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A Decade of Docker Containers

https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/
109•zacwest•2h ago•54 comments

The Millisecond That Could Change Cancer Treatment

https://spectrum.ieee.org/flash-radiotherapy
105•marc__1•3h ago•31 comments

Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST

https://ki-editor.org/
287•ravenical•8h ago•94 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf
56•PaulHoule•3d ago•3 comments

Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/recreating-the-complex-cuisine-of-prehistoric-europeans/
30•apollinaire•22h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Prompt Armour – Real-time PII detection for AI chatbots, 100% local

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8•TheAlexRider•1h ago•1 comments

Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

https://plasma-bigscreen.org
595•PaulHoule•19h ago•194 comments

The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260302-the-yoghurt-delivery-women-combatting-loneliness-in-j...
129•ranit•6h ago•86 comments

macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024)

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2024-07-20-macos-code-injection-fun/
7•jstrieb•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver

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56•lardissone•4h ago•20 comments

SigNoz (YC W21, open source Datadog) Is Hiring across roles

https://signoz.io/careers
1•pranay01•2h ago

Filesystems Are Having a Moment

https://madalitso.me/notes/why-everyone-is-talking-about-filesystems/
99•malgamves•8h ago•46 comments

PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/pc-processors-entered-the-gigahertz-era-today-in-...
118•LorenDB•5h ago•88 comments

Self-Portrait by Ernst Mach (1886)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/self-portrait-by-ernst-mach-1886/
55•Hooke•1d ago•9 comments

UUID package coming to Go standard library

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62026
319•soypat•17h ago•197 comments

Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé

https://dynomight.net/bourdieu/
12•sebg•2d ago•8 comments

this css proves me human

https://will-keleher.com/posts/this-css-makes-me-human/
335•todsacerdoti•21h ago•102 comments

48x32, a 1536 LED Game Computer (2023)

https://jacquesmattheij.com/48x32-introduction/
55•duck•2d ago•12 comments

Helix: A post-modern text editor

https://helix-editor.com/
280•doener•19h ago•136 comments

Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep

https://www.sciencealert.com/tinnitus-is-somehow-connected-to-a-crucial-bodily-function
106•bookofjoe•5h ago•128 comments

Seurat Most Famous for Paris Park Painting Yet Half His Paintings Were Seascapes

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16•bookofjoe•4d ago•5 comments

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/
303•askl•9h ago•174 comments

Show HN: µJS, a 5KB alternative to Htmx and Turbo with zero dependencies

https://mujs.org
54•amaury_bouchard•10h ago•17 comments

Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/working-and-communicating-with-japanese-engineers
112•zdw•4d ago•59 comments

Galileo's handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text

https://www.science.org/content/article/galileo-s-handwritten-notes-found-ancient-astronomy-text
196•tzury•2d ago•36 comments

The Banality of Surveillance

https://benn.substack.com/p/the-banality-of-surveillance
30•limbicsystem•2h ago•7 comments

Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion

901•shannoncc•19h ago•776 comments

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first

https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code
383•dnw•18h ago•269 comments

Lock Scroll with a Vengeance

https://unsung.aresluna.org/lock-scroll-with-a-vengeance/
49•etothet•3d ago•13 comments

January 6 commemorative plaque appears in Capitol after years of delay

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/07/politics/january-6-plaque-installed-capitol
9•Tomte•1h ago•0 comments
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Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

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

Comments

throwawaymaths•9mo 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•9mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•9mo 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•9mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•9mo 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.