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How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
288•rbanffy•4h ago•165 comments

A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]

https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-lik...
368•damaru2•8h ago•117 comments

DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-adv...
48•paimapi•33m ago•22 comments

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
176•nicowaltz•5h ago•73 comments

Without the Hot Air

https://www.withouthotair.com/
85•0sake_rs•4h ago•46 comments

Walking Men

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/09/walking-men.html
32•surprisetalk•1d ago•6 comments

You are no longer invited to dinner

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host
528•barry-cotter•5h ago•465 comments

Using any C++ library in Godot

https://blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html
135•czoido•8h ago•44 comments

Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/science/virus-molluscum-human-gene.html
12•gumby•20h ago•1 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
215•evakhoury•1d ago•32 comments

Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/digital-audio-on-the-zx-spectrums-1-bit-beeper/
32•ibobev•1d ago•12 comments

Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/29/google-ending-chromeos-support-two-years-earl...
95•rbanffy•2h ago•72 comments

Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

https://frostyard.github.io/nsl/
17•bketelsen•2h ago•18 comments

1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7361622
126•colinprince•4h ago•81 comments

Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound

https://jevstiller.pages.dev/posts/the-guarantee/
34•tgluck•4h ago•5 comments

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
32•amortize•1d ago•2 comments

macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

https://www.squareorbits.com/blog/2026/09/macos-golden-gate-is-a-buggy-mess/
287•SquareOrbits•2h ago•207 comments

Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1673071/booted-up-in-1993-this-server-still-runs-but-not-fo...
153•doener•1d ago•75 comments

California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

https://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for...
335•randycupertino•21h ago•807 comments

Georeferencing Chernarus and visiting in real life (2021)

https://longcreek.me/blog/2021/chernarus-irl
16•carlos-menezes•1d ago•4 comments

500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-s...
361•ilamont•5h ago•230 comments

The systems that no one will test

https://blog.christianperone.com/2026/09/the-systems-that-no-one-will-test/
131•perone•1d ago•58 comments

Software occlusion culling in Block Game

https://enikofox.com/posts/software-rendered-occlusion-culling-in-block-game/
78•airhangerf15•2d ago•7 comments

Pirating the Pirates

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates
669•piotrgrabowski•1d ago•340 comments

The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-beatles-permeated-papers-academic-disciplines.html
21•pseudolus•2d ago•14 comments

Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote

https://countingfromzero.blog/2026/04/24/four-chi-26-papers-i-wish-i-wrote/
38•luu•2d ago•10 comments

Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders

https://streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/optimizing-x264-settings-and-per-title-ladders.html
23•dabinat•3d ago•6 comments

Tank Body Problem

http://www.jimsitu.com
170•jimbooonooo•16h ago•38 comments

ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model

https://github.com/Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster
142•nkko•19h ago•31 comments

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/
271•logicallee•22h ago•100 comments
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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.