Hacker News with Generative AI: Spain

Vercel Slams LaLiga Piracy Blocks as "Unaccountable Internet Censorship" (torrentfreak.com)
Cloud-based web application platform Vercel is among the latest companies to find their servers blocked in Spain due to LaLiga's ongoing IPTV anti-piracy campaign.

Internet Censorship, Piracy, Spain, Web Development, Cloud Computing

9 points by gslin 3 days ago | 0 comments

Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient (nature.com)
Around 60% of the European Union’s soils are considered unhealthy, but geographer Jesús Rodrigo Comino is determined to help change that in his native Spain.

Environment, Science, Agriculture, Sustainability, Spain

262 points by gnabgib 9 days ago | 141 comments

Spain continues blocking IP addresses, now affecting Vercel (vercel.com)
A Spanish court has granted LaLiga the power to block IP addresses associated with unauthorized football streaming—without distinguishing between infringing and non-infringing services. As a result, legitimate, unrelated websites that people depend on are now inaccessible in Spain.

Internet Censorship, Spain, Law, Vercel, Football

7 points by angelmm 9 days ago | 0 comments

Vercel Blocked in Whole of Spain (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Vercel, Spain, Internet Outages, Web Hosting

11 points by garyclarke27 10 days ago | 1 comments

Update on Spain and LaLiga blocks of the internet (vercel.com)
A Spanish court has granted LaLiga the power to block IP addresses associated with unauthorized football streaming—without distinguishing between infringing and non-infringing services. As a result, legitimate, unrelated websites that people depend on are now inaccessible in Spain.

Internet Censorship, Spain, Football, Law

17 points by todsacerdoti 10 days ago | 0 comments

Virtually Tour Salvador Dali Theatre Museum in Figueres, Spain (salvador-dali.org)
The Foundation is happy to make publicly available the virtual visit of the Theatre-Museum Dalí.

Virtual Reality, Art, Museums, Spain

9 points by rmason 11 days ago | 3 comments

LaLiga/Cloudflare Crisis: ISPs Urged to Action Amid Mass Overblocking (torrentfreak.com)
With assistance from Spain's leading ISPs, LaLiga continues to block pirate sites, Cloudflare, and thousands of innocents caught in the crossfire. Legal action by Cloudflare and hacking collective RootedCON tried to bring the chaos to an end but their requests were dismissed last month. Meanwhile, a non-profit group is demanding that all ISPs participate in nationwide blocking.

Internet Censorship, Piracy, Legal Battles, Spain, Cloudflare

23 points by akyuu 13 days ago | 0 comments

My Cloudflare R2 has been blocked from LaLiga (Spain football league) (lobste.rs)
I’m living in Spain and suddenly can no longer access my Cloudflare R2 bucket where I keep backups of personal files. (Luckily for me, I don’t use it for business things.)

Cloudflare R2, Spain, Internet Access, Website Blocking, Personal Data

7 points by DanAtC 14 days ago | 0 comments

LaLiga/Cloudflare Crisis: ISPs Urged to Action Amid Mass Overblocking (torrentfreak.com)
With assistance from Spain's leading ISPs, LaLiga continues to block pirate sites, Cloudflare, and thousands of innocents caught in the crossfire.

Internet Censorship, Piracy, Spain, Cloudflare, ISPs

9 points by hn_acker 20 days ago | 1 comments

Judge Confirms LaLiga's Right to Block Cloudflare in Pursuit of IPTV Pirates (torrentfreak.com)
Last December, a Spanish judge authorized LaLiga to block Cloudflare's shared IP addresses to combat piracy. Thousands of innocent internet users were affected, prompting Cloudflare and cybersecurity group RootedCon to ask the court to overturn the order. A judge has now denied both requests, stating that no evidence was presented to show that blocking caused any damage.

IPTV Piracy, Legal Battles, Cybersecurity, Spain

5 points by hn_acker 29 days ago | 0 comments

The social media communication of Andalusian interest groups (frontiersin.org)
Interest groups, one of the main expressions of the diversity of social interests in the contemporary world, are organizations that serve as channels for bringing social demands to the attention of the political establishment with the aim of influencing the design, discussion, approval, and implementation of public policies.

Social Media, Political Science, Interest Groups, Spain

9 points by PaulHoule 32 days ago | 0 comments

Spanish toxic oil syndrome cover-up (2001) (theguardian.com)
Twenty years ago, 1,000 people died in an epidemic that spread across Spain. Poisoned cooking oil was blamed - an explanation that suited government and giant chemical corporations. It was, argues Bob Woffinden, who investigated the scandal in the 80s, the prototype scientific fraud that has found echoes around the world

Science, Government, Health, Cover-ups, Spain

30 points by lynguist 40 days ago | 3 comments

1.4M-year-old skull found in Spain earliest human face of Western Europe (msn.com)

Archaeology, Paleontology, Europe, Human Evolution, Spain

5 points by pseudolus 44 days ago | 1 comments

Spain to impose fines for not labelling AI-generated content (theverge.com)
OpenAI’s new Responses API comes with web search, the ability to look through files, and computer use out of the box.

AI, Regulation, Spain, Generative AI, Content Creation

21 points by 01-_- 45 days ago | 3 comments

Spanish administration offering Macromedia Flash courses in 2025 (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Education, Spain, Technology, Programming Languages

10 points by marvel_boy 46 days ago | 5 comments

Obsessing over loneliness is a key factor in the development of depression (elpais.com)
According to data from the latest report from the State Observatory of Unwanted Loneliness (SoledadES), corresponding to the year 2024, one in five people in Spain suffers from loneliness, and of these, almost 70% say they have been in that situation for more than two years.

Loneliness, Mental Health, Depression, Spain

6 points by domofutu 46 days ago | 2 comments

Father tries to block daughter's euthanasia in landmark Spanish case (bbc.com)
A young woman is due to testify in a Spanish court today in a bid to persuade a judge to let her die voluntarily against the wishes of her father, in the first case of its kind.

Euthanasia, Law, Spain, Family Law, Bioethics

52 points by impish9208 53 days ago | 155 comments

Google Must Testify as LaLiga Demands Criminal Liability for 'Piracy Profits' (torrentfreak.com)
A court in Murcia, Spain, has ordered Google to testify in a criminal case concerning IPTV app, NewPlay. Football league LaLiga, whose matches were allegedly offered illegally through the app, previously called for the directors of Google, Apple, and Huawei to face criminal charges.

Google, Lawsuits, Piracy, Sports, Spain

11 points by gslin 53 days ago | 3 comments

Kia's EV strategy: Smaller, cheaper cars like the EV3 hatch and EV4 sedan (arstechnica.com)
Ninety minutes south of Barcelona, Kia celebrated its 2025 EV day by unveiling the EV4, PV5, and Concept EV2 this week.

Electric Vehicles, Kia, Automotive Industry, Spain

10 points by rbanffy 58 days ago | 2 comments

LaLiga pushes Spanish ISPs to Block IP Addresses, Affecting Businesses and Users (systemadministration.net)
A new wave of indiscriminate IP blocking by major Spanish telecom operators has sparked widespread concern over internet freedom and transparency.

Internet Freedom, Censorship, Spain, Telecom

4 points by Funes- 61 days ago | 0 comments

Barcelona buys apartment building at center of eviction protests (bloomberg.com)
After months of protests, the city stepped in to buy an apartment block where tenants faced eviction. But anger over high rents and real estate speculation continues.

Real Estate, Politics, Housing, Spain, Protests

130 points by toomuchtodo 67 days ago | 318 comments

14th century Spanish Food before tomatoes and chili (theguardian.com)
Forget gazpacho, patatas bravas or the tang of paprika in your chorizo. Such dishes may be considered staples of the Mediterranean diet but a new exhibition celebrating Spain’s oldest surviving cookbook suggests medieval Spanish cuisine was nothing like its modern successor.

Food History, Spain, Medieval History, Culinary History

25 points by 4ndrewl 71 days ago | 1 comments

Spanish 'running of the bulls' festival reveals crowd movements can be predicted (phys.org)
The collective motion of large crowds may be predictable past a certain density of people in a given area, according to a study published in Nature.

Crowd Behavior, Physics, Spain, Festivals

117 points by gmays 73 days ago | 55 comments

Battery-powered electric ferry service to connect Spain and Morocco (theiet.org)
The first-ever ‘green’ ferry service carrying passengers from mainland Spain to Morocco has been announced by Spanish operator Baleària.

Renewable Energy, Transportation, Spain, Morocco, Ferry Services

37 points by adrian_mrd 85 days ago | 26 comments

Overtourism pushes residents in Spain and Portugal to the limit (theguardian.com)
As visitor numbers hit record levels in southern Europe, some residents are surrounded entirely by tourist flats

Overtourism, Tourism, Spain, Portugal, Europe

12 points by n1b0m 91 days ago | 3 comments

Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain (smithsonianmag.com)
Archaeologists have raised a 2,600-year-old shipwreck from the waters near southeastern Spain.

Archaeology, History, Shipwrecks, Phoenicians, Spain

205 points by bookofjoe 99 days ago | 106 comments

Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents (theguardian.com)
Spain has announced plans to impose a tax of up to 100% on real estate bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK, in an aim to tackle the country’s housing crisis.

Spain, Real Estate, Taxes, Housing Crisis, European Union

162 points by vinni2 102 days ago | 265 comments

High speed "Avril" trains in Spain stop operating due to Y2K25 bug (rtve.es)
Renfe suspende la circulación de los trenes Talgo Avril por un fallo informático

Transportation, Software Bugs, Spain, Technology

5 points by asp1 115 days ago | 0 comments

Spain introduces bill to combat online fake news (theguardian.com)
Spain’s leftwing government has announced a bill extending a requirement to publish corrections to posts by digital platforms and social media influencers in an attempt to fight disinformation.

Spain, Legislation, Fake News, Social Media, Disinformation

5 points by isaacfrond 129 days ago | 4 comments

World's oldest mammalian ancestor discovered in Mallorca (phys.org)
An international research team led by the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and the Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals (MUCBO | MBCN) have described a fossil animal that lived between 270 and 280 million years ago in present-day Mallorca.

Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology, Spain

9 points by pseudolus 130 days ago | 0 comments