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72•47thpresident•1h ago•10 comments

Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal

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49•pjmlp•1h ago•18 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

200•whoishiring•4h ago•103 comments

Clicks Communicator

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169•microflash•3h ago•119 comments

TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA

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31•Xenograph•1h ago•6 comments

FracturedJson

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437•PretzelFisch•8h ago•113 comments

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

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125•Brajeshwar•5h ago•196 comments

10 years of personal finances in plain text files

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365•wrxd•9h ago•150 comments

What you need to know before touching a video file

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211•qbow883•6d ago•138 comments

Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone

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77•ChrisArchitect•4h ago•72 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

64•whoishiring•4h ago•108 comments

Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)

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21•tosh•2h ago•1 comments

Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature

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302•WithinReason•12h ago•47 comments

C –> Java != Java –> LLM

http://www.observationalhazard.com/2025/12/c-java-java-llm.html
19•WoodenChair•5d ago•14 comments

Assorted less(1) tips

https://blog.thechases.com/posts/assorted-less-tips/
134•todsacerdoti•8h ago•29 comments

The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]

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28•vortex_ape•3h ago•1 comments

39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos

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318•Jommi•7h ago•50 comments

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams

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57•sethbannon•2h ago•58 comments

Miri: Practical Undefined Behavior Detection for Rust [pdf]

https://research.ralfj.de/papers/2026-popl-miri.pdf
49•ingve•5d ago•9 comments

List, inspect and explore OCI container images, their layers and contents

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HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark

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430•stared•10h ago•225 comments

Why users cannot create Issues directly

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694•xpe•19h ago•249 comments

Happy Public Domain Day 2026

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407•apetresc•19h ago•83 comments

ThingsBoard: Open-Source IoT Platform

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38•pretext•5d ago•5 comments

A small collection of text-only websites

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93•danielfalbo•9h ago•39 comments

One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household

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107•ayi•10h ago•65 comments

Parental controls aren't for parents

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269•beasthacker•7h ago•260 comments

A website to destroy all websites

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721•g0xA52A2A•1d ago•352 comments

Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby's growth, Open-Source Software today etc.

https://en.kaigaiiju.ch/episodes/matz2
98•kibitan•1w ago•50 comments

Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin

https://carette.xyz/posts/going_immutable_macos/
104•weird_trousers•12h ago•69 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.