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Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.
Patrick Boyle's deadpan account of Saudi Arabia's Neom and The Line megaproject, a planned 170 km linear city that has been scaled back to a fraction of its size. He covers the feasibility problems and the financing.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as the entertaining, skeptical overview of Neom whenever its progress comes up.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Patrick Boyle
- Topic
- neom the line
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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It was kind of a duff idea from the start. Patrick Boyles youtube Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City [VIDEO] is rather epic if you haven't seen it.
tim333 on Hacker News · 2025-03
In What Went Wrong at Saudi Arabia's Futuristic Metropolis in the DesertPatrick Boyle's channel on Youtube did a great video on this. [VIDEO] It seems unfeasible, bordering on impossible, and also a terrible idea even if aliens came down and built it for us tomorrow.
karaterobot on Hacker News · 2024-04
In Saudi Arabia's Sci-Fi Megacity in the Desert Isn't Going WellI think not. They probably mean the planned project would use one fifth of the world's steel but it is currently just a hole in the ground and the project is kind of ridiculous and won't get built as planned - even the Saudis don't …
tim333 on Hacker News · 2024-10
In Saudi Arabian Neom project 'uses one fifth of world's steel'
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