Hacker News with Generative AI: North America

The Really Big One (2015) (newyorker.com)
When the next full-margin rupture happens, that region will suffer the worst natural disaster in the history of North America, outside of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which killed upward of a hundred thousand people.

Earthquakes, Natural Disasters, North America

38 points by Tomte 2 days ago | 14 comments

Native American names extend earthquake history of northeastern North America (phys.org)
In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong shaking and water sloshing out of the pots used by Native Americans to cook a midday meal along the St. Lawrence River, according to contemporaneous reports.

Earthquakes, History, Native Americans, North America

72 points by pseudolus 7 days ago | 45 comments

Can Your Phone Ban You from the U.S. in 2025? (ctcnews.ca)
In a shocking update that’s sending ripples across North America, the Canadian government has issued a stern travel advisory cautioning its citizens about a little-known but deeply invasive U.S. border policy.

Travel, Technology, Immigration, North America

22 points by sipofwater 16 days ago | 4 comments

North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover (jsg.utexas.edu)
Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock — and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in the Earth’s mantle may be the reason why.

Geology, North America, Tectonic Plates

144 points by jandrewrogers 20 days ago | 36 comments

Orphan tsunami of 1700–Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in America (2015) (usgs.gov)
A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted that no parent earthquake had been felt; they were wondering what had set off the waves. They had no way knowing that the tsunami had been spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America.

Tsunami, Earthquakes, History, Geology, North America

48 points by Tomte 29 days ago | 13 comments

A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland (theconversation.com)
A movement that wanted to merge North America into one nation and extend its borders as far as the Panama Canal might sound incredibly familiar. But this group, called the “technocracy movement”, was a group of 1930s nonconformists with big ideas about how to rearrange US society. They proposed a vision that would get rid of waste and make North America highly productive by using technology and science.

History, North America, Political Movements, Social Change

20 points by valeg 33 days ago | 6 comments

Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union (engadget.com)
There’s now an industry-wide union for video game workers in the US and Canada.

Video Games, Labor, Unions, North America

412 points by ksec 38 days ago | 194 comments

Ask HN: How do I build a new social network? (ycombinator.com)
I am interested in building a new social network but I want it to be limited to North America only.

Social Media, North America, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Startups

16 points by babuloseo 50 days ago | 36 comments

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

384 points by lis 67 days ago | 210 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 82 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 87 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 89 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 94 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 108 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 124 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 128 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 134 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 174 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 175 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 177 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 228 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 263 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 322 days ago | 79 comments

Solutrean Hypothesis (wikipedia.org)

Archaeology, History, Prehistory, North America

10 points by tusslewake 341 days ago | 0 comments

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