Hacker News with Generative AI: Geography

The World Grid and New Geographies of Cooperation (centerforneweconomics.org)
“People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges.”

Geography, Economics, Cooperation

45 points by hackandthink 4 days ago | 7 comments

Magnetic North Pole moves closer to Russia in way never seen before (independent.co.uk)
Scientists have detected unexpected activity in the high Arctic as the magnetic North Pole heads towards Russia in a way that has never been seen before.

Science, Geography, Climate Change, Earth Science

8 points by chris_overseas 5 days ago | 1 comments

Burning Mountain (wikipedia.org)
Burning Mountain, the common name for Mount Wingen, is a hill near Wingen, New South Wales, Australia, approximately 224 km (139 mi) north of Sydney just off the New England Highway.[2]

Australia, Geography, Geology

4 points by ben_w 5 days ago | 0 comments

Solving the Siberian Crater Mystery (nautil.us)
In the northern reaches of Russia, enigmatic craters have begun appearing in broad expanses of windswept tundra.

Science, Geography, Mysteries

22 points by rbanffy 19 days ago | 5 comments

The First Atlas (cosmographia.substack.com)
The fifty year period between 1550-1600 is often called the golden age of cartography.

Cartography, History, Golden Age, Geography

5 points by diodorus 22 days ago | 0 comments

Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone (ssoready.com)
Australia/Lord_Howe, population 382 and some notable stick bugs, has the weirdest daylight savings rule

Australia, Time Zones, Geography

1147 points by noleary 22 days ago | 455 comments

We Can Terraform the American West (wordpress.com)
We’re missing 300 million Americans. We’re missing 30 global cities west of 100 degrees longitude. We should do something about it!

Urban Planning, Geography, Climate Change, Population

246 points by jasondavies 26 days ago | 316 comments

After the Deluge: Appalachia's "Climate Haven" Myth Unravels (salvationsouth.com)
When Hurricane Helene roared across Appalachia on September 27, it pummeled a region that academics and journalists in recent years had labeled a “climate change haven.”

Climate Change, Appalachia, Natural Disasters, Environmental Issues, Geography

12 points by speckx 28 days ago | 5 comments

Can you unscramble the city map tiles into the correct order? (tripgeo.com)
An unhandled error has occurred.

Games, Geography, Puzzles

4 points by vinnyglennon 29 days ago | 0 comments

Polar Night in the Northernmost Town (smithsonianmag.com)
At 78 degrees north latitude, which is about 12 degrees farther north than the lower boundary of the Arctic Circle, Svalbard is no stranger to polar night.

Arctic, Geography, Norway

76 points by Brajeshwar 34 days ago | 20 comments

Mt Rainier Elevation Survey (countryhighpoints.com)
Columbia Crest has melted 21.8 ft since 1998, revealing a new summit location on the SW Rim

Mt Rainier, Elevation, Climate Change, Geography, Environmental Science

51 points by nickswalker 36 days ago | 11 comments

Directional system and spatial deix in Manam language (wikipedia.org)
Manam is a Kairiru–Manam language spoken mainly on the volcanic Manam Island, northeast of New Guinea.

Linguistics, Language, Geography

14 points by thunderbong 38 days ago | 0 comments

What a circle around Paris looks like, according to Mr. Mercator (reddit.com)
That's really cool actually. Shows how disproportionate our standard rectangular map of the earth is.

Cartography, Geography, Maps

4 points by jtc331 40 days ago | 0 comments

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain (every.to)
On October 3, the British government announced that it was giving up sovereignty over a small tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos Islands.

International Relations, Politics, Geography, Technology, Internet

52 points by marban 44 days ago | 27 comments

Microsoft's 1.4B Global ML Building Footprints (marksblogg.com)
In 2022, Microsoft released a worldwide Building Footprints dataset. The polygons for each building were produced using machine learning algorithms that were fed satellite imagery from Airbus, Maxar, Vexcel and IGN FI, the private subsidiary of France's Institut Géographique National.

Machine Learning, Data, Satellite Imagery, Geography, Microsoft

4 points by marklit 45 days ago | 0 comments

UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius (bbc.com)
The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.

Politics, International Relations, UK, Mauritius, Geography

45 points by rafram 49 days ago | 3 comments

Mount Sinai (wikipedia.org)
Mount Sinai (Hebrew: הַר סִינָֽי‎ Har Sīnay; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ Ṭūrāʾ dəSīnăy; Coptic: Ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), also known as Jabal Musa (Arabic: جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, translation: Mountain of Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is one of several locations claimed to be the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the Torah, Bible, and Quran, Moses received the Ten Commandments.

Religion, History, Geography

4 points by vinnyglennon 50 days ago | 0 comments

Italy and Switzerland have agreed to shift their shared border in the Alps (cnn.com)

Italy, Switzerland, Border Changes, Alps, Geography

5 points by vinnyglennon 50 days ago | 1 comments

Switzerland and Italy redraw border due to melting glaciers (bbc.com)
Switzerland and Italy have redrawn part of their border in the Alps due to melting glaciers, caused by climate change.

Switzerland, Italy, Climate Change, Geography, Environment

33 points by gniting 52 days ago | 4 comments

Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border (theguardian.com)
Switzerland and Italy have redrawn a border that traverses an Alpine peak as melting glaciers shift the historically defined frontier.

Climate Change, Geography, International Relations, Switzerland, Italy

17 points by yusufaytas 53 days ago | 1 comments

What commercial flight route needs the most (min poss.) stops from A to B? (stackexchange.com)
For travel hacking (and interest) value, colleagues and I have been trying to work out which routes worldwide might have the highest number of required legs.

Travel, Airlines, Optimization, Geography

48 points by beatthatflight 59 days ago | 20 comments

Development from the outside in: Can Irvine become a central city? (scottsumner.substack.com)
Cities have been around for thousands of years. As far as I know, all cities have developed in essentially the same way---from the inside out. From a small central area, development gradually spreads to more outlying districts. Orange County is an extremely unusual place---a metro area that is developing from the outside in.

Urban Planning, Cities, Orange County, California, Geography

14 points by surprisetalk 63 days ago | 8 comments

A Deluge for the Sahara (nasa.gov)
The Sahara Desert is renowned for its barren, arid landscapes that, in some areas, receive just a few inches (tens of millimeters) of rain per year. Still, when it rains in the world’s largest non-polar desert, it can most certainly pour.

Weather, Sahara Desert, Climate, Geography

7 points by csomar 65 days ago | 0 comments

Can humans grow new islands in the lowest-lying country? (cnn.com)

Climate Change, Geography, Environmentalism, The Maldives

4 points by domofutu 66 days ago | 0 comments

Satellite Imagery of Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the USA (pudding.cool)

Satellite Imagery, Sports, Data Visualization, Geography, United States

84 points by Brajeshwar 66 days ago | 42 comments

Why your Nintendo was on Channel 3 (except in Cleveland) [video] (youtube.com)

Video Games, Television, History, Geography

14 points by LaserDiscMan 67 days ago | 0 comments

The Minneapolis Street Grid: Explained (streets.mn)
When I moved to Minneapolis from upstate New York last year, I found myself puzzled by the layout of the streets and avenues across the city.

Minneapolis, City Planning, Urban Design, Geography, Transportation

139 points by Renevith 70 days ago | 62 comments

Map of North America During the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) – 75 MYA (twitter.com)
The lede is missing as there is no text provided in the article. The word "x.com" is not a sentence and does not provide a lead or summary.

Geography, Paleontology, Cretaceous Period

4 points by agomez314 73 days ago | 0 comments

All Maps Are Wrong (hereandthere.club)

Cartography, Maps, Geography, Perspective

14 points by todsacerdoti 75 days ago | 2 comments

America's Oldest Board Game Teaches 19th-Century Geography (mymodernmet.com)

Board Games, History, Geography, America

29 points by bookofjoe 80 days ago | 4 comments