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Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8
1417•Tiberium•13h ago•911 comments

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/
1513•kuberwastaken•20h ago•399 comments

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/
12•dverlaeckt80•1h ago•7 comments

Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/20/gilgamesh-by-simon-armitage-review-an-ancient-epic-...
46•benbreen•2d ago•15 comments

Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80

https://cuis.st/
127•theanonymousone•3d ago•16 comments

I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9BTbIGxLg
145•surprisetalk•1d ago•18 comments

Herdr has released native app

https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app
224•cherioo•10h ago•144 comments

Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal

https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm
147•nvmdbljstm•2d ago•13 comments

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html
301•sandslash•13h ago•111 comments

Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/artificial-analysis-v5-and-the-benchmarkers
23•6thbit•1d ago•10 comments

elect.horse

https://elect.horse/
5•solarist•1h ago•1 comments

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer
221•airinei•14h ago•15 comments

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
445•ea016•19h ago•150 comments

Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring OS/Hypervisor Experts in Europe

https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/98722
1•syrusakbary•4h ago

LLM Voice

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html
492•ibobev•20h ago•259 comments

Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

https://github.com/mottopanikeiku/doomformer
95•falperc•11h ago•30 comments

Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261026-00/?p=112797/
29•ibobev•3d ago•3 comments

Python on My Wrist

https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/python-on-my-wrist.html
54•roywashere•3d ago•6 comments

Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents

71•shong0504•19h ago•24 comments

Pico CSS is no longer maintained

https://github.com/picocss/pico/discussions/754
149•henrid•9h ago•68 comments

A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014)

https://journal.animationstudies.org/article/id/66/
123•simonebrunozzi•12h ago•29 comments

Patrick Stewart has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html
3032•j4mie•15h ago•644 comments

If IPv4 were land

https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land
292•rokostik•22h ago•409 comments

An illustrated online book on Hewlett-Packard equipment

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/27/an-illustrated-online-book-on-hewlett-packard-equipment/
21•sohkamyung•2d ago•4 comments

What we know so far about Spain train crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjo
213•ZeljkoS•1d ago•378 comments

Should a medical diagnosis reshape the past? (2025)

https://chengela.substack.com/p/should-a-medical-diagnosis-reshape
46•wyndham•12h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"

https://github.com/johncassil/dontallow
142•johncassil•15h ago•105 comments

Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan

https://doublepulsar.com/anthropic-hacked-to-deliver-remote-access-trojan-to-claude-developer-lap...
17•bashtoni•41m ago•2 comments

ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser

https://elementary.codes
106•frizlab•14h ago•31 comments

16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive

https://16colo.rs/
127•memalign•18h ago•9 comments
Open in hackernews

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/
11•dverlaeckt80•1h ago

Comments

rustyhancock•38m 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•33m ago
Is it just me, or could they have added a, say, picture of a black hole?
myrmidon•19m 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).
monster_truck•15m ago
I'd use a camera, personally
jareklupinski•8m ago
make sure you set the exposure to a negative value