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The size of 3I/ATLAS from non-gravitational acceleration

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18341
1•bikenaga•2h ago

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Abstract: "The third macroscopic interstellar object detected in the solar system recently passed through perihelion, with the best-fitting models of its trajectory now featuring non-gravitational accelerations. We assess how much mass loss is required to produce plausible non-gravitational acceleration solutions and compare with estimates of the mass loss. We find that they are consistent when the nucleus of 3I/ATLAS is around 1 km in diameter. For a recent solution with a time lag in the acceleration from Eubanks et al, we find diameters between 820 meters and 1050 meters, assuming an outgassing asymmetry factor ζ=0.5 and a density of the comet nucleus ρ=0.5 g cm−3. The limits on the diameter scale as (ζ/ρ)1/3. Substantial extrapolation is required in general to compare non-gravitational accelerations to mass loss rates, so reliable estimates of the mass loss rate at other stages of the comet's trajectory will substantially reduce the systematic uncertainty in this estimate."

Cultural Institutions Are Erasing Christianity

https://thecritic.co.uk/cultural-institutions-are-erasing-christianity/
1•barry-cotter•4m ago•0 comments

New UK home-maintenance membership (waitlist open)

1•mykelcodes•5m ago•0 comments

Token-Count-Based Batching: Faster, Cheaper Embedding Inference for Queries

https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/engineering/token-count-based-batching-faster-cheaper-embedd...
1•fzliu•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We built a native bridge to make WebRTC calls reliable in hybrid apps

1•Mincirkel•7m ago•0 comments

Espruino: Embedded JavaScript,dev boards and smart watch

https://www.espruino.com
2•jgrizou•8m ago•1 comments

US targets former EU commissioner with visa bans over alleged censorship

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-targets-former-eu-commissioner-activists-with-visa-ba...
3•amarcheschi•9m ago•1 comments

Macroni – open-source DSL for human-like macroing

https://github.com/srschreiber/macroni
1•srschreiber•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I automated Warren Buffett's brain on Poe. It's uncomfortably accurate

https://poe.com/BuffettlyAI
1•simullab•18m ago•2 comments

Design Patterns for Decentralized Protocols (2020) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDrdgk1L-ww
1•teleforce•21m ago•0 comments

Scientists Unlock a New Way to Hear the Brain's Hidden Language

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-unlock-a-new-way-to-hear-the-brains-hidden-language/
1•andsoitis•24m ago•0 comments

Piling Up Sheets / the face in the soup bowl

https://jens.mooseyard.com/1995/08/23/piling-up-sheets-/-the-face-in-the-soup-bowl/
1•andsoitis•26m ago•0 comments

Compiler Explorer

https://godbolt.org
1•andsoitis•26m ago•0 comments

CASA: Cross-Attention via Self-Attention

https://kyutai.org/casa
2•swyx•27m ago•0 comments

US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints

https://apnews.com/article/state-department-trump-immigration-rubio-visas-87c8a4692f3184e4f83fdd8...
8•c420•31m ago•1 comments

Shittycodingagent.ai: There are many shitty coding agents, but this one is mine

https://shittycodingagent.ai/
1•the_mitsuhiko•32m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's your current agentic coding setup?

1•Icheler•34m ago•1 comments

How changing your diet could help save the world

https://news.ubc.ca/2025/12/how-changing-your-diet-could-help-save-the-world/
2•geox•34m ago•2 comments

We Must Seize the Means of Compute

https://thompson2026.com/blog/seize-the-means-of-compute/
2•NickForLiberty•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: qckfx – Record your iOS simulator sessions, replay them as tests

1•chw9e•40m ago•0 comments

P2B Modification Guide

https://tipperlinne.com/p2bmod.html
1•p_ing•41m ago•0 comments

Move over Spotify. It's 311 Wrapped

https://www.311wrapped.com/
1•eltokh7•41m ago•0 comments

An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20251223/
2•zdw•42m ago•0 comments

Renewables lead by solar and wind overtook coal in the first half of 2025

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-mid-year-insights-2025/
1•QueensGambit•48m ago•0 comments

Terawatt whitepaper: a blueprint for fleet-scale EV charging [pdf]

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/659d87f22f67fd9bbaac94a7/694a73fd82319bfdb74fc546_terawatt-whi...
2•terawattinfra•49m ago•0 comments

Against SemVer

https://www.natemeyvis.com/against-semver/
1•Theaetetus•50m ago•1 comments

Car Payments Now Average More Than $750 a Month. Enter the 100-Month Car Loan

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/car-payments-now-average-more-than-750-a-month-enter-the-100-m...
3•bookofjoe•50m ago•1 comments

Complexity Ceilings and Licensing Wars: My 2026 Predictions

https://johnjames.blog/posts/complexity-ceilings-and-licensing-wars-my-2026-predictions
1•johnjames4214•55m ago•0 comments

Is Northern Virginia Still the Least Reliable AWS Region?

https://statusgator.com/blog/aws-least-reliable-region-in-2025/
14•colinbartlett•55m ago•1 comments

People as Files

https://fakepixels.substack.com/p/people-as-files
1•walterbell•56m ago•0 comments

Dronage Terminal: a terminal based drone workstation

https://github.com/boorch/dronage-terminal
1•anigbrowl•57m ago•0 comments