Hacker News with Generative AI: Chile

World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject (eso.org)
On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1].

Astronomy, Chile, Environmental Impact, Industrial Development, Light Pollution

251 points by Breadmaker 6 days ago | 160 comments

Show HN: Web app that shows how good the air quality is in Chile (vercel.app)

Air Quality, Chile, Web Applications

16 points by iwayato 24 days ago | 9 comments

Exploring an undersea terrain sculpted by glaciers and volcanoes (arstechnica.com)
On May 2, 2008, the Chaitén volcano in Chile awoke with unexpected fury after more than 9,000 years of dormancy.

Volcanoes, Geology, Geography, Chile

17 points by pseudolus 28 days ago | 0 comments

The Planning Machine (2014) (newyorker.com)
In June, 1972, Ángel Parra, Chile’s leading folksinger, wrote a song titled “Litany for a Computer and a Baby About to Be Born.”

Music, Chile, History

5 points by rbanffy 45 days ago | 1 comments

Desert Racers Demolish Art Carved by Ancient People in Chile (nytimes.com)
Preservationists say governments at all levels have failed to prevent authorized and illegal off-road racers from driving through giant figures of animals, humans and objects.

Archaeology, Art, Environment, Chile, Off-Road Racing

25 points by FDAiscooked 111 days ago | 2 comments

The fight to save Chile's white strawberry (atlasobscura.com)
It’s nearly Christmas in the foggy Nahuelbuta Range of south-central Chile and berries the size and color of ping-pong balls are ripening in small gardens that tumble down steep forested slopes.

Agriculture, Chile, Food, Conservation

109 points by ofou 113 days ago | 51 comments

Desert Racers Demolish Art Carved by Ancient People in Chile (nytimes.com)
Preservationists say governments at all levels have failed to prevent authorized and illegal off-road racers from driving through giant figures of animals, humans and objects.

Art, Archaeology, Chile, Environmental Issues, Vandalism

9 points by mistersquid 115 days ago | 0 comments

The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50 (nsarchive.gwu.edu)
Washington, D.C., September 9, 2024 – Fifty years ago, as the New York Times prepared to break a major exposé on CIA covert operations in Chile, the architect of those operations, Henry Kissinger, misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of Socialist Party leader Salvador Allende, documents posted today by the National Security Archive show.

Politics, History, United States, Chile, Intelligence

133 points by robtherobber 129 days ago | 92 comments

Why is Chile so long? (tomaspueyo.com)

Geography, Chile, South America

1441 points by trevin 200 days ago | 446 comments

U.S. tech giants building data centers in Chile. Locals fighting back (restofworld.org)

Data Centers, Chile, Technology, Environmentalism, Politics

13 points by jrepinc 231 days ago | 5 comments

All Santander staff and 30M customers in Spain, Chile and Uruguay hacked (bbc.com)

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Spain, Chile, Uruguay

61 points by el_duderino 232 days ago | 4 comments

A crazy experience losing Apple earbuds in a remote town in Chile (twitter.com)