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NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength...
287•rbanffy•11h ago•131 comments

Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pause a Game

https://kotaku.com/video-game-devs-explain-how-pausing-works-and-sometimes-it-gets-weird-2000686339
44•speckx•2d ago•24 comments

Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

https://tokens.billchambers.me/leaderboard
506•anabranch•16h ago•498 comments

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/a-college-instructor-turns-to-typewriters-to-curb-ai-w...
253•gnabgib•13h ago•237 comments

What are skiplists good for?

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/skiptrees/
50•mfiguiere•1d ago•12 comments

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

https://www.righto.com/2026/04/B-52-star-tracker-angle-computer.html
319•NelsonMinar•15h ago•89 comments

Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine

https://jackpritz.com/blog/updating-gun-rocket-through-10-years-of-unity-engine
69•tyleo•2d ago•28 comments

SI Units for Request Rate (2024)

https://entropicthoughts.com/si-units-for-request-rate
55•fanf2•2d ago•27 comments

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702
24•nobody9999•1h ago•1 comments

Why Japan has such good railways

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
385•RickJWagner•19h ago•361 comments

The RAM shortage could last years

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914672/the-ram-shortage-could-last-years
12•omer_k•56m ago•4 comments

The world in which IPv6 was a good design

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810
25•signa11•5h ago•3 comments

Modern Common Lisp with FSet

https://fset.common-lisp.dev/Modern-CL/Top_html/index.html
142•larve•3d ago•17 comments

State of Kdenlive

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/
388•f_r_d•20h ago•122 comments

Metatextual Literacy

https://www.jenn.site/metatextual-literacy/
22•dado3212•3d ago•4 comments

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

https://isayeter.com/posts/digitalocean-to-hetzner-migration/
754•yusufusta•18h ago•381 comments

Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html
92•weaksauce•11h ago•35 comments

Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon

https://abacusnoir.com/2026/04/18/zero-copy-gpu-inference-from-webassembly-on-apple-silicon/
69•agambrahma•9h ago•27 comments

Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-dizzying-spiral-staircase-with-a-single-guardrail-onc...
22•bookofjoe•2d ago•8 comments

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260418-claude-design/
294•cdrnsf•12h ago•192 comments

Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups

https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/special/sokanzu/en/2026/
208•Lwrless•3d ago•10 comments

Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC

https://github.com/riyaneel/Tachyon/tree/main/docs/adr
38•riyaneel•2d ago•16 comments

Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data

https://github.com/drasimwagan/mdv
110•drasim•16h ago•41 comments

My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo

https://blog.marcoinacio.com/posts/my-first-impressions-rocm-strix-halo/
37•random_•10h ago•30 comments

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2026/04/17/nasa-shuts-off-instrument-on-voyager-1-to-keep-...
156•sohkamyung•8h ago•73 comments

Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On

https://vlad.website/binary-dependencies-identifying-the-hidden-packages-we-all-depend-on/
4•PaulHoule•2d ago•0 comments

Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260414075641.htm
96•t-3•3d ago•37 comments

Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013)

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/08/28/understanding-the-fft/
85•peter_d_sherman•4d ago•9 comments

Fuzix OS

https://www.fuzix.org/
99•DeathArrow•16h ago•25 comments

80386 Memory Pipeline

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_memory_pipeline/
105•wicket•4d ago•15 comments
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•10mo ago

Comments

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