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Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

https://rohanbansal.com/qorl
340•polyphilz•4h ago•66 comments

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338
102•matt_d•2h ago•9 comments

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/
95•nonmaskable•12h ago•37 comments

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/
188•krackers•3h ago•51 comments

Backups Aren't Simple

https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html
30•afilipovski•3h ago•9 comments

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

https://openspec.dev/
17•etoxin•31m ago•1 comments

Small programming tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/
352•signa11•7h ago•173 comments

The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve
43•johnjwang•1d ago•3 comments

Reversing Factorio's RNG

https://gegell.github.io/posts/factorio-rng/
110•jheitmann•4d ago•11 comments

Performance Improvements in .NET 11

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-11/
121•soheilpro•1d ago•22 comments

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/aws-says-it-cant-restore-some-data-from-mideast-facilities-...
168•berkeleyjunk•1d ago•139 comments

Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/canda-eu-membership-australia-us-trade-b3050...
28•doener•41m ago•2 comments

Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14845
51•matt_d•4h ago•6 comments

Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

https://github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike
47•rochansinha•4h ago•7 comments

Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries

https://untranslatedjp.substack.com/p/japans-book-scene-is-quietly-moving
70•herbertl•4d ago•26 comments

How good are frontier models at physics?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13009
58•qt31415926•4h ago•25 comments

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme
2044•arnemunthekaas•1d ago•236 comments

Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/
516•vertigoruntime•15h ago•182 comments

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858
177•bananaflag•9h ago•49 comments

Anatomy of a Texture

https://agentlien.github.io/texture/
69•Agentlien•9h ago•12 comments

Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

https://evanhahn.com/posts/2026-09-13-programmers-dislike-reduce/
71•vinhnx•2d ago•123 comments

WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL

https://clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-walshadow
33•spathak•5d ago•5 comments

Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/jit-ddt
24•schopra909•6h ago•1 comments

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/
438•driverdan•10h ago•208 comments

Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022)

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized%20and%20performance%20portable%20Quicksort.html
160•mococa•5h ago•25 comments

Why Does the Universe Expand?

https://cosmicave.org/2026/09/15/why-does-the-universe-expand/
10•the__alchemist•3h ago•1 comments

The DeepMind Institute

https://institute.deepmind.com/
130•vertigoruntime•9h ago•43 comments

I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app

https://oldmanrahul.com/2026/09/14/hush/
10•oldmanrahul•10h ago•0 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/eturrAR-forward-deployed-engineer
1•asontha•11h ago

Destroy After Reading: photocopiers,cheap paper and DIY gave metal it's look

https://www.truegrittexturesupply.com/blogs/news/destroy-after-reading
5•pigeons•2d ago•1 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.