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AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods
610•moonleay•8h ago•148 comments

Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html
1526•immibis•22h ago•383 comments

IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

https://codeberg.org/IDEmacs/IDEmacs
174•nogajun•7h ago•38 comments

Things that aren't doing the thing

https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-thing
246•downboots•14h ago•121 comments

Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript

https://www.owl.is/blogg/blocking-crawlers-without-javascript/
119•todsacerdoti•9h ago•57 comments

libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C

https://libwifi.so/
97•vitalnodo•10h ago•9 comments

The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024)

https://blog.polybdenum.com/2024/06/07/the-inconceivable-types-of-rust-how-to-make-self-borrows-s...
75•birdculture•9h ago•8 comments

When did people favor composition over inheritance?

https://www.sicpers.info/2025/11/when-did-people-favor-composition-over-inheritance/
151•ingve•1w ago•103 comments

Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust

https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
213•maxloh•1w ago•64 comments

AsciiMath

https://asciimath.org/
89•smartmic•11h ago•25 comments

Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N

https://www.thedrive.com/news/replacing-brake-pads-on-a-hyundai-ioniq-5-n-requires-a-professional...
17•zdw•5h ago•4 comments

When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/11/when-ups-charged-me-684-tariff-on-355.html
202•goldenskye•8h ago•166 comments

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance

https://elifesciences.org/articles/109427
141•nabla9•13h ago•80 comments

Writing a DOS Clone in 2019

https://medium.com/@andrewimm/writing-a-dos-clone-in-2019-70eac97ec3e1
5•shakna•1w ago•1 comments

Aunt Mary's Storybook

https://cjtinc.org/projects/amsb/
11•mooreds•1w ago•1 comments

Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares

https://unflipgame.com/
116•bogdanoff_2•4d ago•31 comments

Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729

https://borretti.me/article/linux-on-the-fujitsu-lifebook-u729
182•ibobev•17h ago•129 comments

Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering

https://pinetreelabs.github.io/archimedes/blog/2025/introduction.html
77•i_don_t_know•13h ago•11 comments

Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/14/tim-cook-step-down-as-apple-ceo-as-soon-as-next-year-report/
149•achow•11h ago•297 comments

TCP, the workhorse of the internet

https://cefboud.com/posts/tcp-deep-dive-internals/
306•signa11•1d ago•145 comments

JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/jvm-exceptions-are-weird-a-decompiler-perspective/
68•birdculture•1w ago•4 comments

Tangled Mess

https://www.subbu.org/articles/2025/tangled-mess/
12•gpi•5d ago•2 comments

Computing Across America (1983-1985)

https://microship.com/winnebiko/
19•austinallegro•1w ago•3 comments

EyesOff: How I built a screen contact detection model

https://ym2132.github.io/building_EyesOff_part2_model_training
22•Two_hands•23h ago•6 comments

Ubiquiti Flex Mini 2.5G Review Ubiquiti Does a Cheap 5-Port 2.5GbE Switch

https://www.servethehome.com/ubiquiti-flex-mini-2-5g-review-ubiquiti-does-a-cheap-5-port-2-5gbe-s...
8•ksec•1h ago•0 comments

Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations

https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnels-injuries-osha-citations-fines-res...
266•Chinjut•13h ago•45 comments

The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee's early programming career (2017)

https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2017/06/28/the-computer-poetry-of-j-m-coetzees-earl...
58•bluejay2•13h ago•10 comments

Why export templates would be useful in C++ (2010)

http://warp.povusers.org/programming/export_templates.html
13•PaulHoule•1w ago•1 comments

A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition

https://generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google-quietly-solved-two-of
532•scrlk•4d ago•294 comments

Mag Wealth (2024)

https://saul.pw/mag/wealth/
137•andsoitis•16h ago•158 comments
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Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•5mo ago

Comments

throwawaymaths•5mo 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•5mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•5mo 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•5mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•5mo 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.