Hacker News with Generative AI: Paris

Egyptologist in Paris Discovers Secret Messages on the Luxor Obelisk (gizmodo.com)
In 1830, the viceroy of Egypt gifted France a 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk—a carved stone pillar with a pyramidal top.
Paris Votes for 500 More Car Free Streets (theenergymix.com)
As Paris votes to make another 500 streets car-free, the first residents are moving into a newly-built town outside Cambridge, UK, where the bicycle, not the car, is king.
To Cope with Extreme Heat, Paris Will Swap Parking Spaces for Trees (e360.yale.edu)
Paris aims to replace 60,000 parking spaces across the city with trees by the end of this decade, according to its newly released climate plan.
First scientific study of the Paris catacombs (theguardian.com)
Deep beneath the streets of Paris, the dead are having their last word. They are recounting 1,000 years of death in the city: how many are ­buried in the labyrinth of tunnels that make up Les Catacombes, what killed them and how the diseases that may have led to their demise have ­developed over the centuries.
2024 Paris Olympics: No, breaking shouldn't be an Olympic sport (yahoo.com)
US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris (apnews.com)
US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris (apnews.com)
Paris Closed 100 Streets to Cars for Good. Now, the City Is a Cyclists' Paradise (bicycling.com)
Le vieux Paris n'est plus (davidabell.substack.com)
Homeless people removed from Paris region in pre-Olympics 'social cleansing' (theguardian.com)
Paris's Catacomb Mushrooms (2017) (atlasobscura.com)
Ex-DeepMind scientists raise $220M to launch Paris-based agentic AI startup H (sifted.eu)
Paris inaugurates giant water storage basin to clean Seine for Olympic swimming (apnews.com)
Bicycle use now exceeds car use in Paris (elpais.com)