[HN Gopher] Growing Up in "404 Not Found" (Part II): The Vanishi...
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       Growing Up in "404 Not Found" (Part II): The Vanishing Nuclear City
        
       Author : Vincent_Yan404
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2025-12-29 22:25 UTC (36 minutes ago)
        
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       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Related:
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       |  _Growing up in "404 Not Found": China 's nuclear city in the
       | Gobi Desert_
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408988
        
         | Vincent_Yan404 wrote:
         | Thanks for linking the first part. I really appreciate the
         | support from this community.
        
       | Vincent_Yan404 wrote:
       | I promised a few people yesterday I'd share Part II today.
       | 
       | First, thank you to Tom (Moderator) and this community for the
       | incredible reception of Part I.
       | 
       | My English writing is still limited (IELTS 6.0), so Part II is
       | also a sentence-by-sentence AI translation. This is an extended
       | version. I added a bit more details that weren't in my original
       | Chinese posts.
       | 
       | Here is the original Chinese version I wrote
       | https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/22190111. You can see the raw
       | narrative before it was translated.
       | 
       | Thank you for reading a story from a non-native speaker trying to
       | bridge the gap with tools.
        
         | WarOnPrivacy wrote:
         | The materials made in 404, were those used to construct the
         | weapons tested at Lop Nor?
        
       | WarOnPrivacy wrote:
       | I can relate with odd bits of this story. I grew up in a rural
       | town during the time when it's Nike missile base was being
       | decommissioned. The base was constructed on penitentiary property
       | and those cold war buildings were taken over by the prison. This
       | was the setting for my boyhood. Endless places for exploring and
       | mischief.
       | 
       | I went back after 2 decades and find the entire area was
       | unrecognizably transformed. The prison moved and most of the area
       | was developed. The town was renamed to distance itself from it's
       | past. Forests were developed into McMansions while some century
       | old fields became forests. The paved road I'd walked thousands of
       | times (connected to our dirt road) was rerouted. It was a super
       | disorienting experience.
        
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