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Scorched Earth 2000 is back

http://www.scorch2000.com/web/
50•meshko•1h ago•18 comments

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-l...
537•haunter•3d ago•353 comments

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/
502•speckx•11h ago•159 comments

A History of IDEs at Google

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
280•laurentlb•4d ago•206 comments

Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

https://ardoedo.it/kempelen/
91•Eswo•2d ago•28 comments

The Emacsification of Software

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/
197•rdslw•19h ago•134 comments

Marco Polo: Finding a friend with only distance and motion

https://www.jackhogan.me/blog/marco-polo
39•jackhogan11•2d ago•5 comments

Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-exami...
254•bookofjoe•6h ago•362 comments

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
310•jnord•1d ago•236 comments

The Other Half of AI Safety

https://personalaisafety.com/p/the-other-half-of-ai-safety
45•sofiaqt•1h ago•54 comments

Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

https://github.com/nooga/xsofy
161•andsoitis•3d ago•70 comments

Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration

https://www.tryardent.com/
68•vc289•9h ago•31 comments

AEPs: API Enhancement Proposals

https://github.com/aep-dev/aeps
4•nateb2022•1d ago•0 comments

The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization

https://avkcode.github.io/blog/us-winning-ai-race.html
165•akrylov•12h ago•470 comments

S-100 Virtual Workbench

https://grantmestrength.github.io/S100/
104•rbanffy•10h ago•20 comments

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014
203•curiousgal•4d ago•79 comments

The Age of the Amplifier

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-age-of-the-amplifier
8•surprisetalk•1d ago•0 comments

A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools

https://andreafortuna.org/2026/05/13/amarcord/
48•speckx•7h ago•16 comments

Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

174•pycassa•4h ago•61 comments

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
639•HenryNdubuaku•1d ago•184 comments

After 3 decades of splendid scientific communication, this one's for you, Ned

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2026/05/08/after-3-decades-of-splendid-scientific-communi...
15•rolph•3d ago•0 comments

Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads

https://www.theverge.com/tech/929091/meta-ai-threads-account-block
113•logickkk1•5h ago•46 comments

An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins

https://magnusross.github.io/posts/protein-lead-optimisation-1/
140•magni121•2d ago•16 comments

Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

https://jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-github-for-forgejo/
530•jorijn•13h ago•282 comments

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=37.%20Pixter
210•dmitrygr•2d ago•44 comments

I moved my digital stack to Europe

https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/
889•monokai_nl•14h ago•539 comments

Comparing a 1980s memory map to the Raspi Pico

https://medium.com/@noborutakahashi/a-40-year-old-memory-map-comparable-to-todays-raspberry-pi-pi...
22•Schlagbohrer•3d ago•0 comments

Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/medicares-new-payment-model-is-built-for-ai-and-most-of-the-tec...
58•brandonb•4h ago•34 comments

Making the news available at no cost is a victory

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2026/05/12/just-days-tribune-reporting/
111•danso•7h ago•112 comments

Substrate (YC S24) Is Hiring a Technical Success Manager

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/substrate/jobs/T2fMBhD-technical-success-manager
1•kunle•14h ago
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•11mo ago

Comments

throwawaymaths•11mo 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•11mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•11mo 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•11mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•11mo 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.