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Hacker News Made of Primes

51 points by keepamovin 10mo ago

smlacy 10mo ago
I don't get it. What am I looking at?
- ramon156 10mo ago
  > The idea was to deconstruct Hacker News and view it through a different lens -- not time or score, but the fundamental, dynamic of prime numbers. Even after this comment I did not get it until I checked the repo[0]. It seems like it's only posts with a prime number ID Also, the "Why?" does not explain why. It's a what/how. [0]: https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news
  - ggggffggggg 10mo ago
    > It's "useless", perhaps, but I find it fun! Reason enough I’d say.
- jtanderson 10mo ago
  The documentation is here: https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news Basically only HN items with prime IDs and with filters on different classes of primes.
- d-lisp 10mo ago
  Post investigation, I can say that it shows in an ordered manner hackernews posts whose IDs are prime. No ?
- Ackchyually2 10mo ago
  North Korean karma farmer posting non-sensical content in order to build up reputation for the next heist.
hk__2 10mo ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404099
- tomhow 10mo ago
  If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
  - deleted 10mo ago
    [deleted]
varispeed 10mo ago
Finally a website with prime content.
keepamovin 10mo ago
Thanks for the front page! This "web art" project views HN through primes, not time or score. Tech: BigQuery dataset -> Node.js ETL -> 2.7M prime items packed into sharded SQLite (~500MB) -> queried client-side via sqlite3.wasm. No server. Fun discoveries while building this: - Only 7 Mersenne primes and 5 Fermat primes exist in HN's entire range - Exactly 781 palindromic prime (but only ~760 in HN because some of those primes must not have items, unknown why), largest being ID 9,989,899. Why so few? Even-digit palindromes are always divisible by 11, so palindromic primes can only have odd digit counts (1,3,5,7 digits). We've captured ALL palindromic prime HN items that will ever exist until HN IDs hit 100M+! The ζ logo = Riemann Zeta function, deeply tied to prime distribution. "Live Mode": The last page fetches from the live HN API and mines primes client-side, bridging the static past to the live present. Source: https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news CloudFlare Static mirror: https://falling-king-6f50.cris7fe.workers.dev https://falling-king-6f50.cris7fe.workers.dev Why? I wanted to create a mirror of Hacker News that ignores time and popularity, and organizes the history of the tech industry purely by mathematical property. A way to explore the ancient and long history of HN through a filter that might surface interesting things. Hope you enjoy the beige!
- delichon 10mo ago
  Why?
  - keepamovin 10mo ago
    For fun!
    - delichon 10mo ago
      Good enough.
- omoikane 10mo ago
  Does it fetch the whole database and filter the results on client side? Because it seems like it would download 54 sqlite shards to show the few entries available for Mersenne and Fermat primes. It costs 40+ seconds of time and ~172MB of bandwidth. A cheaper option might be to generate the prime numbers first and then just fetch the shards it needs. Other than that, I thought it was an interesting way of sampling the news as the time delta grow further apart between each item.
metabagel 10mo ago
What is a “prime” ID?
- beardyw 10mo ago
  Every post and submission has a unique numeric id. Check the URL. Prime refers to prime numbers
  - metabagel 10mo ago
    Thanks!
lapcat 10mo ago
Shouldn't this be a Show HN post? And how many of these self-promoting fake HN mockups do we need from the same person? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=dosaygo-studio.github.io&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- onraglanroad 10mo ago
  6 seems like a perfect number.
  - keepamovin 10mo ago
    In fact, the smallest perfect number.
- deleted 10mo ago
  [deleted]
thih9 10mo ago
Last page with most recent content is, at the moment: https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/prime-news/index.html?p=93193 https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/prime-news/index.html?p=931...
- keepamovin 10mo ago
  Thanks! Now I get: https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/prime-news/index.html?p=93194 https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/prime-news/index.html?p=931... (the next page) and interestingly the newest prime was 42 seconds old with a title of [delayed] - someone's delay setting I guess.

51 points by keepamovin 10mo ago

smlacy 10mo ago

I don't get it. What am I looking at?

ramon156 10mo ago
> The idea was to deconstruct Hacker News and view it through a different lens -- not time or score, but the fundamental, dynamic of prime numbers. Even after this comment I did not get it until I checked the repo[0]. It seems like it's only posts with a prime number ID Also, the "Why?" does not explain why. It's a what/how. [0]: https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news
- ggggffggggg 10mo ago
  > It's "useless", perhaps, but I find it fun! Reason enough I’d say.
jtanderson 10mo ago
The documentation is here: https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news Basically only HN items with prime IDs and with filters on different classes of primes.
d-lisp 10mo ago
Post investigation, I can say that it shows in an ordered manner hackernews posts whose IDs are prime. No ?
Ackchyually2 10mo ago
North Korean karma farmer posting non-sensical content in order to build up reputation for the next heist.

hk__2 10mo ago

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404099

tomhow 10mo ago
If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- deleted 10mo ago
  [deleted]

varispeed 10mo ago

Finally a website with prime content.

keepamovin 10mo ago

Thanks for the front page! This "web art" project views HN through primes, not time or score. Tech: BigQuery dataset -> Node.js ETL -> 2.7M prime items packed into sharded SQLite (~500MB) -> queried client-side via sqlite3.wasm. No server. Fun discoveries while building this: - Only 7 Mersenne primes and 5 Fermat primes exist in HN's entire range - Exactly 781 palindromic prime (but only ~760 in HN because some of those primes must not have items, unknown why), largest being ID 9,989,899. Why so few? Even-digit palindromes are always divisible by 11, so palindromic primes can only have odd digit counts (1,3,5,7 digits). We've captured ALL palindromic prime HN items that will ever exist until HN IDs hit 100M+! The ζ logo = Riemann Zeta function, deeply tied to prime distribution. "Live Mode": The last page fetches from the live HN API and mines primes client-side, bridging the static past to the live present. Source: https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news CloudFlare Static mirror: https://falling-king-6f50.cris7fe.workers.dev https://falling-king-6f50.cris7fe.workers.dev Why? I wanted to create a mirror of Hacker News that ignores time and popularity, and organizes the history of the tech industry purely by mathematical property. A way to explore the ancient and long history of HN through a filter that might surface interesting things. Hope you enjoy the beige!

delichon 10mo ago
Why?
- keepamovin 10mo ago
  For fun!
  - delichon 10mo ago
    Good enough.
omoikane 10mo ago
Does it fetch the whole database and filter the results on client side? Because it seems like it would download 54 sqlite shards to show the few entries available for Mersenne and Fermat primes. It costs 40+ seconds of time and ~172MB of bandwidth. A cheaper option might be to generate the prime numbers first and then just fetch the shards it needs. Other than that, I thought it was an interesting way of sampling the news as the time delta grow further apart between each item.

metabagel 10mo ago

What is a “prime” ID?

beardyw 10mo ago
Every post and submission has a unique numeric id. Check the URL. Prime refers to prime numbers
- metabagel 10mo ago
  Thanks!

lapcat 10mo ago

Shouldn't this be a Show HN post? And how many of these self-promoting fake HN mockups do we need from the same person? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=dosaygo-studio.github.io&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

onraglanroad 10mo ago
6 seems like a perfect number.
- keepamovin 10mo ago
  In fact, the smallest perfect number.
deleted 10mo ago
[deleted]

thih9 10mo ago

Last page with most recent content is, at the moment: https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/prime-news/index.html?p=93193 https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/prime-news/index.html?p=931...

keepamovin 10mo ago
Thanks! Now I get: https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/prime-news/index.html?p=93194 https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/prime-news/index.html?p=931... (the next page) and interestingly the newest prime was 42 seconds old with a title of [delayed] - someone's delay setting I guess.