Hacker News with Generative AI: Ireland

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 5 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 19 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 20 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 22 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 23 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 36 days ago | 133 comments

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

History, Digitization, Art, Ireland

415 points by ColinWright 46 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 51 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 54 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 70 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 72 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 72 days ago | 84 comments

16th Century Irish Hipsters (irisharchaeology.ie)

History, Ireland, Culture

25 points by slater 78 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 80 days ago | 1 comments

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

Ireland, Literature, Culture

9 points by speckx 92 days ago | 0 comments

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