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The biggest steam locomotive is whistle-stopping across the U.S.

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/11/nx-s1-5872656/big-boy-locomotive-steam
6•ghtbircshotbe•1h ago

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nickhalfasleep•9m ago
Not quite the biggest steam locomotive, the DM&IR Yellowstone class outranked them in many measures.

https://www.steamlocomotive.com/locobase.php?country=USA&whe...

ggm•2m ago
Article has "operating" headline here doesn't. Those that are left are (apparently) all on static display.

The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5426
1•lioeters•1m ago•0 comments

Largest housing affordability bill in decades becomes law

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/10/nx-s1-5885027/housing-bill-without-trump-signature
1•saucymew•3m ago•0 comments

Computation in Physical Systems

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computation-physicalsystems/
1•lioeters•6m ago•0 comments

Atlas: ROMbug Wants to Reinvent the Browser

https://rombug.com/
1•chainbuilder•17m ago•0 comments

AI notetakers promise easy meeting recaps, but some question their use

https://apnews.com/article/ai-notetaker-work-meetings-privacy-data-c700299371ca7cfec77dafdfb948067f
4•billybuckwheat•19m ago•1 comments

A Hundred Years Dry: The U.S. Navy's End of Alcohol at Sea

https://news.usni.org/2014/07/01/hundred-years-dry-u-s-navys-end-alcohol-sea
1•keepamovin•22m ago•0 comments

Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

https://github.com/LazoVelko/neverclick
2•thunderbong•28m ago•0 comments

The logic behind Kirkland x Palantir

https://lexifina.com/blog/kirkland-palantir-partnership
1•alansaber•29m ago•0 comments

America Changed Me and Europe Was Wrong [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUd6QHUnLMk
2•keepamovin•30m ago•3 comments

I find AI roleplay therapeutic

https://chatbrat.ai/bratlog/ultimate-ai-roleplay-setup-guide-memory-lorebooks
1•henrypissler•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Levee – a self-tuning circuit breaker and concurrency limiter for Go

https://github.com/codemartial/levee
1•code_martial•38m ago•0 comments

RTX 5070 Ti throttles at 107C; Blackwell hotspot sensor readable via MODS tool

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/hotspot-temperature-sensor-on-nvidias-blackwell-g...
2•sbulaev•39m ago•0 comments

Flock Camera Conspiracy, Prepare for Whats Coming [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFim3j9s6ic
1•Bender•47m ago•0 comments

Frequently Asked Questions on Expertise

https://jtpeterson.substack.com/p/faq-on-expertise
2•jger15•48m ago•0 comments

What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI

https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547
2•jhoho•51m ago•0 comments

Like a cheat code for your car: We investigate ECU tuning

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/07/like-a-cheat-code-for-your-car-we-investigate-ecu-tuning/
1•martincmartin•54m ago•0 comments

Apple Hide My Email bug, possibly related to disclosure vulnerability

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/7/2.html
3•zdw•55m ago•0 comments

Firefox 12.58% for Desktop Browser Market Share in North America June 2026

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/north-america
31•speckx•56m ago•13 comments

A Erlang style pure Scheme Webserver and further

https://igropyr.com
2•guenchi•57m ago•1 comments

Dismissive Dan's Review of the Overplane AI Coding Harness

https://www.overplane.dev/overview/dan/
3•mayank•58m ago•0 comments

Learning-to-Optimize via Deep Unfolded Flows

https://mit-realm.github.io/flowopt/
2•E-Reverance•1h ago•0 comments

Hitting $125k MRR as a solo founder by doubling down on the right segment

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/tech/hitting-125k-mrr-as-a-solo-founder-by-doubling-down-on-the...
1•jason_zig•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: TrialPilot – Clinical trials from your phone, built by a patient

1•thenerdhead•1h ago•0 comments

A pure scheme web programming tool

https://goeteia.dev
8•guenchi•1h ago•2 comments

A dock that wakes up reliably

https://fabiensanglard.net/tb4/index.html
15•ingve•1h ago•13 comments

WLV-01, a monochrome digital photography camera built from scratch

https://camerahacksbymalcolmjay.com/
1•car•1h ago•0 comments

The biggest steam locomotive is whistle-stopping across the U.S.

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/11/nx-s1-5872656/big-boy-locomotive-steam
6•ghtbircshotbe•1h ago•2 comments

"How 500 HN users crashed my 2GB server in 60 seconds – postmortem

https://dev.to/peakd/i-built-a-community-ranking-platform-alone-tonight-it-nearly-crashed-under-5...
1•GroguMaster•1h ago•0 comments

Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid

https://my.uscap.org/uscap/program/S0tc675/index.cfm?pgid=5167&sid=14770&abid=51228
2•thenerdhead•1h ago•0 comments

I made a horror game that's IMPOSSIBLE to SCREENSHOT [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNhiT-SmR1Q
1•goodmythical•1h ago•2 comments