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Gemini 4 Argon

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/
444•bradleyg223•55m ago•218 comments

EDG C++ front-end goes public

https://edgcpp.org/#transition
67•iandinwoodie•1h ago•23 comments

Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain's Inner Workings

https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/
54•ibobev•1h ago•11 comments

Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude
92•anerli•3h ago•42 comments

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

https://www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions-firecracker-microvms/
58•jbott•2h ago•19 comments

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal
178•rbanffy•6h ago•68 comments

Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields

https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/halfspace/
23•luu•1h ago•2 comments

You said no MCP

https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/
549•yarapavan•11h ago•318 comments

Gitea 28.0.0 Is Released

https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/
7•porridgeraisin•27m ago•0 comments

I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records

https://blog.faav.net/how-i-couldve-accessed-17-trillion-microsoft-records
205•luispa•2d ago•96 comments

Commit description as a thinking tool

https://yedhu.me/posts/commit-description-as-a-thinking-tool/
90•yedhukrishnan•3h ago•51 comments

The last time my family was replaced by technology

https://manuel.darcemont.fr/posts/the-last-time-my-family-was-replaced-by-technology/
137•megalomanu•7h ago•316 comments

What TLA+ can and can't check

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/what-tla-can-and-cant-check/
102•b-man•7h ago•22 comments

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bild-ai/jobs/dAbC3Gd-founding-product-engineer
1•rooppal•3h ago

Dear Software Makers

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/dear-software-makers/
9•speckx•1h ago•0 comments

Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.71603
48•croes•5h ago•30 comments

SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

https://alphapixeldev.com/sdf-vs-msdf-vs-slug-vs-rive-gpu-text-rendering/
111•ibobev•7h ago•46 comments

Claude Says

https://ohhfishal.net/Posts/claude
50•speckx•3h ago•16 comments

Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2026/september/carnegie-mellon-university-announces-his...
18•Guyadou•2h ago•16 comments

SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987

https://sdf.org/
64•kmstout•6h ago•11 comments

America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"

https://america.gov/chat
65•thoughtfullyso•1h ago•19 comments

LinkedIn Larpmaxxing

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/linkedin-larpmaxxing/
114•BurnerBurner•16h ago•128 comments

Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A)

https://github.com/mogrinz/AMT630A
58•mogrinz•1d ago•22 comments

Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification

https://cairnc.github.io/posts/understanding-the-dual-polytope/
6•OlympicMarmoto•1d ago•1 comments

Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot

https://projecthub.arduino.cc/syntheticaidata/jbr-001-a-desktop-companion-robot-powered-by-arduin...
116•gvuksic•1d ago•28 comments

Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes

https://ledge.sh
67•dancablam•21h ago•36 comments

Solving Factorio Quality

https://exyr.org/2026/solving-factorio-quality/
244•laurenth•1d ago•93 comments

Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics

https://ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com/p/burning-man-death-rates-a-short-lesson
75•viraj_shah•2d ago•92 comments

Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course

https://thisismypersonalblog.com/posts/2026-09-25-getting-out-of-the-way/
61•systemerror•2d ago•15 comments

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928-a-virtual-power-plant-hidden-in-vermont-homes-is-keep...
365•devonnull•1d ago•269 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.