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Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland

https://www.euronews.com/2026/07/05/italy-could-be-the-next-country-to-build-a-solar-railway-after-switzerlands-successful-tri
13•neilfrndes•1h ago

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ben_w•1h ago
Always nice when something that I suggest in a random comment only to get a dismissive reply, turns out to be an idea worth persuing all along.
Cpoll•12m ago
> idea worth persuing

Remains to be seen, considering how much snake oil there is in the solar market (but to be fair, this makes more sense than solar roads). A news article summary of a press release isn't proof of much.

mrmanner•49m ago
Trains AND solar power. Awesome.

Germany's 60K-game preservation project collapses after €1.5M funding dries up

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/germanys-1-5-million-project-to-build-the-w...
1•LorenDB•1m ago•0 comments

A Midsummer Night's Inferno

https://www.ft.com/content/1f36cc97-875c-405d-b895-fede135e0cf7
1•bookofjoe•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Code-Manager

https://maguowei.github.io/code-manager/
1•maguowei•8m ago•0 comments

France Survives a Terrible War–England Prepares for Aztec Hell

https://neoworld2027.blogspot.com/p/blood-sweat-cheers-france-survive-ugly_0978048937.html
1•odilelof•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Battle City Like Game I Made with Classmates 14 Years Ago

https://massacre.twocubes.io
1•chernikovalexey•9m ago•3 comments

The biggest iceberg has melted away, aged 40 or so

https://economist.com/obituary/2026/07/02/a23a-had-more-adventures-than-most
1•_tk_•10m ago•0 comments

Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight

https://www.designboom.com/technology/autonomous-flying-umbrella-follows-users-rain-sunlight-i-bu...
2•amichail•11m ago•0 comments

Dissolving Markets: How Sharing Technology Redistributes Power

https://lumramabaja.com/posts/dissolving-markets-how-sharing-technology-redistributes-power/
1•irwt•12m ago•0 comments

Learning to Replicate Expert Judgment in Financial Tasks

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/learning-to-replicate-expert-judgment-in-financial-tasks/
1•Anon84•14m ago•0 comments

Social media bans don't protect adults from harm–here's what to do

https://www.neowin.net/editorials/social-media-bans-for-kids-dont-protect-adults-against-harms-he...
2•01-_-•14m ago•0 comments

Simulating satellite networks with open source tools (2024)

https://medium.com/@jmwanderer/simulating-satellite-networks-897dd3cb1468
1•teleforce•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glyph a blockchain where the proof-of-work is neural network inference

https://github.com/raphaelwkago69-create/GLYPH
1•w4mwati•16m ago•0 comments

The cancer Alzheimer's disease paradox

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41514-026-00442-1
2•AFF87•17m ago•0 comments

NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jul/04/nhs-ai-app-patients-appropriate-services-health
1•Brajeshwar•19m ago•0 comments

Stories from Physics

https://spark.iop.org/stories-physics
1•the-mitr•20m ago•0 comments

Harbor: An MCP gateway that connects AI clients to back end APIs via tools

https://github.com/vijaydeepsinha/harbor
1•r0rshrk•20m ago•1 comments

Grade any site's HTTP signing-key directory

https://sitedex.dev/tools/keycheck?site=chatgpt.com
2•zeppelin_7•21m ago•0 comments

Applied XML Developers Conference (2004)

https://sellsbrothers.com/public/conference/oldindex9.htm
1•theanonymousone•25m ago•0 comments

Do Wavy Walls Use Fewer Bricks? I Tested It in Blender

https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/crinklecranklewalls/
1•birdculture•25m ago•0 comments

Farewell, atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider

https://www.popsci.com/science/large-hadron-collider-retirement/
1•markerz•27m ago•0 comments

Weltschmerz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltschmerz
2•tareqak•27m ago•0 comments

Intelligence Capital Index [pdf]

http://www.kailchan.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/KC_Intelligence-Capital-Index-full-results-and-...
1•kehiy•29m ago•0 comments

Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI
2•Bender•29m ago•0 comments

GCP offers agentic perimeter guardrails

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/securing-agentic-ai-whats-new-in-vpc-ser...
1•Getchowned•30m ago•0 comments

Lean Software Scaling Laws

https://gwern.net/lean-scaling
2•gmays•31m ago•0 comments

Mathematical Coincidence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_coincidence
1•cl3misch•31m ago•0 comments

The War on Fixing Your Own Car [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUd2pMu96xM
1•Bender•33m ago•0 comments

Dupes (product clones) took over the world

https://www.vox.com/podcasts/493930/dupe-culture-fender-ugg-quince-tiktok-amazon-online-shopping
1•gumby•37m ago•0 comments

Great apes have similar laugh rhythm to modern humans for 15M years

https://warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/whats-so-funny/
2•gmays•41m ago•0 comments

OK-DMD – Koopman Dynamic Mode Decomposition for KV-Cache Eviction

https://github.com/unkcenter/ok-dmd
1•UnKCenter•42m ago•0 comments