Hacker News with Generative AI: Mystery

Chemist Identifies Mystery 'Blobs' Washing Up in Newfoundland (nytimes.com)
A chemist in Canada says he has identified “with a high degree of confidence” the strange blobs that started washing up on Newfoundland’s shores months ago, although the Canadian authorities said they were still looking into it.

Chemistry, Biology, Canada, Mystery, Environment

73 points by mykowebhn 6 days ago | 28 comments

Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why (bbc.com)
Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why.

Space, Satellites, UK, Mystery, Government

4 points by alamortsubite 10 days ago | 0 comments

Somebody moved the UK's oldest satellite in the mid 1970s, but no one knows who (bbc.co.uk)
Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why.

Space Exploration, History, Mystery, United Kingdom

181 points by mindracer 12 days ago | 98 comments

The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet has been identified (reddit.com)
About two weeks ago I came across an old newspaper article in the Nordwest Zeitung archive, while researching Hörfest bands. The article was about a band called FEX from Kiel, who won a talent contest in Bremen in Sep 1984 and their music was described as Rock with Wave and Pop influences. It also mentioned their members and one of them I recognised from a Hörfest 83 band called Phret.

Music, Internet, Mystery, Germany

23 points by notamy 17 days ago | 5 comments

Hunt for Bitcoin's elusive creator Satoshi Nakamoto hits another dead-end (bbc.com)
Stephen Mollah is the latest person to claim to be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin

Bitcoin, Cryptography, Technology, Mystery

5 points by peutetre 18 days ago | 0 comments

Who died and left the US $7B? (sherwood.news)
It was the biggest estate-tax payment in modern history, but no one knew who made it. Then an anonymous phone call pointed to one man.

Taxes, Inheritance, Wealth, Mystery, US News

456 points by jsnell 44 days ago | 551 comments

Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage (nytimes.com)
A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arctic.

History, Arctic, Exploration, Mystery, Science

46 points by Thevet 45 days ago | 15 comments

Nobody knows what happened within the MMC Association in 1998 (sdomi.pl)
Nobody knows what happened within the MMC Association in 1998.

History, Mystery, Organizations

71 points by LorenDB 55 days ago | 10 comments

Mysterious Nazca Glyphs Have Just Been Revealed (sciencealert.com)
In the desert of southern Peru, a mystery has been unfolding over decades.

Archaeology, History, Peru, Mystery, Nazca Lines

7 points by cainxinth 58 days ago | 2 comments

They All Got Mysterious Brain Diseases. They're Fighting to Learn Why (nytimes.com)

Health, Medicine, Mystery, Disease, Investigation

37 points by ctoth 99 days ago | 14 comments

Cicada 3301 (wikipedia.org)