Hacker News with Generative AI: Britain

Iron Age hoard found in North Yorkshire could change Britain's history (theguardian.com)
One of the biggest and most important iron age hoards ever found in the UK has been revealed, potentially altering our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago.

Archaeology, History, Britain, Iron Age

6 points by 6LLvveMx2koXfwn 9 days ago | 0 comments

Britain is building one of the world’s most expensive railways (cnn.com)

Britain, Transportation, Infrastructure, Economics

61 points by peutetre 134 days ago | 135 comments

Hoard of coins from Norman Conquest is Britain's most valuable treasure find (cnn.com)

History, Archaeology, Treasure, Britain, Norman Conquest

162 points by ChumpGPT 162 days ago | 82 comments

Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Britain (2016) (bbc.com)
As the clocks go forward for the start of British Summer Time, many of us will rue the loss of an hour in bed. But how did people get to work on time before alarm clocks?

History, Britain, Culture, Work

109 points by DrZootron 166 days ago | 86 comments

Sausages: An Anthology (wordpress.com)
For no particular reason, here are some extracts from British fiction about sausages. The first few are primarily about breakfast – the real thing, not that Full English Breakfast that was invented by marketing people.

Food, Literature, Culture, Britain

55 points by autokill 183 days ago | 7 comments

The Katsuification of Britain (vittlesmagazine.com)

Food, Culture, Britain

111 points by colinprince 227 days ago | 98 comments

Britain's nuclear submarine software built by Belarusian engineers (telegraph.co.uk)

Britain, Nuclear Submarines, Software, Belarus

7 points by agomez314 240 days ago | 0 comments

Stigma against benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain (phys.org)

Poverty, Social Issues, Britain, Welfare

48 points by tapper 278 days ago | 18 comments

Britain's second-largest city is forced to cut sanitation due to bankruptcy (abc.net.au)