Hacker News with Generative AI: Scotland

The Ghosts of Gaelic (historytoday.com)
April 2025 is the 20th anniversary of the Gaelic Language Act (Scotland) of 2005, passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament with the aim of ‘securing the status of the Gaelic language as an official language of Scotland commanding equal respect to the English language’. It has provided the main policy framework for Gaelic since then.

Language, Scotland, History, Politics

61 points by apollinaire 3 days ago | 52 comments

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Scotland’s national archive has traced the mysterious disappearance of more than 3,000 historical documents over a period of 30 years to a history professor with an all-consuming interest in stamps.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 30 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 52 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 78 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 82 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 104 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 104 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 120 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 158 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 168 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 182 days ago | 0 comments

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

History, Archaeology, Scotland, Vikings

80 points by diodorus 236 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 253 days ago | 0 comments

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