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Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/hobby_canada/hobby_canada
103•rbanffy•3h ago•29 comments

MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students

https://president.mit.edu/writing-speeches/video-transcript-message-president-kornbluth-about-fun...
252•dmayo•1h ago•257 comments

Claude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/bitcoin-trader-recovers-usd400-000-usin...
124•cednore•1h ago•55 comments

RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/
4•allenleee•27m ago•0 comments

Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

https://www.anthropic.com/news/gates-foundation-partnership
38•surprisetalk•1h ago•23 comments

Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay

https://numa.rs/blog/posts/odoh-anonymous-dns-without-an-account.html
90•rdme•5h ago•28 comments

Claude for Small Business

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business
450•neilfrndes•12h ago•406 comments

LinkedIn Fanfiction

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_137_linkedin_fanfiction/
8•marginalia_nu•38m ago•2 comments

On The Conflation of Money and Things

https://lithub.com/is-it-even-real-on-the-conflation-of-money-and-things/
5•bookofjoe•38m ago•0 comments

60fps Video on a CGA? – The GlyphBlaster

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/05/60fps-video-on-cga-glyphblaster.html
21•tambourine_man•4d ago•1 comments

The Tree House: A voyage to the source of a backyard dream

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/tree-house
46•Caiero•2d ago•4 comments

USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought

https://www.agweb.com/news/usda-projects-smallest-us-wheat-harvest-1972-due-plains-drought
166•littlexsparkee•2h ago•114 comments

Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)

https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
56•signa11•4h ago•29 comments

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-l...
905•haunter•3d ago•553 comments

Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

http://www.scorch2000.com/web/
341•meshko•15h ago•136 comments

Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altmans-business-dealings-under-gop-scrutiny-ahead-of-openais-ipo...
115•1vuio0pswjnm7•3h ago•80 comments

New agents.txt file found on DreamHost

https://journal.kvibber.com/2026/05/agents-txt-on-dreamhost/
3•speckx•42m ago•1 comments

Leaving the Physical World

https://www.eff.org/pages/leaving-physical-world
122•andsoitis•4d ago•54 comments

Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ancient-sea-fossils-millipede-centipede.html
4•gmays•2d ago•0 comments

Saying Goodbye to one line of APL

https://homewithinnowhere.com/posts/2026-05-10-one-line.html#fnref1
53•tosh•3d ago•13 comments

Pipes, Forks, and Zombies

https://cs61.seas.harvard.edu/wiki/2017/Shell3/
27•tosh•5h ago•3 comments

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/
600•speckx•1d ago•201 comments

A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development

https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities
160•cdrnsf•13h ago•35 comments

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/
295•tosh•21h ago•356 comments

Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-layoffs-bad-vibes-mark-zuckerberg-ai/
126•rustoo•1h ago•113 comments

A History of IDEs at Google

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
432•laurentlb•5d ago•277 comments

The Emacsification of Software

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/
371•rdslw•1d ago•231 comments

Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/28/swift-bricks-to-be-installed-in-all-new-build...
84•bookofjoe•4d ago•39 comments

The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/14/1220
78•rcarmo•4h ago•48 comments

Technical Dimensions of Live Feedback in Programming Systems

https://joshuahhh.com/dims-of-feedback/
42•tobr•4d ago•6 comments
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Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•11mo ago

Comments

throwawaymaths•11mo 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•11mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•11mo 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•11mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•11mo 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.