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Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer
278•tintinnabula•5h ago•101 comments

First Website

https://info.cern.ch
64•shrikaranhanda•2h ago•14 comments

Making MCP cheaper via CLI

https://kanyilmaz.me/2026/02/23/cli-vs-mcp.html
115•thellimist•4h ago•55 comments

Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/32492/origin-of-the-rule-that-swap-size-should...
23•SeenNotHeard•2h ago•19 comments

Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/01/21/notepad-and-paint-updates-begin-rolling-out-...
179•andreynering•8h ago•311 comments

Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-united-states-needs-fewer-bus-stops/
291•surprisetalk•8h ago•454 comments

The Om Programming Language

https://www.om-language.com/
229•tosh•7h ago•47 comments

Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

https://respectify.org/
85•vintagedave•10h ago•110 comments

Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs

https://simonlermen.substack.com/p/large-scale-online-deanonymization
185•DalasNoin•1d ago•160 comments

The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck

https://www.mikeayles.com/blog/hydrogen-refuelling-road-freight/
19•mikeayles•1d ago•13 comments

Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/vae-reconstruction-vs-generation
68•schopra909•1d ago•11 comments

Artist who "paints" portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer

https://simonbergerart.com
20•cs702•3d ago•11 comments

Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

https://github.com/odvcencio/gotreesitter
183•odvcencio•6h ago•74 comments

Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage collection (OpenJDK 26)

https://norlinder.nu/posts/GC-Cost-CPU-vs-Memory/
39•jonasn•1d ago•11 comments

The First Fully General Computer Action Model

https://si.inc/posts/fdm1/
136•nee1r•2d ago•47 comments

How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)

https://web.archive.org/web/20011104015933/www.linkclub.or.jp/~null/index_br.html
253•exvi•3d ago•36 comments

Access to a Shared Unix Computer

http://tilde.club/
42•TigerUniversity•3d ago•13 comments

Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/final-2025-data-is-in-us-energy-use-is-up-as-solar-passes...
394•rbanffy•8h ago•328 comments

Claude Code Remote Control

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control
494•empressplay•17h ago•282 comments

GNU Texmacs

https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html
121•remywang•9h ago•43 comments

The Misuses of the University

https://www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-of-the-university/
120•ubasu•8h ago•83 comments

Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/devirtualization-and-static-polymorphism/
35•dalvrosa•6h ago•15 comments

Trellis AI (YC W24) is hiring deployment lead to accelerate medication access

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trellis-ai/jobs/7ZlvQkN-lead-deployment-strategist
1•macklinkachorn•8h ago

Never buy a .online domain

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/online-tld-is-pain
661•ssiddharth•11h ago•408 comments

Why isn't LA repaving streets?

https://lapublicpress.org/2026/02/why-isnt-la-repaving-streets/
97•speckx•8h ago•190 comments

Text-Based Google Directions

https://gdir.telae.net/
55•TigerUniversity•4d ago•15 comments

New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes

https://www.marginalia.nu/weird-ai-crap/hn/
590•todsacerdoti•10h ago•494 comments

Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats

https://app.teamout.com/ai
38•vincentalbouy•11h ago•48 comments

Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)

https://therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence
737•robtherobber•15h ago•370 comments

US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-so...
440•colinhb•10h ago•373 comments
Open in hackernews

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.