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There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html
55•gukoff•4h ago•12 comments

My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
365•seg6•13h ago•146 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword
93•BruceEel•6h ago•41 comments

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

https://os8088.com/
188•jggonz•12h ago•109 comments

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground
34•michaefe•4d ago•3 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html
13•Lammy•1h ago•4 comments

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
440•groomlake•19h ago•228 comments

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
267•bobbiechen•1w ago•26 comments

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
237•jmusall•12h ago•17 comments

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
231•adletbalzhanov•13h ago•145 comments

You might want to build your WebApp in Canvas instead of HTML

https://hivekit.io/blog/why-you-might-want-to-build-your-webapp-in-canvas-instead-of-html/
14•wolframhempel•6d ago•9 comments

Protopia

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/protopia
23•surprisetalk•4d ago•13 comments

The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)

http://longbets.org/601/
159•doubletwoyou•7h ago•71 comments

Everything You Do Is Being Recorded

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
9•ike_usawa•28m ago•0 comments

_for-sale DNS records

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
405•shaunpud•22h ago•157 comments

Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/46/Supplement_1/A34/7181621
142•bohaska•10h ago•131 comments

CSS: The bomb inside your inbox

https://portswigger.net/research/css-the-bomb-inside-your-inbox
27•ashurandi•1h ago•5 comments

Stylized GGX Shading

https://alexandrelamure.github.io/graphics-posts/stylized-ggx-shading.html
33•ibobev•5d ago•0 comments

How to Survive in a Louisiana Swamp

https://unherd.com/2026/08/how-to-survive-on-a-louisiana-swamp/
12•bookofjoe•3d ago•1 comments

Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5
67•davidbarker•6d ago•21 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves
129•hakkikonu•4d ago•50 comments

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-pro...
165•MarcoDewey•16h ago•43 comments

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/
47•frozenseven•10h ago•3 comments

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles
69•tchalla•13h ago•74 comments

Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

https://airy.so
4•login588•2h ago•2 comments

Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g64152v71o
21•1659447091•7h ago•20 comments

Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost

https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel-and-hiring-because-of-ais-soaring-cost/
43•theanonymousone•3h ago•18 comments

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week
220•minimaxir•8h ago•29 comments

Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband

https://zeus.ugent.be/blog/25-26/12urenloop-uwb/
91•robinpdev•1w ago•8 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
186•electricant•22h ago•40 comments
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Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•1y ago

Comments

throwawaymaths•1y 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•1y ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•1y 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•1y ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•1y 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.