[HN Gopher] Large ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs uncovered by wave...
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Large ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs uncovered by waves on Oahu
Author : c420
Score : 54 points
Date : 2025-07-22 23:05 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.sfgate.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.sfgate.com)
| Oarch wrote:
| Warning for others, this website opened a new tab, forwarded to
| Booking.com and hijacked my back button.
| caesil wrote:
| AP story: https://apnews.com/article/hawaiian-petroglyphs-
| tides-ocean-...
| antonvs wrote:
| That's wild. I vaguely thought sfgate was a reasonably
| reputable site.
| lurk2 wrote:
| A ton of news websites do this now, navigating to a "Before
| you go..." page when you hit the back button. I've always
| suspected this kind of behavior has a lot to do with why
| people don't read articles anymore. You know what you're
| getting when you open a comment section on Reddit, Hacker
| News, or Twitter. The majority of other websites are going to
| be borderline impossible to view on mobile.
| rudasn wrote:
| Chrome with JS disabled works good enough for me on mobile.
| It's also easy to whitelist specific sites. But mostly, if
| I get a blank page I just go back.
| aspenmayer wrote:
| That is extremely interesting. Booking.com is driving _a lot_
| of traffic, as I have outlined previously on HN:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44481590
| akshay_trikha wrote:
| > The shoreline is publicly accessible, but parking at the Army's
| recreation center requires military ID.
|
| There's something poetically sad about this.
| Telemakhos wrote:
| I've have never before heard a parking situation described in
| poetic terms. I might go take a long walk on a beach to ponder
| that.
| adastra22 wrote:
| "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
| labster wrote:
| Were used to it in Malibu. The publicly owned shoreline can be
| reached through the legally mandated passageways, if you can
| make it through the locked gates and avoid being seen by
| security.
| natebc wrote:
| It's the same in ... well at least some of the continental
| states. Georgia for sure has mandated public access (mostly)
| and the beaches cannot be privately owned, specifically up to
| the high watermark. We used to use this to swim over and surf
| on Sea Island ... much to the chagrin of their rent-a-cops!
| wildzzz wrote:
| It's basically a small Army base adjacent to most of the beach
| so that's why you can't park there. There's some public parking
| at the public access area at the south end. If you owned a
| house that was up against a private beach, I doubt you'd let
| people park in your driveway or cut through your yard to access
| it.
| mallomarmeasle wrote:
| Trying to wrap my head around the term "cultural practitioner",
| even after looking it up. Don't we all transmit our culture?
| pryelluw wrote:
| "One who demonstrates and interprets cultural practices to
| people from other cultures, often as a means of cultural
| preservation."
|
| https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cultural_practitioner
|
| Imagine a "tour guide" focused on their own culture.
| sema4hacker wrote:
| "Uncovered" should be "once again uncovered".
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