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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorke...
275•rdmuser•3h ago•154 comments

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
320•Philpax•7h ago•91 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
115•ishan0102•4h ago•41 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
111•E-Reverance•5h ago•18 comments

AI Tutoring with Khanmigo in a Two-Year School Experiment

https://edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1551
31•bryan0•2h ago•22 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
66•ibobev•3h ago•13 comments

Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
92•jgx0•3h ago•57 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
219•outlier99•5h ago•163 comments

An Algorithmic Failure Beneath the Secret Ballot

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/08/03/an-algorithmic-failure-beneath-the-secret-ballot/
31•leecoursey•2d ago•9 comments

Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html
20•networked•2h ago•7 comments

Worth Building

https://armstr.ng/writing/worth-building
39•colinarms•3h ago•29 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
490•tosh•15h ago•222 comments

Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort

https://smyck.net/2026/10/03/holocron-the-backup-of-last-resort/
65•hukl•1d ago•60 comments

Ephemeral Testing

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/
35•ibobev•3h ago•12 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
123•vinhnx•2d ago•27 comments

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
32•greyface-•1d ago•4 comments

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
562•emptybits•20h ago•474 comments

Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
38•walrus01•1d ago•7 comments

Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally

https://globalsolaratlas.info/
14•stratts•3h ago•9 comments

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/texas-city-demands-2m-for-public-records-on-flock-usage/
106•01-_-•4h ago•15 comments

Unruly Folded Sheets

https://literaryreview.co.uk/unruly-folded-sheets
4•Thevet•1d ago•0 comments

Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf]

https://nivdayan.github.io/dostoevsky.pdf
17•ibobev•3h ago•0 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
135•Vosporos•11h ago•33 comments

High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days

https://www.thedrive.com/news/high-diesel-prices-bankrupted-16-trucking-companies-in-just-30-days
25•speckx•1h ago•8 comments

Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning

https://almostimplemented.github.io/jazz-pianist-style/
21•ishan0102•3h ago•2 comments

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
210•maguay•16h ago•187 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
132•farslan•12h ago•66 comments

The Future of Mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/the-future-of-mathematics/
102•smilelamp•6h ago•56 comments

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfol...
176•0xedb•18h ago•117 comments

Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)

https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html
100•mkornaukhov•12h ago•22 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.