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Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-or-black-hole-stars-astronomers-spar-over-webb-telescopes-little-red-dots-20260914/
22•jandrewrogers•23h ago

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debo_•55m ago
Soundgarden was apparently prophetic with their hit song "Black Hole Sun."
TimeBearingDown•22m ago
May Chris Cornell rest in peace. He should have seen this.
jahnu•25m ago
One thing worth noting is our popular notion of what a star seems to be is quite different from what astronomers have.

One example, Canis Majoris has a radius of about 1420 solar radii. But its mass is roughly 17±8 times the mass of the Sun and therefore an average density of 5.33 to 8.38 mg/m3. “It is over 100.000 times less dense than Earth’s atmosphere at sea level.”

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

https://nineplanets.org/vy-canis-majoris/

usrnm•16m ago
My layman definition of what a star is is "it's somewhere in the sky and it gives off light". The word "density" wouldn't even come to my mind
dpriddle•12m ago
Yes and no. It’s fluffy on the outside, but at the core it’s likely denser than our sun.

Laya the open source version of Jev

https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/
353•nandakishor_ml•4h ago•71 comments

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
48•ksec•1h ago•28 comments

A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum

https://github.com/mindbox77/zxdesk
24•graemep•1h ago•6 comments

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
595•ereiamjh•5h ago•357 comments

Tin: full-text search for Postgres

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-tin
31•ksec•1h ago•3 comments

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html
434•emigre•9h ago•162 comments

“The Secret Life of Circuits” is here

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/the-secret-life-of-circuits-is-here
156•surprisetalk•3d ago•36 comments

Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

https://medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-about-their-own-papers-3d2e04e5dee0
22•stefanpie•2d ago•4 comments

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
947•theanonymousone•20h ago•518 comments

Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-or-black-hole-stars-astronomers-spar-over-webb-telesco...
22•jandrewrogers•23h ago•5 comments

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

https://onionfutures.com/
272•z-mach9•10h ago•91 comments

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio
220•nsoonhui•8h ago•120 comments

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-...
206•num42•8h ago•165 comments

Learning Another Language May Be One of the Best Ways to Keep Your Brain Healthy

https://theconversation.com/learning-another-language-may-be-one-of-the-best-ways-to-keep-your-br...
22•nativeit•43m ago•5 comments

AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult

https://bsky.app/profile/segyges.bsky.social/post/3mvom4b4dn22q
16•olalonde•31m ago•2 comments

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

https://try.cloudflare.com/
766•jcbhmr•1d ago•299 comments

Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201337119
35•austinallegro•2d ago•16 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
544•joeriddles•1d ago•356 comments

You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/objgit-packfiles/
85•evacchi•2d ago•23 comments

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
106•lioeters•12h ago•22 comments

Saving another 100TB of RAM

https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/
404•f311a•20h ago•87 comments

Science Is Open Software

https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/
125•jegp•12h ago•46 comments

From Stonemasons to Carpenters

https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/from-stonemasons-to-carpenters
31•azhenley•1d ago•4 comments

Why building a Rust LSP is hard

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/why-lsp-is-hard/
109•agluszak•2d ago•44 comments

Ctenophores: Wonders of Biology

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ctenophores-arent-just-beautiful-theyre-biological-wonders-20260916/
48•randomImmigrant•2d ago•6 comments

NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model

https://newsroom.usra.edu/usra-contributes-planetary-science-expertise-to-nasa-ibm-lunar-foundati...
47•noobplus•10h ago•5 comments

The first new cat species discovered in 100 years

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-the-first-new-cat-species-discovered-in-1...
310•ohjeez•1d ago•119 comments

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

https://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design
166•maxall4•16h ago•114 comments

OpenJev

https://openjev.com/
655•ilreb•1d ago•275 comments

Goroutine Leak Profiles

https://go.dev/blog/goroutine-leak-profiles
54•torutofu•3d ago•6 comments