Hacker News with Generative AI: North America

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)
My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I that meant a lot of standing outside in the cold. My dad’s preferred method of improving his lot was improving lots, and my brother and I were “voluntarily” recruited to help working on the buildings we owned.

Family, Real Estate, Immigration, North America

153 points by lis 3 days ago | 58 comments

Canada and Mexico order retaliatory tariffs on U.S. (pbs.org)
President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an order to impose stiff tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China, drawing swift retaliation and an undeniable sense of betrayal from the country’s North American neighbors as a trade war erupted among the longtime allies.

Trade Wars, International Relations, Politics, Economics, North America

21 points by geox 19 days ago | 6 comments

Tesla announces all V4 Superchargers can now charge up to 325kW in North America (electrek.co)
Tesla has announced all V4 Superchargers can now charge up to 325kW in North America, but for now, only the Cybertruck can take advantage of the upgraded power output.

Tesla, Electric Vehicles, Charging Infrastructure, North America

9 points by zfg 24 days ago | 1 comments

Eye Contact (kosayjabre.com)
Why do restrooms stalls in North America have such huge gaps in the door?

Architecture, Design, North America

14 points by Jabrov 26 days ago | 7 comments

Archaeologists Finding Canoes in American Midwest as Old as Great Pyramids (smithsonianmag.com)
Tamara Thomsen was 24 feet underwater when she spotted it: the decaying end of a dugout canoe, a great white oak carved some 1,200 years ago. It was jutting out of a sandy ridge in Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota—a body of water skirting Madison, the state capital—and she knew it was a remarkable find. “What I did not understand was the breadth of the discovery.”

Archaeology, History, Wisconsin, North America, Indigenous Cultures

4 points by strict9 30 days ago | 0 comments

Vikings Settled in North America in 1021AD (bbc.com)
Vikings had a settlement in North America exactly one thousand years ago, centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, a study says.

History, Archaeology, Vikings, North America

16 points by mads 44 days ago | 0 comments

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas (phys.org)
For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons, saber-toothed cats and dire wolves that once roamed North and South America.

Paleontology, Archaeology, Extinction, History, North America

75 points by wglb 61 days ago | 22 comments

Two-inch long 'murder hornets' eradicated from US (theguardian.com)
The world’s largest hornet, an invasive breed nicknamed the “murder hornet” for its dangerous sting and ability to slaughter a hive of honeybees in as little as 90 minutes, has been declared eradicated in the US, five years after being spotted for the first time in Washington state near the Canadian border.

Invasive Species, Entomology, North America, Environmental News

6 points by ziofill 65 days ago | 1 comments

Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Americans (uaf.edu)
Scientists have uncovered the first direct evidence that ancient Americans relied primarily on mammoth and other large animals for food.

Archaeology, Food, Ancient History, North America, Paleontology

108 points by stevenwoo 71 days ago | 75 comments

Tesla vehicles are more "Made in America" than any other brand (notateslaapp.com)
According to a recent NHTSA filing of which vehicles contain the most North American parts, Tesla’s vehicles are, unsurprisingly, the most North American made vehicles. This specifically includes parts produced and sourced from the US and Canada for 2025 models.

Tesla, Automotive Industry, Manufacturing, North America, Consumer Reports

10 points by grecy 110 days ago | 0 comments

Yamaha throws in the towel, pulls out of e-bike market in North America (electrek.co)
Yamaha has announced to its dealers that it will be pulling its e-bikes out of the North American market at the end of this year.

E-Bikes, North America, Business, Yamaha

5 points by rntn 111 days ago | 0 comments

114-year-old woman is now believed to be oldest living person in North America (apnews.com)
A 114-year-old Pennsylvania woman is now believed to be the oldest living person in North America.

Supercentenarians, North America, Pennsylvania, Records, Longevity

9 points by geox 114 days ago | 0 comments

Earth system impacts of the European arrival to the Americas after 1492 (sciencedirect.com)
Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are not well constrained. We investigate whether the decline in global atmospheric CO2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late 1500s and early 1600s which globally lowered surface air temperatures by 0.15∘C, were generated by natural forcing or were a result of the large-scale depopulation of the Americas after European arrival, subsequent land use change and secondary succession.

Climate Change, History, Environmental Science, North America

6 points by user070223 165 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft Azure outage takes down services across North America (bleepingcomputer.com)

Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Service Outages, North America

6 points by frays 199 days ago | 1 comments

Clues to disappearance of North America's large mammals 50k years ago (phys.org)

Paleontology, Extinction, North America, Ancient History, Climate Change

63 points by wglb 259 days ago | 79 comments

Solutrean Hypothesis (wikipedia.org)

Archaeology, History, Prehistory, North America

10 points by tusslewake 278 days ago | 0 comments

Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas (washingtonpost.com)