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I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-s...
125•speckx•1h ago•44 comments

Playa Phone

https://playaphone.com/
293•cutoff•3h ago•118 comments

The safest job from AI may be writing

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-safest-job-from-ai-may-be-writing.html
22•ilreb•28m ago•17 comments

ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

https://ravynos.com/
77•Bluestein•2h ago•49 comments

Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message

https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workda...
17•saulpw•33m ago•12 comments

ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference

https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/
121•ijidak•4h ago•44 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workweave
1•adchurch•25m ago

A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A
9•keithcarolus•19m ago•4 comments

Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

https://usealmanac.com/
23•kushagrchitkar•3h ago•30 comments

C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments

https://www.cppstories.com/2026/hardening-experiments/
57•ibobev•3h ago•33 comments

No country for mediocre mathematicians

https://garvvee.substack.com/p/no-country-for-mediocre-mathematicians
54•reasonableklout•1d ago•28 comments

Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones

https://www.wsj.com/tech/gps-jammers-dead-zones-e76f3261
17•vinnyglennon•1d ago•10 comments

The Snow/Leavis ‘two cultures’ clash

https://aeon.co/essays/at-the-heart-of-the-snow-leavis-two-cultures-clash
52•Hooke•3h ago•27 comments

Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/
103•thm•5h ago•121 comments

You probably own this 7-Eleven (and that's why it looks so sad)

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/you-probably-own-this-7-eleven
54•iamnothere•2h ago•51 comments

Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires

https://www.governance.fyi/p/accidental-aesthetics-and-romance
16•crescit_eundo•19h ago•1 comments

Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines

https://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow
26•kstonekuan•3h ago•9 comments

Tmp.0ut, Vol. 5

https://tmpout.sh/5/
13•kmstout•6d ago•0 comments

Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dwarf-fortress-is-getting-the-mother-of-all-magic-updates-extend...
70•Tomte•4d ago•7 comments

Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Zuse-Computer-Museum-ZCOM-in-Hoyerswerda-faces-closure-11344513.html
78•virtualritz•1h ago•36 comments

Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/31/forbidden-planet-was-plutos-2006-demotion-a-big-m...
7•ziofill•12h ago•0 comments

Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI

https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/08/30/SBFXUIJQYZEARKP5T4FBAY25HQ/
15•geox•1d ago•1 comments

Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT

https://dreamstation.systems/personal/ntppost.html
93•robinpie•16h ago•55 comments

Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT

https://twitter.com/andrew_n_carr/status/2093524390390694232
33•notRobot•2d ago•27 comments

Separating logic and language

https://news.mit.edu/2026/separating-logic-and-language-0708
17•myelinscience•3d ago•13 comments

DNS abuse and criminal infrastructure

https://labs.ripe.net/author/andrew_campling/dns-abuse-and-criminal-infrastructure-beyond-definit...
60•jruohonen•1d ago•32 comments

Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker

https://pantsforbirds.com/the-worlds-smallest-dual-band-ads-b-receiver-module/
45•CoolNamesAllTkn•4d ago•9 comments

I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary
107•jcurbo•6h ago•63 comments

'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/stunning-percolation-proof-solves-decades-old-puzzle-about-phase-t...
6•tzury•1h ago•0 comments

OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/
447•metrofun•8h ago•101 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.