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AI Book Scanning: Just What Is a Rare Book?

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/ai-book-scanning-just-what-is-a-rare-book/
1•beardyw•27s ago•0 comments

AI Firms Debate Putting Cyber Tests Online After Model Hacks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-25/ai-firms-debate-putting-cyber-tests-online-aft...
1•sbulaev•49s ago•0 comments

Why Life in Louisiana Has Become Impossible [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dSjY4j7Ak
1•pinkmuffinere•59s ago•0 comments

AI Takeover at GopherCon 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pny5TFP2r3U
1•deadprogram•1m ago•0 comments

Dolly Parton Dead: Country Music Legend and Actress Was 80

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/dolly-parton-dead-dies-country-music-1236842727/
3•coloneltcb•4m ago•0 comments

Six and a Half Million Households Quit Buying Salad in a Single Month

https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/six-and-a-half-million-households-quit-buying-salad-in-a-sin...
1•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead
6•helsinkiandrew•5m ago•0 comments

I built a leaderboard where every $1 claims 1 sq ft of real beach land

https://ranking.land/
2•calory89•7m ago•1 comments

AI and education: A watershed moment for MIT

https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/ai-and-education-watershed-moment-mit
1•tracyhenry•8m ago•0 comments

Breakfast timing associated with mortality in a large US cohort

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-026-01796-1
1•bpierre•8m ago•0 comments

Common medications may change your gut for years

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260824065605.htm
1•Noaidi•8m ago•1 comments

Granite 4.2 brings native reasoning to enterprise agents

https://research.ibm.com/blog/introducing-granite-4-2
1•bj-rn•9m ago•0 comments

Quinns Quest Reviews: Stonetop [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH5-uQj4uOA
1•doener•9m ago•0 comments

Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40

https://twitter.com/WinRAR_RARLAB/status/2092182008319386067
2•pikseladam•11m ago•0 comments

Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1
4•yboris•12m ago•0 comments

Flyway for freeloaders, rollback implemented in Python

https://aconcan.io/blog/flyway-for-freeloaders/
1•aconcan•12m ago•0 comments

We benchmarked our VS Code fork against VS Code, Cursor, Antigravity and Zed

https://hyperlaneide.com/blog/hyperlane-vs-code-cursor-antigravity-zed-benchmark
1•redbridgerock•13m ago•0 comments

Aerospace demonstrates DiskSats in low-Earth orbit

https://spacenews.com/aerospace-demonstrates-disksats-in-low-earth-orbit/
2•bushwart•13m ago•0 comments

AI Contracts Are Quietly Becoming the Best Product Documentation

https://abovethelaw.com/2026/08/ai-contracts-are-quietly-becoming-the-best-product-documentation/
1•petethomas•15m ago•0 comments

IPFS is moving beyond the sponsored gateways

https://blog.ipfs.tech/2026-08-beyond-sponsored-gateways/
1•hannahhoward•15m ago•0 comments

Diary of a Decoy

https://profane-tmesis.info/diary
1•riskone•17m ago•0 comments

Tablinum – Local-first database for the browser

https://tablinum.dev/
1•kevinak•18m ago•0 comments

Index: Building the Largest and Most Diverse Physical Dataset

https://www.figure.ai/news/introducing-index
2•pr337h4m•18m ago•0 comments

Stanford's Probability for Artificial Intelligence

https://pai.stanford.edu
1•lemonlym•19m ago•0 comments

Xyntetik Runner – a GGUF runtime in plain C that proves what it runs

https://github.com/Joakimpalm-Zen/xyntetik-runner
1•JoakimPalm-Zen•21m ago•0 comments

Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive

https://fuel-design.com/russian-criminal-tattoo-archive/
1•NaOH•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ShotSweep – visual regression testing from the command line

https://github.com/nforshifu234dev/shotsweep
1•iamnotshifu•23m ago•0 comments

Man Charged with 3 Felonies for Breaking 3D-Printed 'Decoy' Flock Camera

https://www.404media.co/man-charged-with-3-felonies-for-breaking-3d-printed-decoy-flock-camera/
15•monksy•25m ago•3 comments

The changing role of finite-state model checking

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-08-24-finite-state-future/
2•fanf2•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Query Historical Data with Time Travel (Iceberg and Spark)

https://oleander.dev/grow/querying-historical-data-with-time-travel
1•jessol•25m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590
30•raattgift•1h ago

Comments

sigmoid10•47m ago
Should be pointed out that this is a critique of common popsci journalism tropes and not a fancy new research result. Anyone who has taken a graduate level class in General Relativity would have been able to tell you the same.
kwoff•27m ago
Or read Susskind's "The Theoretical Minimum: General Relativity". For a non-spinning blackhole at least, not only is the singularity not a point, it is a surface in time, not space (as the book explains, the space and time coordinates switch places as you cross the event horizon).
Certhas•45m ago
As is nicely visualised by it's Penrose Diagram, e.g.

https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/penrose_schw.gif

shagie•32m ago
Some PBS Space Time episodes featuring the Penrose Diagram (in order - the first two are from 9 years ago, the last from 6)

What Happens at the Event Horizon? - https://youtu.be/mht-1c4wc0Q

Escape The Kugelblitz Challenge - https://youtu.be/v3hd3AI2CAA

Mapping the Multiverse - https://youtu.be/4v9A9hQUcBQ

Eridanus2•43m ago
Contains 08 rendered frames of a free falling observer's view while crossing the event horizon. This is not reddit, but plz someone animate it :}
ck2•40m ago
what's really going to blow your mind is

while you probably assumed or knew spinning black holes move space around them

spinning black holes also move TIME around them

* https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady9068

so in theory a spinning black hole that's been around for billions of years has a time drag around it in a path that is billions of years old

(no we can't navigate it because yes that would be time travel to the past and violates causality)

black holes are just so weird with every new detail even more weird

oddly more interesting to me to try to grasp neutron stars (densest objects before black holes and are still visible, our entire solar system in a neutron star would be only 10km 6.2miles across)

srean•8m ago
Consider the magnetar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar

"A magnetar's 10^10 tesla field, by contrast, has an energy density of 4.0×1025 J/m3, with an E/c2 mass density more than 10,000 times that of lead."

jamesforestwest•36m ago
Interesting work. The idea that the singularity is a surface rather than a point was unexpected to me even though it seems to follow logically from the theory of relativity. I wonder how this reconciles with quantum gravity. If the singularity is truly a two-dimensional surface, perhaps it's related to Hawking radiation and the thermodynamics of black holes?
dekdrop•20m ago
How does one descr blackhole to a non-physicist without losing much accuracy? I just it of a very-dense-object.
icepush•19m ago
A one-way door in space.
crooked-v•18m ago
The problem there is that not even the physicists completely agree on the details, because we know black holes definitely exist, but every explanation breaks one rule or another that should apply from different disciplines. It's part of why they get so much ongoing attention.
lazide•14m ago
Black holes are essentially where our knowledge of spacetime breaks, and we can’t even see into it. It’s hard to really concretely know much about it directly.