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Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/opinion/europe-train-travel.html
15•mitchbob•6h ago

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mitchbob•6h ago
https://archive.ph/2025.05.18-170108/https://www.nytimes.com...
kylehotchkiss•3h ago
The distance between the US coasts is very roughly Amsterdam to Ankara. How often are Europeans doing this journey by train? Coast to coast travel is very common in USA.

Also the idea of scheduling a trip and then a not uncommon European transit strike cancelling it sounds like just what the USA needs. I am delighted our country has defended the rights of interstate travel because I was in Asia during Covid and I quickly realized how scary it was to be on the other side of the state barrier from the airport when interstate travel was essentially halted

Arguments about European transport are tired and fail to account for the geography and population distribution differences between our continents.

watwut•3h ago
> Also the idea of scheduling a trip and then a not uncommon European transit strike cancelling it

Not nearly as common as you make it to be. More like ... incredibly rare.

Also, Americans fly long distances rather then driving 24 hours.

clayhacks•2h ago
And how often are flights delayed in America for worse reasons? Like that’s gotta much more common than rail strikes
lovich•3h ago
Who the fuck commonly goes on cross coast drives?

The only times I’ve heard of this are when people with an extreme fear of flying, driving from nyc to Florida for a work event or vice versa, and actual once in a lifetime planned trips that are a vacation in of themselves

Designing interaction, not interfaces (2004)

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Designing-interaction%2C-not-interfaces-Beaudouin-Lafon/409388ab6a828604784d1c14454dc9ad7a87ff9d
1•RetroTechie•36s ago•1 comments

Landauer's Principle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
1•simonpure•1m ago•0 comments

Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, study

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-emit-faint-extinguishes-death.html
1•pseudolus•4m ago•0 comments

China begins assembling its supercomputer in space

https://www.theverge.com/news/669157/china-begins-assembling-its-supercomputer-in-space
1•turadg•6m ago•2 comments

AI job interview: Job hunting was already hard. Then came glitching HR robots

https://slate.com/life/2025/05/jobs-ai-job-hiring-character-interview.html
1•spenvo•8m ago•0 comments

Benchmarking Crimes Meet Formal Verification

https://microkerneldude.org/2025/04/27/benchmarking-crimes-meet-formal-verification/
1•snvzz•12m ago•0 comments

The Case for AGI by 2030

https://80000hours.org/agi/guide/when-will-agi-arrive/
2•doitLP•13m ago•1 comments

The Universe Is 'Suspiciously' Like a Computer Simulation, Physicist Says

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-universe-is-suspiciously-like-a-computer-simulation-physicist-says
1•cpncrunch•15m ago•0 comments

WebCheckr Releses New tool for seeing if your site needs improvement

https://webcheckr.tech
3•kowskiiocode•22m ago•0 comments

It pays to use AI on the sly at work

https://www.ft.com/content/f8cac59b-b467-4c83-86fe-6fae065559b5
1•alceufc•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bluesky Analytics

https://theblue.social/analytics
2•hboon•24m ago•1 comments

AI Hedge Fund

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3•fdefitte•32m ago•0 comments

Consequences of the Moosbauer-Poole Algorithms

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05896
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https://mintlify.com/blog/the-value-of-llms-txt-hype-or-real
1•mooreds•34m ago•0 comments

The Role My Parents Never Expected: Raising My Sister's Kids

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/magazine/grandparents-families-children-kids.html
1•mooreds•35m ago•0 comments

Vieta Jumping

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieta_jumping
2•redbell•36m ago•0 comments

A New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn't Use A.I

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin-students-cheating.html
9•ripe•38m ago•0 comments

Reservoir Sampling

https://elly.town/d/blog/2025-05-17-reservoir-sampling.txt
1•bitbasher•40m ago•0 comments

Obviously, OpenAI will monetize with ads

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2•mfiguiere•40m ago•0 comments

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1•redbell•48m ago•0 comments

Who first described the "fence-post error?"

https://web.archive.org/web/20160305221341/http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~moniot/Opinions/fencepost-error-history.shtml
1•scrlk•50m ago•0 comments

Ancient reptile footprints are rewriting the history of when animals evolved

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California vanity license plate applications with reasons for rejection

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38•networked•1h ago•18 comments

Rust success story that killed Rust within a company

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/s/507ZhSXJZ9
3•dabinat•1h ago•0 comments

Can You Trust Code Copilots? Evaluating LLMs from a Code Security Perspec

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10494
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Evaluate Any Model from the HuggingFace Hub on the ImageNet on Free Colab GPUs

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2•ChiefNotAClue•1h ago•0 comments

Ancient trick to calculate any square root

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXveVqBxFow
2•gavide•1h ago•0 comments