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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•5h ago

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dlcarrier•5h 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.

Kira (Short AI-Assisted Film on Human Cloning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx8rMzlG29Q
1•quantisan•3m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/417892/suburbs-sunbelt-housing-affordability-yimby
2•littlexsparkee•5m ago•0 comments

LLMs are telepathy. We just don't know it yet

https://www.monarchwadia.com/pages/LlmsAreTelepathy.html
1•monarchwadia•7m 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•12m ago•0 comments

The Cost of AI Reliance

https://codebytom.blog/2025/07/09/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-reliance/
1•gpi•12m ago•0 comments

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

https://0din.ai/blog/phishing-for-gemini
1•GenAIbughunter•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Keep up with the world without information overload

https://www.a01ai.com/
1•vincentyyy•16m ago•0 comments

Bitwarden MCP server secures AI access to your passwords

https://nerds.xyz/2025/07/bitwarden-mcp-server-secure-ai/
2•thunderbong•16m ago•1 comments

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

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5206848
1•sandwichsphinx•31m ago•0 comments

We should have more billionaires

https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1942992514954224025
2•hliyan•32m ago•3 comments

Realbasic (2000)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/06/12/realbasic/
2•geuis•36m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Built an agent to keep up with research

https://www.usebyline.com/
1•luhemarora•52m ago•0 comments

Brewer Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer_Island
1•twalichiewicz•52m ago•0 comments

Big Brother

https://bigbrother.fllics.com/en/
1•fllics•57m 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
29•ahonhn•58m ago•11 comments

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

https://substack.com/home/post/p-168042147
49•exolymph•1h ago•14 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•0 comments

Data Science Weekly – Issue 607

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-607
1•sebg•1h ago•0 comments

Qthreads – large numbers of threads conveniently and easily

https://github.com/sandialabs/qthreads
2•michaelsbradley•1h ago•0 comments

The computational cost of corporate rebranding

2•rileygersh•1h ago•0 comments

MemOS, the first 'memory operating system' that gives AI human-like recall

https://venturebeat.com/ai/chinese-researchers-unveil-memos-the-first-memory-operating-system-that-gives-ai-human-like-recall/
2•rancar2•1h ago•1 comments

"A heist": Senator calls out Texas for trying to steal shuttle from Smithsonian

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/its-a-heist-senator-calls-out-texas-for-trying-to-steal-shuttle-from-smithsonian/
14•LorenDB•1h ago•1 comments

Kinds of Knowledge Worth Remembering

https://domofutu.substack.com/p/7-kinds-of-knowledge-worth-remembering
2•domofutu•1h ago•0 comments

Astronomers detect first known 'death wish' planet

https://www.popsci.com/science/planet-death-wish/
3•domofutu•1h ago•0 comments

Full QuickJS Support for Nginx

https://blog.nginx.org/blog/quickjs-engine-support-for-njs
2•adius•1h ago•0 comments

PDF Barber – Split and Merge PDFs Online – Free Privacy-First PDF Tool

https://www.pdfbarber.com/
2•thunderbong•2h ago•0 comments

LLM Inference Handbook

https://bentoml.com/llm/
5•djhu9•2h ago•0 comments

Little videos are cooking our brains: How do we reclaim our attention?

https://www.vox.com/technology/419430/ai-tiktok-youtube-shorts-instagram-reels
7•ryan_j_naughton•2h ago•0 comments

I accidentally prompt-injected myself using Claude Code GitHub Actions:-S

https://twitter.com/kwuwon/status/1943497898429157459
3•exclipy•2h ago•0 comments

A Fundamental Unit of Intelligence [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dykkubb-Qus
1•surprisetalk•2h ago•0 comments