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How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-20261029/
8•dverlaeckt80•59m ago

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rustyhancock•22m ago
One of the most remarkable aspects of physics is that Newtonian gravity calculations are quite spot on for all the parts of black holes layfolk consider important.

1. Both predict the same critical radius, now called the Schwarzschild radius.

2. Both predict a central singularity with formally infinite density in idealised collapse.

3. Both predict exactly the same finite time to fall into the singularity under equivalent idealised conditions.

4. Both give the same equation for radial free fall, using different definitions of time.

What GR added was meaning to these things (and of course precise calculations outside of very idealised scenarios and symmetric conditions).

JohnKemeny•17m ago
Is it just me, or could they have added a, say, picture of a black hole?
myrmidon•4m ago
What I find really interesting is that black holes don't really "require" infinite density; the mass density inside the event horizon never exceeds neutron star levels, and becomes in fact lower the heavier the black hole gets (=> event horizon enclosed volume grows faster than mass).

Moonshot AI asking influencers not to disclose posts as paid when promoting Kimi

https://twitter.com/elshayib_/status/2113710752741892476
1•JumpCrisscross•1m ago•0 comments

Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan to Claude developer laptops

https://doublepulsar.com/anthropic-hacked-to-deliver-remote-access-trojan-to-claude-developer-lap...
2•fk33•1m ago•0 comments

Some Polymarket user funds stolen by hackers

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/29/polymarket-reports-outage-on-international-exchange-halts-trading...
1•debo_•3m ago•0 comments

Stripe Made Agentic Payments Possible. Why Your Server Still Blocks the Agents

https://thebossmagazine.com/post/agentic-payments-ai-agents-retail-blocking/
1•Aninay•4m ago•0 comments

Lecture on exponential time hypothesis by Ryan O'Donnell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HlQGMcQWhA
1•rnbnnnn•4m ago•0 comments

Strategies Senior AI Developers Use to Deliver High-Quality Code in 2026

https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/2026/10/9-strategies-senior-ai-developers-use-to-deliver-high-qu...
1•Aninay•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Zwitch macOS Apps Switcher (free)

https://zwitch.net/
1•frnk-km•5m ago•0 comments

Learning with Errors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_with_errors
1•jonbaer•10m ago•0 comments

What inference engine and KV offload engine do you use and why?

1•malikoyv•11m ago•0 comments

OpenAI doubles ChatGPT Pro usage limits after backlash over planned 50% cut

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-doubles-chatgpt-pro-usage-li...
2•entryleveljobsc•13m ago•0 comments

Where do residential proxies come from Reddit AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/WebScrapingInsider/comments/1xf9hdj/where_do_residential_proxies_really_...
1•joinmassive•14m ago•0 comments

How a Children’s Book Got Me Reading Again

https://minhaj.pagecord.com/the-graveyard-book
1•minhajkhan1•15m ago•0 comments

Consciousness Is Not Physical

https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/consciousness/
2•enemyz0r•16m ago•0 comments

Cohere Qwen incident URL samples

https://huggingface.co/spaces/Vil-Lakera/curl-trace-explorer
1•patresh•17m ago•0 comments

Antigenic operating system for my AI agents Claude Code, open claw, codex etc.

https://github.com/Dodaios/Dodaios
1•Dodaios•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LeanCIL – Prove properties of compiled .NET code in Lean 4

https://github.com/NethermindEth/LeanCIL
1•rescendent•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Prolog-WAF – A reverse WAF logic perimeter powered by Prolog

https://prologwaf.site/
1•lokinpendawa•20m ago•0 comments

Digital radio-based train control system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Train_Control_System
1•avp210•22m ago•1 comments

Invasion of the Sexy A.I. Joke Thieves

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/ai-bots-jokes-theft-comedians.html
2•jakubmazanec•23m ago•2 comments

Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan

https://doublepulsar.com/anthropic-hacked-to-deliver-remote-access-trojan-to-claude-developer-lap...
9•bashtoni•25m ago•1 comments

Laissez Faire, Laissez Mourir – Visualizing Plutocracy

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/laissez-faire-laissez-mourir/
3•dalvrosa•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Anime Text Datasets for LLMs Training

https://github.com/muqeet-1138/anime-text-dataset
4•anitroves•29m ago•1 comments

Amazon, Alphabet, SpaceX and Meta are all to blame for the new tech stock rout

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1•__natty__•30m ago•0 comments

TornadoVM 8.0: Meet TC, TornadoVM's Own Compiler

https://www.tornadovm.org/blogs/tornadovm-8-0-0-tc-tornadovm-compiler
1•joshcsimmons•31m ago•0 comments

Unreleased Claude model turned a Linux kernel bug into a remote root exploit

https://twitter.com/intcyberdigest/status/2116081923902611934
1•rbanffy•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Stackapella, an open source web app for learning vocal harmony

https://stackapella.com/
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Show HN: Reduce: A Daily Puzzle

https://reduce.games
1•moonshot5•32m ago•0 comments

FB-cpp 1.0.0: A feature-complete modern C++ wrapper for Firebird

https://asfernandes.github.io/2026/09/04/fb-cpp-1-0-0
1•mariuz•33m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?

1•japhyr•35m ago•0 comments

Dockframe – modular USB hub compatible with Framework Expansion Cards

https://www.crowdsupply.com/hw-media-lab/dockframe
1•matthiaswh•38m ago•0 comments