Hacker News with Generative AI: Ireland

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 16 days ago | 4 comments

The Story of Irish Hip Hop (redbull.com)

Music, Ireland, Hip Hop

13 points by dylancollins 40 days ago | 0 comments

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

Ireland, Deforestation, Environment, Conservation

66 points by dnetesn 49 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 52 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 53 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 65 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 91 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 91 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 97 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 111 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 112 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 115 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 115 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 128 days ago | 133 comments

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

History, Digitization, Art, Ireland

415 points by ColinWright 138 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 143 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 146 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 163 days ago | 95 comments

Apple owes billions in Irish back taxes (theregister.com)
Following an eight-year legal tussle, Europe's highest court has ruled in a "final judgment" that Apple benefited from massive tax breaks after Ireland contravened EU state aid rules.

Apple, Taxes, Ireland, Law, European Union

39 points by latexr 164 days ago | 5 comments

Irish museum solves mystery of Bronze Age axe heads delivered in porridge box (theguardian.com)
When the national museum of Ireland received two 4,000-year-old axe heads, “thoughtfully” wrapped in foam inside a porridge box, from an anonymous source last month, it put out an appeal.

History, Archaeology, Museums, Ireland

91 points by speckx 164 days ago | 84 comments

16th Century Irish Hipsters (irisharchaeology.ie)

History, Ireland, Culture

25 points by slater 171 days ago | 5 comments

Russians may have been mapping cables off Ireland since 2014, expert claims (irishexaminer.com)

Ireland, Russia, Geopolitics, Cybersecurity, Espionage

10 points by austinallegro 172 days ago | 1 comments

'We all read like hell ' How Ireland became the literary powerhouse (theguardian.com)

Ireland, Literature, Culture

9 points by speckx 184 days ago | 0 comments

X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum (fortune.com)