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Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/01/16/internet-voting-is-insecure-and-should-not-be-used-in-...
74•WaitWaitWha•36m ago•40 comments

Significant US Farm Losses Persist, Despite Federal Assistance

https://www.fb.org/market-intel/significant-farm-losses-persist-despite-federal-assistance
32•toomuchtodo•36m ago•16 comments

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, and convert them to safe PDFs

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78•dp-hackernews•2h ago•26 comments

Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)

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503•huntergemmer•10h ago•146 comments

Claude's new constitution

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310•meetpateltech•9h ago•306 comments

Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01174
21•redbell•4d ago•0 comments

Show HN: RatatuiRuby wraps Rust Ratatui as a RubyGem – TUIs with the joy of Ruby

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70•Kerrick•4d ago•6 comments

Skip is now free and open source

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280•dayanruben•10h ago•123 comments

Golfing APL/K in 90 Lines of Python

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49•aburjg•5d ago•9 comments

Letting Claude play text adventures

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73•varjag•5d ago•28 comments

Show HN: Rails UI

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104•justalever•7h ago•71 comments

Challenges in join optimization

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43•HermitX•8h ago•11 comments

The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly

https://github.com/soegaard/webracket
95•mfru•4d ago•20 comments

An explanation of cheating in Doom2 Deathmatch (1999)

https://www.doom2.net/doom2/cheating.html
23•Lammy•4d ago•1 comments

Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring

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1•linaz•4h ago

TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source

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63•kumrayu•8h ago•14 comments

Three types of LLM workloads and how to serve them

https://modal.com/llm-almanac/workloads
41•charles_irl•9h ago•1 comments

Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi

https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
220•josephwegner•8h ago•143 comments

Mystery of the Head Activator

https://www.asimov.press/p/head-activator
17•mailyk•3d ago•3 comments

Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing

https://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/parallel-computing/
28•speckx•6h ago•17 comments

Stevey's Birthday Blog

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30•throwawayHMM19•1d ago•9 comments

SIMD programming in pure Rust

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53•randomint64•2d ago•15 comments

Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned

42•oliverjanssen•11h ago•28 comments

Can you slim macOS down?

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174•ingve•17h ago•216 comments

Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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69•vektor888•4h ago•53 comments

Nested code fences in Markdown

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187•todsacerdoti•12h ago•63 comments

Open source server code for the BitCraft MMORPG

https://github.com/clockworklabs/BitCraftPublic
41•sfkgtbor•8h ago•12 comments

Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967)

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/didion/
61•jxmorris12•8h ago•7 comments

Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260120000333.htm
256•saikatsg•7h ago•73 comments

I finally got my sway layout to autostart the way I like it

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27•__hugues•16h ago•4 comments
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•8mo ago

Comments

throwawaymaths•7mo 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•7mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•7mo 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•7mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•7mo 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.