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Classic rail routes through the Alps reopen

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/jul/10/classic-rail-routes-through-alps-reopen-austria-switzerland-italy
1•divbzero•6h ago

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dlcarrier•6h ago
I live near a railyard that is almost at sea level, but it it's less than 70 miles from an over 7,000 ft mountain pass, so they keep some pretty intense snow removal equipment in the rail yard, when its not in use.

This is in California, where the highest point of the mountain pass averages tens of feet of snow, but most years are less than that, with one or two years every decade making up for it in excess precipitation. Having a huge difference between mean and median precipitation means that most years are in drought, and during the ones that aren't everything floods twice, once when it rains and again when the tremendous snowpack melts.

Anyway, the extreme snowpacks mean that the rail company has to be prepared with equally extreme equipment. They don't just have snowplows, but snowblowers wider than the locomotive its attached to. To make them even scarier looking, the body is painted black, with the blades painted bright red. It looks like the circular maw of some kind of eldritch abomination. I suppose they want it to look as intimidating as it is dangerous.

If you want to see one, do an image search for "union pacific rotary snowblower". They are even more intimidating in real life.

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1•rashmisingh_s26•2m ago•0 comments

Do we need deterministic AI?

1•createdbymason•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt few years old project and now it covers my expenses

https://www.hextaui.com/
1•preetsuthar17•12m ago•0 comments

The Secret Group Chats Where the Rich Score Seats on Private Jets

https://www.wsj.com/style/private-jet-group-chats-whatsapp-f2785468
1•edward•15m ago•0 comments

Free YouTube Thumbnail Tester

https://www.thumbnailtester.app/
1•willy158•18m ago•0 comments

PLDI 2025 coverage released: over 200 talks

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwG9512Wm7jSS6Iqshz4Dpg
1•matt_d•19m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What techniques do you use to remember complex concepts and theories?

3•anonymzz•21m ago•1 comments

SEO Is Dead. Long Live Geo

https://substack.gauravvohra.com/p/search-is-dead-long-live-llms-winning-in-the-era-of-llms-ai-overviews-and-geo
2•gauravvohra•35m ago•0 comments

The day someone created 184 billion Bitcoin (2020)

https://decrypt.co/39750/184-billion-bitcoin-anonymous-creator
3•lawrenceyan•41m ago•0 comments

Mill Build Tool v1.0.0 Release Highlights

https://mill-build.org/blog/13-mill-build-tool-v1-0-0.html
2•lihaoyi•46m ago•0 comments

Pufferlib: Simplifying reinforcement learning for complex game environments

https://github.com/PufferAI/PufferLib
1•anjneymidha•48m ago•0 comments

Energy costs are rising. This state says tech companies must pay more

4•1vuio0pswjnm7•49m ago•1 comments

Giant, flightless bird is next target for de-extinction company Biosciences

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/science/giant-moa-colossal-biosciences
2•lastdong•50m ago•0 comments

Kira (Short AI-Assisted Film on Human Cloning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx8rMzlG29Q
2•quantisan•54m ago•1 comments

America's fastest-growing suburbs are about to get expensive

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/417892/suburbs-sunbelt-housing-affordability-yimby
10•littlexsparkee•56m ago•7 comments

Longform text has become iconic — almost like an emoji

https://www.monarchwadia.com/pages/LlmsAreTelepathy.html
1•monarchwadia•59m ago•1 comments

Bitcoin Mining Costs Soar as Hashrate Hits Records: TheMinerMag

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/06/16/bitcoin-mining-costs-soar-as-hashrate-hits-records-theminermag
1•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

The Cost of AI Reliance

https://codebytom.blog/2025/07/09/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-reliance/
1•gpi•1h ago•0 comments

Phishing for Gemini: Google Gemini G-Suite Prompt Injection Vulnerability

https://0din.ai/blog/phishing-for-gemini
1•GenAIbughunter•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Keep up with the world without information overload

https://www.a01ai.com/
2•vincentyyy•1h ago•2 comments

Bitwarden MCP server secures AI access to your passwords

https://nerds.xyz/2025/07/bitwarden-mcp-server-secure-ai/
2•thunderbong•1h ago•1 comments

ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database (2009)

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5206848
1•sandwichsphinx•1h ago•0 comments

We should have more billionaires

https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1942992514954224025
3•hliyan•1h ago•12 comments

Realbasic (2000)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/06/12/realbasic/
2•geuis•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Built an agent to keep up with research

https://www.usebyline.com/
1•luhemarora•1h ago•0 comments

Brewer Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer_Island
1•twalichiewicz•1h ago•0 comments

Big Brother

https://bigbrother.fllics.com/en/
1•fllics•1h ago•0 comments

Australia is quietly introducing age checks for search engines like Google

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256
58•ahonhn•1h ago•29 comments

The Lumina Probiotic May Cause Blindness in the Same Way as Methanol

https://substack.com/home/post/p-168042147
59•exolymph•1h ago•25 comments

Murdoch University student fights accusation of illegal AI use in assignment

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/murdoch-university-student-fights-accusation-of-ai-use/105518732
5•ahonhn•1h ago•1 comments