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I canceled my book deal

https://austinhenley.com/blog/canceledbookdeal.html
270•azhenley•4h ago•178 comments

Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-31/warren-buffett-steps-down-as-berkshire-hathaway...
94•ValentineC•1h ago•22 comments

All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv7434
38•QueensGambit•3h ago•3 comments

Privacy and control. My tech setup

https://toidiu.com/blog/2025-12-25-privacy-and-control/
119•todsacerdoti•4h ago•56 comments

Demystifying DVDs

https://hiddenpalace.org/News/One_Bad_Ass_Hedgehog_-_Shadow_the_Hedgehog#Demystifying_DVDs
71•boltzmann-brain•2d ago•6 comments

My role as a founder-CTO: year 8

https://miguelcarranza.es/cto-year-8
67•ridruejo•5d ago•72 comments

Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris

https://kywch.github.io/blog/2025/12/curriculum-learning-2048-tetris/
102•a1k0n•7h ago•26 comments

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design [pdf] (2011)

https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin%27s%20Laws%20of%20Spacecraft%20Design.pdf
246•tosh•13h ago•71 comments

When square pixels aren't square

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/square-pixels/
99•PaulHoule•9h ago•43 comments

Blog: PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-12-31-pypi-2025-in-review/
19•miketheman•4h ago•1 comments

Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/26/how-reality-crushed-ynsect-the-french-startup-that-had-raised-o...
33•fcpguru•4d ago•26 comments

The compiler is your best friend

https://blog.daniel-beskin.com/2025-12-22-the-compiler-is-your-best-friend-stop-lying-to-it
123•based2•7h ago•81 comments

Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.

https://exopriors.com/scry
284•Xyra•15h ago•105 comments

Microtonal Spiral Piano

https://shih1.github.io/spiral/
57•phoenix_ashes•5d ago•11 comments

Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died

https://obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-cheifet
142•spankibalt•5h ago•46 comments

The most famous transcendental numbers

https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/trans.html
129•vismit2000•10h ago•70 comments

SigNoz (YC W21, open source observability platform) is hiring across roles

https://signoz.io/careers
1•pranay01•6h ago

Show HN: Frockly – A visual editor for understanding complex Excel formulas

17•jack_ruru•6d ago•7 comments

Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups

https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-stopped-blocking-pop-ups/
23•coldpie•5h ago•20 comments

Observed Agent Sandbox Bypasses

https://voratiq.com/blog/yolo-in-the-sandbox/
3•m-hodges•3d ago•0 comments

How AI labs are solving the power problem

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/how-ai-labs-are-solving-the-power
93•Symmetry•9h ago•170 comments

Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/segundo

https://en.andros.dev/blog/7b1b607b/doom-in-django-testing-the-limits-of-liveview-at-600000-divss...
158•andros•3d ago•47 comments

The rise of industrial software

https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/12/30/the-rise-of-industrial-software
199•chrisloy•14h ago•152 comments

Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself [pdf] (1997)

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1997001_backto.pdf
92•fanf2•1w ago•23 comments

Kitchen optimizations

https://www.natemeyvis.com/kitchen-optimizations/
52•Theaetetus•1w ago•116 comments

Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/innovations/efficient-method-capture-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-de...
236•lrasinen•9h ago•260 comments

Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/inside-nvidia-gb10s-memory-subsystem
56•ingve•10h ago•4 comments

Who invented the transistor?

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-the-transistor.html
57•todsacerdoti•11h ago•64 comments

Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics

https://github.com/tixl3d/tixl
171•nateb2022•5d ago•27 comments

France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/31/france-plans-social-media-ban-for-under-15s-from-se...
165•belter•8h ago•206 comments
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•7mo 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.