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“I just chose words carefully”

https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/
532•zdw•7h ago•131 comments

P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names

https://ruurtjan.com/articles/p99-0ms-autocomplete-for-240-million-domain-names
48•dbalatero•2h ago•22 comments

OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

https://openclaw.ai/blog/openclaw-2-accidentally
27•doppp•2h ago•14 comments

My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures

https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/tiny-cafe/
38•thecsw•2d ago•4 comments

Creepy Crawlies

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
1030•zdw•1d ago•515 comments

It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell

https://blog.vghaisas.com/rube-goldberg-doorbell/
86•vghaisas•2d ago•65 comments

Matrox: Graphics for Professionals

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/matrox
70•BirAdam•6h ago•15 comments

Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT

https://dreamstation.systems/personal/ntppost.html
28•robinpie•3h ago•14 comments

Why OOP Exists

https://mathspp.com/blog/why-oop-exists
6•lumpa•3d ago•4 comments

Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable

https://maurycyz.com/misc/etherfiles/
14•jllyhill•2h ago•0 comments

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
284•metrofun•14h ago•85 comments

Understanding ChatGPT Work

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-work/
116•gmays•4h ago•44 comments

How to build a diffusion language model

https://kuleshov-group.github.io/blog/blog/2026/how-to-build-a-diffusion-language-model/
46•volodia•6h ago•4 comments

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

https://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html
97•pwg•10h ago•16 comments

Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU

https://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/
144•WilsonHarper•2d ago•15 comments

Sort branches by last commit date

https://ryangreenberg.com/til/git-branches-by-commit-date/
106•speckx•5d ago•40 comments

Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

https://github.com/KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb
96•SillyUsername•11h ago•35 comments

Hacking IKEA Furniture

https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
290•greenlightning•18h ago•199 comments

Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)

https://sander.ai/2026/08/24/continuous-dlms.html
74•peter_d_sherman•9h ago•30 comments

Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic

https://relm4.org/
26•Bluestein•4d ago•15 comments

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
144•rzk•14h ago•45 comments

Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable (2011)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/bike-powered-electricity-generators-are-not-sustainable/
41•baud147258•4d ago•33 comments

Startup Anti-Patterns

https://www.itamarnovick.com/intro-to-startup-anti-pattern-series/
125•rzk•14h ago•65 comments

How would you know whether an ancient culture had zero?

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/21/ancient-number-system/
45•ibobev•3d ago•17 comments

Racter (1984)

https://www.ubu.com/historical/racter/index.html
20•buescher•2d ago•6 comments

Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/dads-custom-atari-peripherals
121•rbanffy•3d ago•16 comments

Show HN: Prove your code produced your claims without making reviewers rerun it

https://github.com/27-GROUP/kveritas-go/
4•Mkld27•3h ago•0 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
217•vntok•21h ago•89 comments

Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-08-27
97•tosh•15h ago•65 comments

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
200•joebig•21h ago•58 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.