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Filing the corners off my MacBooks

https://kentwalters.com/posts/corners/
773•normanvalentine•11h ago•392 comments

Optimal Strategy for Connect 4

https://2swap.github.io/WeakC4/explanation/
15•marvinborner•2d ago•5 comments

Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

https://playstarfling.com
153•iceberger2001•2d ago•47 comments

1D Chess

https://rowan441.github.io/1dchess/chess.html
802•burnt-resistor•17h ago•142 comments

Artemis II safely splashes down

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/artemis-ii-splashdown-return/
868•areoform•9h ago•275 comments

Installing every* Firefox extension

https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension
377•RohanAdwankar•11h ago•46 comments

Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr71lkzv49po
329•neversaydie•14h ago•183 comments

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

https://apnews.com/article/aadam-jacobs-collection-concerts-internet-archive-chicago-b1c9c4466a2d...
45•geox•3d ago•2 comments

AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
313•hmokiguess•14h ago•207 comments

WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2026-April/009561.html
472•zx2c4•17h ago•138 comments

Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice

https://github.com/Keychron/Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design
371•stingraycharles•16h ago•111 comments

20 years on AWS and never not my job

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-years-on-AWS-and-never-not-my-job.html
136•cperciva•3h ago•19 comments

Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources

https://taintedcoders.com/
80•GenericCanadian•2d ago•14 comments

Flashback to a time when government reports were works of art

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/08/transportation-library-northwestern/
20•NaOH•2d ago•6 comments

CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/cpuid_site_hijacked/
324•pashadee•19h ago•92 comments

JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware

https://github.com/callumlocke/json-formatter
215•jkl5xx•14h ago•109 comments

A practical guide for setting up Zettelkasten method in Obsidian

https://desktopcommander.app/blog/zettelkasten-obsidian/
49•rkrizanovskis•2d ago•23 comments

Productive Procrastination

https://www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl/blog/productive-procrastination/
18•maxvij•3h ago•6 comments

Helium is hard to replace

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/helium-is-hard-to-replace
310•JumpCrisscross•18h ago•213 comments

The Seasons Are Wrong

https://kentwalters.com/posts/seasons/
24•NikxDa•4h ago•30 comments

Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd

https://moooo.farm/
10•pabs3•2h ago•2 comments

Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool

https://github.com/retlehs/quien/
43•bretthopper•5h ago•11 comments

The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bra-and-girdle-maker-that-fashioned-the-impossible-for-nasa/
88•sohkamyung•1d ago•4 comments

Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/italo-calvino-traveller-world-unce...
71•lermontov•9h ago•14 comments

Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/watgo-a-webassembly-toolkit-for-go/
95•ibobev•14h ago•7 comments

Investigating Split Locks on x86-64

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/investigating-split-locks-on-x86
54•ingve•3d ago•18 comments

What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical

https://ubuntu.com/blog/risc-v-101-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-mean-for-canonical
129•fork-bomber•2d ago•89 comments

Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

https://twill.ai
67•danoandco•16h ago•63 comments

A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it

https://ericwbailey.website/published/a-compelling-title-that-is-cryptic-enough-to-get-you-to-tak...
228•mooreds•16h ago•122 comments

Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989

https://dfarq.homeip.net/intel-486-cpu-announced-april-10-1989/
166•jnord•21h ago•155 comments
Open in hackernews

Right-Truncatable Prime Counter

https://github.com/EbodShojaei/Right-Truncatable-Primes
9•rainmans•10mo ago

Comments

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