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Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

https://nanolathe.gg
246•jttnr•3h ago•99 comments

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046
35•albertzeyer•1h ago•9 comments

Cartographers of North Korea

https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/
82•edent•2h ago•8 comments

Do You Have Pre-2012 Onion Issues?

https://theonion.com/archivehunt/
160•mooreds•2h ago•14 comments

Chapter 1 of Ways of Seeing by John Berger

https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ch1
52•rafael859•3h ago•9 comments

NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

https://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel
251•gregsadetsky•3h ago•109 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
268•Anon84•8h ago•319 comments

How to Build Wealth as a Career Person

https://asheradeniyi.com/2026/04/10/how-to-build-wealth-as-a-career-person/
97•doppp•5h ago•100 comments

I guess I'm using WebP now?

https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/08/i-guess-im-using-webp-now
44•Brajeshwar•2d ago•38 comments

IRCv3

https://ircv3.net/
306•basilikum•11h ago•264 comments

A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her

https://www.inc.com/chloe-rosenberg/a-remote-employee-refused-160-webcam-photos-a-day-her-employe...
27•bhrlady•40m ago•6 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS

https://blog.kammel.dev/post/nixos_vex/
28•datosh•2h ago•0 comments

apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper

https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw
46•tosh•4h ago•12 comments

The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME

https://disconnect3d.pl//2026/10/02/dont-put-tilde-in-your-path/
190•arusekk•9h ago•130 comments

LineageOS 24.0

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-32/
386•timschumi•15h ago•163 comments

Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

https://betterwispr.com/
126•kartik017•9h ago•78 comments

Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs

https://medium.com/@timventura/akhetonics-photonic-computing-1-000x-faster-cpus-b9e91c470079
46•peter_d_sherman•3d ago•33 comments

How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect

http://epestr.com/blog/reverse-engineering-a-commercial-spatial-audio-effect/
74•epestr•6h ago•26 comments

FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE

https://tommyb3ll.github.io/FlowCE/
8•jgx0•1d ago•3 comments

Shape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its own movement as it bends and twists

https://news.mit.edu/2026/shape-sensing-sheet-digitally-tracks-movement-bends-twists-1008
20•bookofjoe•1d ago•0 comments

Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking

https://verdagon.dev/blog/valen-group-borrowing
121•verdagon•9h ago•73 comments

Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things

https://www.playgrnd.tools/
43•eustoria•5h ago•8 comments

The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4

https://www.theverge.com/games/1009140/ram-shortage-intel-amd-ddr4-comeback
260•1potato•1d ago•267 comments

Artificial Insanity

https://richwhitehouse.com/index.php?postid=78
49•leglock•2h ago•46 comments

I'm sorry, but you still have to think

https://itsallaboutthebit.com/i-am-sorry-but-you-still-have-to-think/
277•drogus•7h ago•112 comments

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

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/weave-os
1•adchurch•9h ago

A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/a-cray-1-supercomputer-replica-from-30-obsolete-mac-minis/
51•pseudolus•1d ago•22 comments

I paid people to try and follow my README

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/i-paid-people-to-try-and-follow-my-readme/
348•edent•10h ago•182 comments

Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-scandinavia-farmers-slaughtered-hunter-population.html
47•optimalsolver•9h ago•71 comments

3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

https://status.yandex.cloud/en/incidents/2136
530•defly•14h ago•635 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.