Hacker News with Generative AI: Scotland

Stamp fanatic professor stole 3k items from Scotland's national archive (theguardian.com)
Scotland’s national archive has traced the mysterious disappearance of more than 3,000 historical documents over a period of 30 years to a history professor with an all-consuming interest in stamps.

Scotland, History, Archives, Theft, Crime

7 points by bookofjoe 6 days ago | 0 comments

Scotland now home to Europe's biggest battery as windy storage site fires up (theregister.com)
What's claimed to be Europe’s largest battery has come to Scotland, after a new facility came online in the country’s north.

Energy, Scotland, Renewable Energy, Europe, Batteries

8 points by defrost 28 days ago | 0 comments

A runic inscription on Viking-age treasure find has been deciphered (theguardian.com)
When the Galloway hoard was discovered in a ploughed field in western Scotland in 2014, it proved to be the richest collection of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland. Now the long-standing mystery of who might have owned it when it was buried more than 1,000 years ago may have been solved.

Archaeology, History, Vikings, Scotland

6 points by isaacfrond 54 days ago | 0 comments

Scotland's first 'enclosed' salmon farm to open on Loch Long (bbc.com)
An innovation in salmon farming - to tackle pollution and the spread of parasitic lice - will mark a first for Scotland at a new fish farm in Argyll.

Scotland, Aquaculture, Fish Farming, Environment, Innovation

9 points by colinprince 58 days ago | 13 comments

Fears of 'rogue rewilding' in Scottish Highlands after further lynx sightings (theguardian.com)
For a brief moment this week, lynx have been roaming the Scottish Highlands once again. But this was not the way conservationists had hoped to end their 1,000-year absence.

Wildlife Conservation, Scotland, Lynx, Ecology, Environmentalism

4 points by rntn 80 days ago | 0 comments

One of four lynx captured in Scottish Highlands dies (theguardian.com)
One of the four lynx captured in the Scottish Highlands this week has died.

Wildlife, Scotland, Conservation

6 points by howard941 80 days ago | 0 comments

Undersea tunnels connect remote islands halfway between Iceland and Scotland (cnn.com)

Undersea Tunnels, Geography, Infrastructure, Iceland, Scotland

7 points by peutetre 96 days ago | 1 comments

A 132-Year-Old Message in a Bottle in a Scottish Lighthouse (nytimes.com)
Mechanical engineers inspecting a lighthouse found a surprising message: a handwritten missive from workers of another age.

History, Scotland, Lighthouses, Archaeology

104 points by pepys 134 days ago | 55 comments

Message in a bottle found in lighthouse wall after 132 years (bbc.co.uk)
Engineers have found a bottle with a 132-year-old message deep inside the walls of a lighthouse in the south of Scotland.

History, Archaeology, Scotland, Lighthouses

11 points by xenocratus 144 days ago | 0 comments

Robert Fergusson: Scotia's Bard (historytoday.com)
On 17 October 1774 the Scots poet Robert Fergusson died.

Poetry, Scotland, History, Literature

5 points by pepys 157 days ago | 0 comments

'Amazing' Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland (theguardian.com)

History, Archaeology, Scotland, Vikings

80 points by diodorus 212 days ago | 16 comments

Scottish isles may solve mystery of 'Snowball Earth' (bbc.co.uk)

Geology, Earth Science, Scotland, Climate Change

4 points by mellosouls 229 days ago | 0 comments

Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, study finds (theguardian.com)