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The A in AGI Stands for Ads

https://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/openads
107•calcifer•50m ago•60 comments

Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills

https://www.qu8n.com/posts/most-important-software-engineering-skill-2026
32•quanwinn•2h ago•33 comments

Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer

https://www.tuned.org.uk/posts/013_the_topological_transformer_training_tauformer
57•tuned•3h ago•12 comments

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html
110•tosh•6h ago•73 comments

What is Plan 9?

https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1
67•AlexeyBrin•1h ago•11 comments

ThinkNext Design

https://thinknextdesign.com/home.html
158•__patchbit__•8h ago•65 comments

Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/12/milk-v-titan-a-329-octa-core-64-bit-risc-v-mini-itx-mothe...
55•fork-bomber•6d ago•25 comments

Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

https://github.com/dannote/figma-use
26•dannote•9h ago•8 comments

Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons

https://icon-sets.iconify.design/
382•sea-gold•8h ago•41 comments

More sustainable epoxy thanks to phosphorus

https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/flamm-hemmendes-epoxidharz-nachhaltiger-machen
6•JeanKage•4d ago•0 comments

Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

https://twitter.com/neelsomani/status/2012695714187325745
237•nl•11h ago•194 comments

Keystone (YC S25) Is Hiring

1•pablo24602•3h ago

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
1071•alexharri•1d ago•123 comments

Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)

https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
132•bkudria•12h ago•25 comments

A free and open-source rootkit for Linux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1053099/19c2e8180aeb0438/
32•jwilk•5h ago•8 comments

Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations

https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/purple-garden-first-optimisations/
10•ibobev•3d ago•0 comments

jQuery 4

https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/
465•OuterVale•10h ago•146 comments

The recurring dream of replacing developers

https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html
533•glimshe•1d ago•413 comments

Show HN: GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval

https://github.com/gibram-io/gibram
41•ktyptorio•8h ago•4 comments

The longest Greek word

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopado%C2%ADtemacho%C2%ADselacho%C2%ADgaleo%C2%ADkranio%C2%ADleipsa...
154•firloop•11h ago•71 comments

Consent-O-Matic

https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
130•throawayonthe•5h ago•72 comments

The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster

https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/11/21/the-grab-list-how-museums-decide-what-to-save-in-a-disa...
36•surprisetalk•4d ago•7 comments

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

https://labs.ramp.com/rct
495•iamwil•6d ago•268 comments

Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish

https://github.com/kip-dili/kip
213•nhatcher•18h ago•62 comments

How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-london-finally-cracked-mobile-phone-coverage-on-the-unde...
109•beardyw•5d ago•109 comments

No knives, only cook knives

https://kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com/p/no-knives-only-cook-knives
85•firloop•15h ago•43 comments

Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board

https://github.com/dvelton/dm-chess
24•dustfinger•6d ago•7 comments

Raising money fucked me up

https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/raising-money-fucked-me-up
310•yakkomajuri•20h ago•108 comments

The Harvesting of Lettuce

https://sftw.substack.com/p/310-to-yuma
8•HR01•1h ago•0 comments

If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design

https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/115890819509545391
651•lateforwork•15h ago•246 comments
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•7mo ago

Comments

throwawaymaths•7mo 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•7mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•7mo 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•7mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•7mo 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.