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Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN

https://wikihack.netlify.app
202•aizk•5h ago•63 comments

Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

https://hackerbooks.org
1409•roansh•18h ago•235 comments

Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/10/postgres-19-is-late-and-its-ais-fault.html
482•soheilpro•2d ago•302 comments

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
2592•karpathy•1d ago•572 comments

F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

https://fosscomics.com/posts/13.%20BSD%20Unix%20Part%203%20-%20The%20Beginning%20of%20BSD%20Unix/
132•joonehur•8h ago•15 comments

Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span

https://www.science.org/content/article/bones-may-release-proteins-slow-aging-and-extend-life-span
104•EA-3167•9h ago•22 comments

Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

413•LecroJS•15h ago•541 comments

Show HN: I've updated my Linux System Call website and API

https://syscall.sh/
12•guitmz•1h ago•1 comments

From Charlemagne to the Kitchen Boy: Reading the Hamburg Rathaus

https://alsterrunde.com/from-charlemagne-to-the-kitchen-boy-reading-the-hamburg-rathaus/
37•mertbio•4h ago•3 comments

Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2026/mystery-of-60-second-fluctuations-in...
130•_Microft•1d ago•57 comments

Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed

https://trigger.dev/blog/security-incident-nov-2026
96•anurag•9h ago•37 comments

Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed

https://github.com/raphlinus/nibnib
149•raphlinus•3d ago•25 comments

Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/02/05/
123•luu•5d ago•24 comments

China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48

https://labs.cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/csa-research-note-china-ai-export-controls-announ...
43•jonnybgood•3h ago•30 comments

Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics

https://tibleiz.net/copper/
170•bogdanoff_2•2d ago•95 comments

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff
251•FabCH•21h ago•71 comments

New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261025073051.htm
86•stevenalowe•3d ago•36 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
379•luu•1d ago•294 comments

OccupySaaS

https://occupysaas.com/
290•misswaterfairy•10h ago•170 comments

Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39302
143•Anon84•21h ago•71 comments

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

https://outcrop.rocks/
209•headsupernova•3d ago•47 comments

One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0
158•croes•2d ago•51 comments

Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/01/mathematics-has-changed-lets-act-like-it/
318•smilelamp•16h ago•355 comments

Radiation Map of the World

https://radiaverse.com/
179•slater•4d ago•50 comments

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_j...
494•entryleveljobsc•20h ago•166 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2

https://kevs3d.co.uk/phoria2/
93•kevs3d•2d ago•17 comments

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/domain-hacks-with-unusual-unicode-characters/
88•n_plus_1_acc•1d ago•56 comments

The She-Wolves of Jülich

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/she-wolves-julich
29•Thevet•1d ago•6 comments

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothi...
826•ecares•1d ago•210 comments

Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter

https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2026/oct/seoul-291026.shtml
183•gmays•18h ago•60 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.