Hacker News: osullish

New comment by osullish in "Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation"

osullish — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:29:53 +0000

Yeah, it's great stuff - you can drink skips of the stuff and no hangover - well me 20 years ago could! I've great memories of sitting around on those tiny stools with friends - such a different drinking experience from home in Ireland

New comment by osullish in "Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests"

osullish — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:53:44 +0000

Sometimes when I read things like this I despair - AI could be game changing, targetting complex issues around health, genetics etc. Instead its deployed mainly in the continued transfer of wealth from the ordinary man to the billionaire classes. We're ripe for a 'French' style revolution.

New comment by osullish in "Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation"

osullish — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:05:17 +0000

I work in the same building as Pintrest - they have prime real estate in the centre of Dublin, with an office that looks to be tricked out to the max - and sometimes I see some people in there, but nowhere near the numbers the space can accommodate.

New comment by osullish in "Choosing a Name for Your Computer"

osullish — Wed, 14 May 2025 21:57:12 +0000

My daily driver is called Unicorse - my favourite character from Bluey

New comment by osullish in "Martin Amis and the pursuit of pleasure"

osullish — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 23:09:38 +0000

I adore Money and London Fields. The zone of interest is a masterpiece. The man was one of the most consistently creative and interesting writers we've seen. I'd also wager he would be good fun to go on a pinting session with

New comment by osullish in "Starbucks: Is trouble brewing at the coffee giant?"

osullish — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 06:22:58 +0000

That's a pity, sacrificing quality and end user experience to squeeze another dollar out of the system. Reminds me of Cadbury chocolate, when I was a kid it was incredible - a real treat. Now it's waxy mush full of palm oil, all to squeeze more profits.

New comment by osullish in "Starbucks: Is trouble brewing at the coffee giant?"

osullish — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 05:54:21 +0000

Not sure if it's an issue localised to Ireland, but I've avoided Starbucks since I started seriously drinking coffee - not because of the price, but any cup I've had (and they're more akin to buckets) has had that bitter finish that over roasted/burnt beans bring to the table. Still the way Dublin is going, it's going to be hard to avoid places like Starbucks, Cafe Nero etc. soon - smaller places being priced out of the market.

New comment by osullish in "Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?"

osullish — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:59:34 +0000

I find that subject facinating - can you recommend any resources or literature on this? I'm not religious, but I find relegion facinating!

New comment by osullish in "The cruel Thames: the job of pulling bodies from a dark, dangerous river"

osullish — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 09:23:03 +0000

Love that season of the Wire. I'm from rural Ireland and there is a body of water near my home that is a suicide hotspot - 2 towns on the same river have given their share of young men to it unfortunately.

New comment by osullish in "Shane MacGowan has died"

osullish — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:27:59 +0000

I've always maintained this is the greatest set of lyrics ever put together. Love, loss, war, ptsd - it is up there with the finest poems and sonnets ever composed.

New comment by osullish in "Shane MacGowan has died"

osullish — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:23:48 +0000

An absolute wordsmith, 'a pair of brown eyes' is as close to a perfect song. Novels of thousands of pages haven't told a story as deeply as that song. His version of the Band played waltzing Matilda is one of the most moving songs I've ever heard - and amazingly wrote fairytale of New York as a bet, when Elvis Costello bet him he couldn't write a Christmas song.

New comment by osullish in "Safety benefits of roundabouts"

osullish — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:59:55 +0000

I’m from rural Ireland, and I always remember my first roundabout - I used go driving with my dad when learning, and as the weeks progressed I’d get closer and closer to Killarney which was the nearest town. Coming from our side the first thing you meet is a roundabout with 3 exits, one bringing you out the roads that bypass the town, one to the town centre, and one to a housing estate off the roundabout. As I joined the roundabout I met a woman driving against me on the roundabout taking a shortcut to her exit of the housing estate - frightened the shit outta 16 year old me, my dad was spooked too. I managed to make room enough for her to pass - she was oblivious. My dad actually knew her, lived there all her life, she must have driven that road 1000 times - how often was she taking that shortcut

New comment by osullish in "Edgar Allan Poe's America"

osullish — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 06:07:53 +0000

I started this last night and quickly lashed through 2 episodes - really enjoying it. Very it's got a good Succession horror vibe to it.

New comment by osullish in "A history of Ireland in 100 goodbyes"

osullish — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:34:29 +0000

I love that Roy Keane has 5% of these entries. Saipan was nearly the beginning of a civil war in this country!

New comment by osullish in "Sinead O’Connor has died"

osullish — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:25:49 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_...

New comment by osullish in "Sinead O’Connor has died"

osullish — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:54:11 +0000

Same in Ireland, some high profile cases were prosecuted- but not the majority, and nothing happened the nuns - especially the evil that ran the mother and baby homes. 300+ babies discarded in a septic tank.

New comment by osullish in "Sinead O’Connor has died"

osullish — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:44:14 +0000

I think his last sentence doesn't go far enough - I'm not sure how far I'd need to go to describe someone who covered up systemic child abuse on a global scale

New comment by osullish in "The Difference Between European and American Butter"

osullish — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 07:43:14 +0000

I'm from Kerry and it makes me so proud to hear everyone praising Kerrygold. It really is an incredible product. My grandfather worked all his life with Kerry Co-Op which was Kerry group started as. I'll bet when he was driving the milk trucks for over north Kerry into Listowel he didn't know he was helping start as global success story 50 years ago.

New comment by osullish in "Maxi Jazz has died"

osullish — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 19:57:49 +0000

Saw them years ago at a festival in Ireland, they were due on before the Stereophonics - thankfully for everyone, including the stereophonics, they were delayed at customs and ended up closing the night. Utterly insane gig, they were absolutely brilliant and the poor old milquetoast Stereophonics would have struggled to follow them. RIP - keep tearing off those tights with your teeth

New comment by osullish in "Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun"

osullish — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 10:06:23 +0000

If true, I find the 'print out the code you wrote in the last 30-60 days' very grim and a very blunt tool for evaluating productivity.