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“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103
413•cod1r•10h ago•236 comments

Changes to Android Open Source Project

https://source.android.com/
91•TechTechTech•2d ago•40 comments

The Performance Revolution in JavaScript Tooling

https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/12/03/the-performance-revolution-in-javascript-tooling.html
14•PaulHoule•6d ago•2 comments

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters

https://beta.dwitter.net
239•themanmaran•13h ago•51 comments

Oh My Zsh adds bloat

https://rushter.com/blog/zsh-shell/
143•fla•4h ago•134 comments

RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-01-08-crappy-computer-showdown/
216•scottjg•13h ago•82 comments

Start your meetings at 5 minutes past

https://philipotoole.com/start-your-meetings-at-5-minutes-past/
110•otoolep•10h ago•89 comments

Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-eye-greenland-sharks-vision-centuries.html
81•pseudolus•3d ago•21 comments

How Markdown took over the world

https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
240•zdw•14h ago•195 comments

Alien: Braun Aromaster KF 20 Coffee Makers (2012)

http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/1979/05/kf-20-coffee-making-machine.html
26•exvi•1w ago•3 comments

How will the miracle happen today?

https://kk.org/thetechnium/how-will-the-miracle-happen-today/
433•zdw•5d ago•223 comments

Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator

https://www.donutthejedi.com/
121•donutthejedi•13h ago•35 comments

Show HN: Miditui – a terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback

https://github.com/minimaxir/miditui
35•minimaxir•1d ago•4 comments

CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled

https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2026/01/07/cdc-staff-blindsided-as-child-vaccine...
67•stopbulying•3h ago•16 comments

Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

https://quack.sdan.io
230•sdan•14h ago•59 comments

Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492
513•sidcool•15h ago•703 comments

Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/science/poison-arrows-south-africa.html
114•noleary•1d ago•40 comments

My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it

https://matthewrocklin.com/ai-zealotry/
110•akshayka•14h ago•163 comments

The likely cheapest home-made Michelson interferometer

https://guille.site/posts/3d-printed-michelson/
96•LolWolf•5d ago•58 comments

OLED, Not for Me

https://nuxx.net/blog/2026/01/09/oled-not-for-me/
80•c0nsumer•4h ago•87 comments

Favorite Tech Museums

https://aresluna.org/fav-tech-museums/
45•justincormack•4d ago•21 comments

Robotopia: A 3D, first-person, talking simulator

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/introducing-robotopia-a-3d-first
53•psawaya•1d ago•17 comments

USDA suspends federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis

https://turnto10.com/news/nation-world/enough-is-enough-usda-suspends-federal-financial-awards-to...
28•blurbleblurble•5h ago•11 comments

How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code

https://www.mihaileric.com/The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/
750•nutellalover•1d ago•230 comments

Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux

https://help.kagi.com/orion/misc/linux-status.html
379•HelloUsername•19h ago•266 comments

How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022)

https://ezzeriesa.notion.site/How-to-store-a-chess-position-in-26-bytes-using-bit-level-magic-df1...
98•kurinikku•17h ago•79 comments

Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear

https://lend-me-your-ears.specr.net
465•vunderba•15h ago•163 comments

Sigmund Freud's Begonia

https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/emma-freud-sigmund-freuds-begonia
24•dang•11h ago•7 comments

Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times

https://nexanet.ai/blog/53-times-flocksafety-hardcoded-the-password-for-americas-surveillance-inf...
422•fuck_flock•15h ago•140 comments

Show HN: Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side

https://puzer.github.io/github_recommender/
136•puzer•3d ago•36 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.