prime-news

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

The documentation is here: https://github.com/DOSAYGO-STUDIO/prime-news Basically only HN items with prime IDs and with filters on different classes of primes.

> 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

Wow, thanks for the front page, HN! I'm thrilled you're enjoying this little "web art" project. 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. It's "useless", perhaps, but I find it fun! Few tech details for those curious: - Data Source: The public Google BigQuery dataset (bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full). I did not scrape HN. - ETL: A Node.js script ran a Sieve of Eratosthenes up to the current max ID (~46M) to find all the primes. It then processed the ~7GB of raw JSON, extracted the ~2.7M prime items, and packed them into sharded SQLite databases. The final repo size is only ~500MB. - Frontend: This is a fully static site with no server backend. It uses sqlite3.wasm to load the specific database shard for the page you're viewing (e.