The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake
- ID
- 14639
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 16 Aug 2026, 12:53 AM
- Fetched
- 17 Aug 2026, 10:24 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://www.core77.com/posts/144869
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 0.0
- Created
- 17 Aug 2026, 10:27 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- -
What happened
An architecture article about Loosdrecht, Netherlands, where residents live on narrow strips of manmade land in a lake—remnants of historical peat mining where strips were left to dry the harvested peat. Developers later built boat-access-only homes on these strips.
Why it matters
This has no practical relevance to AI/ML, developers, startups, or Malaysian tech. Skip it.
Discussion angle
None—this is off-topic for the segment.