Hacker News with Generative AI: Chile

Chile develops a rice variety that doesn't need to be drowned (france24.com)
A cold, dry part of Chile might not sound like the best place to grow rice, a famously thirsty grain that thrives in tropical conditions.

Agriculture, Chile, Rice, Climate Change

6 points by ofou 13 days ago | 0 comments

Hill or High Water (royalsociety.org)
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been cataloguing a collection of over 300 photographic slides from the Royal Society expedition to Southern Chile, which took place from September 1958 to March 1959.

Photography, History, Expeditions, Chile

31 points by benbreen 15 days ago | 0 comments

State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness (cnn.com)

Chile, Power Outages, Emergency Declarations, Natural Disasters

197 points by impish9208 86 days ago | 204 comments

19M people left without electricity after entire country hit by blackout (metro.co.uk)
Approximately 19 million people are thought to be without electricity after Chile has been engulfed by a nationwide power blackout.

Power Outages, Chile, Natural Disasters

6 points by ofou 87 days ago | 1 comments

'Fog harvesting' could yield water for drinking and agriculture (phys.org)
With less annual rainfall than 1 mm per year, Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. The main water source of cities in the region are underground rock layers that contain water-filled pore spaces which last recharged between 17,000 and 10,000 years ago.

Water Conservation, Climate Change, Chile, Deserts, Agriculture

6 points by wglb 91 days ago | 0 comments

Droughts are getting worse. Is fog-farming a fix? (grist.org)
The city of Alto Hospicio, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is one of the driest places on Earth. And yet its population of 140,000 continues to balloon, putting mounting pressure on nearby aquifers that haven’t been recharged by rain in 10,000 years. But Alto Hospicio, like so many other coastal cities, is rich in an untapped water resource: fog.

Drought, Climate Change, Water Conservation, Chile, Environmental Engineering

5 points by billybuckwheat 93 days ago | 0 comments

Humpback whale briefly traps young kayaker in its mouth in Chile (apnews.com)
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed.

Animals, Chile, Whales, Kayaking

66 points by vinnyglennon 98 days ago | 69 comments

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

252 points by Breadmaker 132 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 150 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 153 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 170 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 237 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 238 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 240 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 254 days ago | 92 comments

Why is Chile so long? (tomaspueyo.com)

Geography, Chile, South America

1441 points by trevin 325 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 356 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 357 days ago | 4 comments

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