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Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
754•sfkgtbor•10h ago•378 comments

Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits

https://100r.ca/site/home.html
62•Muhammad523•2d ago•13 comments

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
1023•muglug•7h ago•113 comments

Cleo (Mathematician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician)
76•djoldman•1d ago•6 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...
107•pavel_lishin•2d ago•45 comments

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/
94•gumby•8h ago•36 comments

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

https://bigwords.page/
413•SpeakingOfBrad•12h ago•119 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/
544•joshuawright11•10h ago•281 comments

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome
509•AshleysBrain•17h ago•345 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
46•gumby•10h ago•3 comments

Docker Agent

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent
201•saikatsg•10h ago•91 comments

A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU

https://carette.xyz/posts/minimal_swift_kernel_on_qemu/
46•surprisetalk•1d ago•9 comments

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

https://debasishg.github.io/blog/push-ifs-up-fors-down/
121•speckx•9h ago•60 comments

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
1254•OfficialTurkey•1d ago•1424 comments

A new write and space optimized storage engine for MySQL is here

https://tidesdb.com/articles/tidesdb-now-available-for-mysql/
45•alexpadula•2d ago•18 comments

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

https://ascii.rest/
318•turrini•13h ago•59 comments

How machines learned precision

https://glinscott.github.io/how-machines-learned-precision/
125•glinscott•1d ago•59 comments

Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144
276•nill0•13h ago•169 comments

ENIAC Programmers (2011)

https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/eniac.html
3•adunk•2d ago•0 comments

If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261005-00/?p=112755/
50•ibobev•1d ago•23 comments

Brownian Motion

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2026/04/22/brownian-motion/
48•signa11•1d ago•2 comments

House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26612080.house-15m-underground-tunnels-sale-300k/
182•librasteve•15h ago•169 comments

Wood Tape (2004)

http://gamesbyemail.com/WoodTape/Default.htm
177•NaOH•2d ago•25 comments

Google Playground: Create and play custom games

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/playground-experimental-gaming-platform/
130•acossta•16h ago•210 comments

Anti-patterns in software blogging

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/anti-patterns-software-blogging/
226•ilreb•15h ago•126 comments

Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI

https://www.rswebsols.com/news/meta-and-microsoft-take-steps-to-reduce-employee-usage-of-claude-ai/
310•speckx•9h ago•299 comments

Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees

https://www.classaction.org/news/visa-mastercard-major-banks-facing-new-litigation-over-anticompe...
512•DeepLogin•13h ago•368 comments

Why were Victorian elites so effective?

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-seven-vices-of-highly-effective-victorians/
114•karakoram•13h ago•184 comments

God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser

https://github.com/snuri00/psp-web-recomp
175•sn001•17h ago•95 comments

SynthID Detector

https://synthid.com/
104•ilreb•14h ago•89 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.