2d ago•254 comments

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-somet...
894•speckx•4h ago•206 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
872•emctech•14h ago•285 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
195•tyre•7h ago•73 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
557•encyclopedism•1d ago•160 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
390•abhisek•11h ago•359 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
214•danielvaughn•6h ago•114 comments

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_per...
327•EwanG•1d ago•206 comments

Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

https://simedw.com/2026/08/20/midi-autocomplete/
492•simedw•13h ago•105 comments

Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour

https://niki.cat/detecting-scraper-bots-through-scroll-behaviour
20•theanonymousone•2h ago•8 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
80•rafaelc•6h ago•132 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
191•mariuz•9h ago•66 comments

Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
186•Bluestein•9h ago•197 comments

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/
55•hurrrr•5h ago•11 comments

Speeding Up the Plush Garbage Collector

https://pointersgonewild.com/2026-08-17-speeding-up-the-plush-garbage-collector/
13•maxime_cb•3d ago•0 comments

Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

https://tidalcycles.org/
53•gjvc•5h ago•8 comments

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

https://jacob.gold/posts/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-small-software-team/
6•mooreslaw•37m ago•4 comments

Stealth Model

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha
9•mtokmak06•1h ago•0 comments

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern
1•HPMOR•8h ago

How to compromise your system with a job interview

https://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview
117•codedge•9h ago•100 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
114•speckx•9h ago•76 comments

Mojo is now open source

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source
338•visheshdembla•2d ago•73 comments

The Citizen Developer

https://www.massdriver.cloud/blogs/the-citizen-developer
40•metal13•3h ago•64 comments

Every Model Cheats

https://dreadnode.io/research/every-model-cheats-prompt-level-mitigation-of-cheating-on-offensive...
79•vga805•11h ago•62 comments

Git at any scale

https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
268•meetpateltech•2d ago•91 comments

DiffusionGemma Technical Report

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146
133•gmays•11h ago•34 comments

Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch

https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2026/08/19/hacking-with-claude-on-a-27-smart-watch.html
82•speckx•10h 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.