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git's –end-of-options Flag

https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/21/end-of-options.html
26•Erenay09•1d ago•3 comments

Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56
699•gmays•11h ago•417 comments

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/quality-non-fiction-books-are-the
229•benbreen•14h ago•92 comments

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/
412•syrusakbary•11h ago•82 comments

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

https://bento.page/slides/
714•starfallg•13h ago•161 comments

Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/science/medici-family-mystery-dna-malaria
97•effects•6h ago•23 comments

Everyone should know SIMD

https://mitchellh.com/writing/everyone-should-know-simd
314•WadeGrimridge•10h ago•101 comments

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html
431•dcastm•11h ago•166 comments

ascdraw: Editor for ASCII/UTF-8 diagrams (in 144FPS)

https://github.com/exlee/ascdraw
15•xlii•2d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong

https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus-hybrid
92•HenryNdubuaku•10h ago•14 comments

John C. Dvorak has died

https://twitter.com/na_announce/status/2079952538040672302
644•coleca•9h ago•206 comments

Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program

https://github.blog/security/next-chapter-restructuring-githubs-bug-bounty-program/
17•soheilpro•2h ago•8 comments

Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/malleable-computing-emacs-and-you.html
82•kickingvegas•7h ago•23 comments

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

https://www.cole-k.com/2026/07/21/reddit/
337•montroser•16h ago•339 comments

Making

https://beej.us/blog/data/ai-making/
307•erikschoster•13h ago•117 comments

Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style

https://petals.dev/
77•snorbleck•3h ago•26 comments

Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support

https://nondescriptpointer.com/articles/fairphone-6-wide-camera-linux/
89•helonaut•8h ago•10 comments

The startup's Postgres survival guide

https://hatchet.run/blog/postgres-survival-guide
347•abelanger•15h ago•175 comments

Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth

https://ciphertalk.substack.com/p/nobody-knows-what-a-used-gpu-cluster
193•rbanffy•1w ago•177 comments

Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254
173•intunderflow•3h ago•211 comments

What Rose Petals Teach Us about Induction

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/rose-petals/
27•olooney•4d ago•2 comments

Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

https://blog.fiddery.com/businesses-with-ugly-ai-menu-redesigns/
212•speckx•15h ago•161 comments

Any text-to-SQL benchmark should address difficulties of real-world data stores

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/if-you-think-you-can-do-real-world-text-to-sql/
42•shenli3514•6h ago•13 comments

Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism (2012)

https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yvain-thewhisperingearring.html
56•dboon•9h ago•20 comments

Back to Kagi

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/back-to-kagi/
226•speckx•15h ago•171 comments

Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app

https://unlayer.com
47•adeelraza•12h ago•33 comments

Honey Bee Colony Monitoring via Audio IoT Sensors, Tensorgrams and RNNs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20386
8•StatsAreFun•2h ago•0 comments

Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere

https://ishmael.textualize.io/blog/ghost-cut/
142•willm•13h ago•97 comments

Taking OCaml and Eio for a Spin

https://mattjhall.co.uk/posts/taking-ocaml-eio-for-a-spin.html
45•mattjhall•2d ago•6 comments

All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized

https://claytondorge.com/patterns-list
39•toomuchtodo•6h ago•4 comments
Open in hackernews

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.