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Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-blood-boosts-alzheimer-diagnosis-accuracy.html
72•wglb•1h ago•17 comments

Terence Tao, at 8 years old [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smpy/1984-clements.pdf
43•gurjeet•12h ago•2 comments

I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270

https://dork.dev/posts/2026-02-20-ported-coreboot/
94•todsacerdoti•4h ago•15 comments

The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verification
1286•oldnetguy•13h ago•1004 comments

Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS

https://lyra.horse/x86css/
17•rebane2001•1h ago•8 comments

UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025)

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/380883-unix99-a-unix-like-os-for-the-ti-994a/
158•marcodiego•8h ago•50 comments

Show HN: Steerling-8B, a language model that can explain any token it generates

https://www.guidelabs.ai/post/steerling-8b-base-model-release/
41•adebayoj•3h ago•6 comments

Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons

https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/william-shatner-announces-all-star-metal-album
130•mhb•3h ago•55 comments

Making Wolfram Tech Available as a Foundation Tool for LLM Systems

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/02/making-wolfram-tech-available-as-a-foundation-tool-fo...
95•surprisetalk•6h ago•51 comments

FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/
297•varankinv•6h ago•247 comments

A simple web we own

https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2026/02/21/a_simple_web_we_own.html
196•speckx•12h ago•132 comments

“Car Wash” test with 53 models

https://opper.ai/blog/car-wash-test
122•felix089•8h ago•132 comments

Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app

https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog
205•levkk•12h ago•47 comments

Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/baby-chicks-pass-the-bouba-kiki-test-challenging-a-the...
8•beardyw•4d ago•1 comments

I Turned Off ChatGPT's Memory

https://every.to/also-true-for-humans/why-i-turned-off-chatgpt-s-memory
12•Garbage•2h ago•2 comments

Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI

https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/
1111•adius•16h ago•607 comments

The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/02/23/the-challenges-of-porting-shufflepuck-cafe-t...
56•homarp•7h ago•9 comments

What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/02/23/ubuntu-rustnation/
100•zdw•11h ago•129 comments

Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair

https://www.ifixit.com/News/115722/iowa-farmers-are-leading-the-fight-for-repair
47•gnabgib•3h ago•6 comments

SIM (YC X25) Is Hiring the Best Engineers in San Francisco

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sim/jobs/Rj8TVRM-software-engineer-platform
1•waleedlatif1•7h ago

What is f(x) ≤ g(x) + O(1)? Inequalities With Asymptotics

https://jamesoswald.dev/posts/bigoinequality/
33•ibobev•3d ago•23 comments

The rise of eyes began with just one

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/science/evolution-vertebrate-eye.html
22•marojejian•10h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs)

https://github.com/vignesh07/babyshark
73•eigen-vector•7h ago•34 comments

Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)

https://sowbot.co.uk/
137•Sabrees•12h ago•40 comments

Lords of the Ring

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/lords-of-the-ring-joshua-hunt-cultural-politics-sumo-wrestling/
19•lermontov•3d ago•1 comments

You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer

https://twitter.com/BenjaminBadejo/status/2025987544853188836
137•bundie•6h ago•106 comments

Why Your Load Balancer Still Sends Traffic to Dead Backends

https://singh-sanjay.com/2026/01/12/health-checks-client-vs-server-side-lb.html
22•singhsanjay12•5h ago•13 comments

ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/asml-unveils-euv-light-source-advance-that-could-yield-50-mor...
292•pieterr•10h ago•83 comments

Writing code is cheap now

https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/code-is-cheap/
85•swolpers•10h ago•122 comments

NIST Seeking Public Comment on AI Agent Security (Deadline: March 9, 2026)

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/01/08/2026-00206/request-for-information-regarding...
32•ascarola•2h ago•7 comments
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

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

Comments

throwawaymaths•9mo 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•9mo ago
i dont think smaller radixes make the problem more interesting. the problem is interesting because base 10 has a large branching factor
throwawaymaths•9mo 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•9mo ago
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
thechao•9mo 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.