Hacker News with Generative AI: Ireland

Ugly infrastructure: Why can't we have nice things? (jordanwtaylor2.substack.com)
I remember the first time I drove over the Mary McAleese bridge. It was less of a water crossing and more like passing through a gateway. This, it seemed to say, is a country that does great things. A towering crenellation summits the cable-stayed beauty, perched on two impossible looking legs straddling the bridge into the Boyne valley below.

Architecture, Infrastructure, Ireland

47 points by bilsbie 6 days ago | 70 comments

Stripe: 'I am baffled by companies doing an about-face on social initiatives' (irishtimes.com)
If you wanted to find an interesting Irish success story, Stripe co-founder John Collison would be up there with the best.

Business, Ireland, Technology, Social Responsibility

13 points by reillyse 8 days ago | 6 comments

Ireland given two months to implement hate speech laws or face action from EU (thejournal.ie)
IRELAND HAS TWO months to begin implementing hate speech laws or face being taken to the Court of Justice of the EU.

Law, Ireland, European Union, Politics

47 points by like_any_other 13 days ago | 147 comments

UCD Spin-Out Launches First Quantum Computing Server (ucd.ie)
Equal1, an Irish quantum computing company, and University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out company, has unveiled Bell-1, the first quantum system purpose-built for the HPC (high performance computing) era.

Quantum Computing, Ireland, University, Technology

3 points by gnabgib 16 days ago | 0 comments

Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China (apnews.com)
Drones strike ship carrying aid to Gaza, organizers say

Privacy, Ireland, TikTok, China, Data Transfers

360 points by Alifatisk 21 days ago | 237 comments

Irishman's universal evolution theory challenges accepted cosmology (irishtimes.com)
It all started with a big bang has been the commonly accepted origin story of our universe for decades. But what if it’s wrong?

Cosmology, Physics, Science, Ireland

13 points by paulpauper 26 days ago | 11 comments

Intel to cut 20pc of global workforce, putting Irish jobs at risk (independent.ie)
Intel is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20pc of its staff, aiming to eliminate bureaucracy at the struggling chipmaker, it is understood.

Intel, Layoffs, Technology, Ireland, Business

4 points by austinallegro 30 days ago | 1 comments

Preserving Ireland's Bogs– Memory, Identity, and the Path Forward (worldsensorium.com)
Ireland’s bogs are more than landscapes; they are living archives of history, memory, and cultural identity.

Environment, History, Ireland, Culture

10 points by dnetesn 37 days ago | 0 comments

North Korea targets Irish tech sector with undercover workers (rte.ie)
Ireland's technology sector is being targeted by a North Korean government operation aimed at raising and extorting funds for its nuclear weapons programme, a senior threat intelligence analyst with Google has told Prime Time.

Cybersecurity, North Korea, Ireland, Government Operations, Technology

3 points by austinallegro 38 days ago | 0 comments

'Netflix levy' would 'price out' consumers (rte.ie)
Minister for Media Patrick O'Donovan has expressed his opposition to proposals for a levy on streaming services like Netflix, saying that people would be priced out of being able to purchase entertainment services.

Streaming Services, Ireland, Media, Politics

7 points by austinallegro 47 days ago | 10 comments

Revealed – The Largest Pirate Radio Operator, the Irish Catholic Church (blogspot.com)
Yet by 2020 we are in the midst of a pirate radio phenomenon that is being led by the clergy of the Irish Catholic Church.

Ireland, Religion, Media, History

4 points by austinallegro 61 days ago | 1 comments

Lucky young couple lands gig taking care of uninhabited Irish island (cbc.ca)
Camille Rosenfeld and James Hayes have landed what feels like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The young couple has been chosen to be the caretakers of one of Ireland's most remote and breathtaking locations: Great Blasket Island.

Jobs, Ireland, Travel, Lifestyle

22 points by colinprince 77 days ago | 3 comments

New Irish AI minister has never used ChatGPT (independent.ie)
The new junior minister whose brief includes artificial intelligence (AI) oversight admits she has much to learn about the evolving technology and will have to get to grips with it fast.

Artificial Intelligence, Ireland, Politics, Technology

5 points by conoro 107 days ago | 4 comments

The Story of Irish Hip Hop (redbull.com)

Music, Ireland, Hip Hop

13 points by dylancollins 131 days ago | 0 comments

Ireland has lost almost all its native forests (worldsensorium.com)

Ireland, Deforestation, Environment, Conservation

66 points by dnetesn 140 days ago | 18 comments

Pee.ie – Public Toilets Near Me Ireland (pee.ie)
Welcome to pee.ie, the definitive list of public toilets in Ireland. It’s a shared Google map so once opened on your phone (click the square in the top right corner) you can refer back to it whenever needed.

Ireland, Public Toilets, Mobile Applications

58 points by austinallegro 143 days ago | 35 comments

Painstaking work to conserve Ireland's oldest paper documents begins (theguardian.com)
Work has begun to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.

History, Conservation, Ireland, Digitization, Documents

12 points by bookofjoe 144 days ago | 3 comments

When Two Hemispheres Collide: Where to Now for Rewilding in Ireland? (worldsensorium.com)
When Two Hemispheres Collide: Where to now for rewilding in Ireland?

Rewilding, Ireland, Conservation, Environmentalism, Geography

81 points by dnetesn 156 days ago | 21 comments

For the Love of a Little Sea (hakaimagazine.com)
The birthplace of experimental marine biology is in decline. Will Ireland rally to save it?

Marine Biology, Ireland, Conservation

19 points by benbreen 182 days ago | 0 comments

The Nursery of the Mac – Apple Computer factory in Cork, Ireland (1996) (rgaros.nl)
Ireland is a beautiful holiday destination: green, quiet, beautiful nature, good beer and kind people. But when a Mac-freak like René Ros is on vacation in Ireland he hás to visit the Apple factory in Cork. Armed with lots of RAM memory in the upper chamber and a anti-static heal band he was allowed in.

Apple, Ireland, Technology, History, Manufacturing

70 points by Lammy 182 days ago | 43 comments

Russian spy ship confirmed to be operating near cables off Dublin (rte.ie)
A Russian spy ship has been operating near subsea cables in the Irish Sea just north of Dublin in recent days, according to vessel tracking data and military sources.

Russia, Espionage, Military, Ireland, Cybersecurity

17 points by austinallegro 189 days ago | 1 comments

Thousands go to fake AI-invented Dublin Halloween parade (euronews.com)
Irish revellers flooded the streets of Dublin expecting a Halloween parade last night. The only problem? No parade had been organised.

Artificial Intelligence, Events, Ireland, Halloween, Misinformation

7 points by techolic 202 days ago | 1 comments

Crowds gather in Dublin for fake Halloween parade posted on social media (thejournal.ie)
GARDAÍ HAVE ASKED hundreds of people who have gathered on O’Connell Street in Dublin city centre to disperse after a fake ‘Halloween parade’ was advertised online.

Social Media, Misinformation, Events, Ireland, Dublin

26 points by intunderflow 203 days ago | 13 comments

Why are librarians up in arms over ebooks? (rte.ie)
Ireland's public libraries are hugely popular with millions of visitors each year and academic libraries are an essential part of third level education.

Libraries, Ebooks, Ireland

9 points by austinallegro 206 days ago | 0 comments

Much of Ireland Is an Ecological Desert. Meet the Man Who Wants to Rewild It (nytimes.com)
Is Ireland really all that green? Ecologically speaking, the answer is no, says Eoghan Daltun, a sculptor who restored a patch of native rainforest in the Beara Peninsula, on the country’s rugged southwestern coast.

Environment, Ireland, Conservation, Rewilding

45 points by aa_is_op 206 days ago | 19 comments

Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives (theguardian.com)
The transition year led Paul Mescal and Cillian Murphy to become actors – and has had similarly seismic effects on thousands of secondary school students. Should other countries follow suit?

Education, Ireland, Teenagers, Social Impact

205 points by joveian 219 days ago | 133 comments

The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online (openculture.com)

History, Digitization, Art, Ireland

415 points by ColinWright 229 days ago | 98 comments

Irish finance minister calls €14B tax windfall from Apple 'transformational' (theguardian.com)
The Irish finance minister has hailed the €14bn tax windfall from Apple as “transformational” just weeks after the government lost a case in the European court of justice arguing the tech company should keep its money.

Business, Ireland, Taxes, Technology

34 points by adrian_mrd 234 days ago | 17 comments

Meta fined $102M for storing passwords in plain text (engadget.com)
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has slapped Meta with a $101.5 million (€91 million) fine after wrapping up an investigation into a security breach in 2019, wherein the company mistakenly stored users' passwords in plain text.

Data Privacy, Security, Facebook, Ireland, Law

165 points by redbell 237 days ago | 124 comments

Show HN: How much is 13B euros? (howmuchis13billioneuros.com)
There's a lot of chatter in the Irish news about 13 billion euros or 14 billions euros.

Currency Conversion, Ireland, News

117 points by dndn1 254 days ago | 95 comments