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Building a Simple Search Engine That Works

https://karboosx.net/post/4eZxhBon/building-a-simple-search-engine-that-actually-works
80•freediver•5h ago•13 comments

Open-source Zig book

https://www.zigbook.net
562•rudedogg•13h ago•224 comments

A file format uncracked for 20 years

https://landaire.net/a-file-format-uncracked-for-20-years/
158•todsacerdoti•1w ago•19 comments

Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models

https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
539•melded•17h ago•219 comments

A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser

https://minivac.greg.technology/
53•vaibhavsagar•6h ago•12 comments

Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL

https://peterullrich.com/listen-to-database-changes-through-the-postgres-wal
73•pjullrich•5d ago•13 comments

Where do the children play?

https://unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-the-children-play
51•casca•19h ago•16 comments

PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

https://picoide.com/
104•st_goliath•9h ago•20 comments

A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents

https://www.shoosmiths.com/insights/articles/a-new-chapter-begins-for-ev-batteries-with-the-expir...
124•toomuchtodo•8h ago•89 comments

The fate of "small" open source

https://nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the-fate-of-small-open-source/
205•todsacerdoti•13h ago•141 comments

Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-your-brain-creates-aha-moments-and-why-they-stick-20251105/
99•wjb3•10h ago•24 comments

I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels

https://david.coffee/cloudflare-zero-trust-tunnels
195•eustoria•15h ago•67 comments

The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023)

https://www.ahalbert.com/technology/2023/12/19/the_pragmatic_programmer.html
128•ahalbert2•12h ago•23 comments

runit Linux: Guide to Unix Init Scheme with Service Supervision

https://codelucky.com/runit-linux-init-service-supervision/
29•smartmic•5d ago•9 comments

Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines

https://ericpony.github.io/z3py-tutorial/guide-examples.htm
117•amit-bansil•14h ago•9 comments

FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT

https://bit-hack.net/2025/11/10/fpga-based-ibm-pc-xt/
168•andsoitis•17h ago•33 comments

People are using iPad OS features on their iPhones

https://idevicecentral.com/ios-customization/how-to-enable-ipad-features-like-multitasking-stage-...
60•K0IN•6h ago•43 comments

Fourier Transforms

https://www.continuummechanics.org/fourierxforms.html
138•o4c•1w ago•18 comments

Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)

https://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm
209•lachlan_gray•9h ago•65 comments

Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)

https://github.com/jonasstrehle/supercookie
293•vxvrs•13h ago•63 comments

A Man Who Rescued Faulkner

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2025/12/malcolm-cowley-american-literature/684606/
4•Hooke•1w ago•1 comments

Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It's Slowing Down

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-the-heartbeat-of-deep-lakes-at-crater-lake-its-slowing-d...
18•pseudolus•5h ago•3 comments

I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure

https://jonathanclark.com/posts/coinbase-breach-timeline.html
489•jclarkcom•12h ago•143 comments

Extreme Moon: The Major Lunar Standstill of 2024-2025

https://griffithobservatory.org/extreme-moon-the-major-lunar-standstills-of-2024-2025/
15•keepamovin•4d ago•0 comments

Origin and Evolution of the Globstar

https://mergify.com/blog/origin-and-evolution-of-the-globstar
5•remyduthu•1w ago•1 comments

Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml

https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2025/11/16/libdrm-ocaml/
65•ibobev•13h ago•12 comments

Dark Pattern Games

https://www.darkpattern.games
220•robotnikman•13h ago•85 comments

Garbage collection is useful

https://dubroy.com/blog/garbage-collection-is-useful/
145•surprisetalk•19h ago•46 comments

Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit

https://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/
989•vxvxvx•21h ago•286 comments

Why Castrol Honda Superbike crashes on (most) modern systems

https://seri.tools/blog/castrol-honda-superbike/
37•shepmaster•12h ago•0 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.