Hacker News: ablanton

New comment by ablanton in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

ablanton — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:51:32 +0000

I'm so happy to see Nick Collins taking this on. If you haven't seen his book, Handmade Music, it's an excellent book for music projects. This contribution looks exceptional as well.

New comment by ablanton in "A look inside Dialector, filmmaker Chris Marker's chatbot from 1988"

ablanton — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:50:51 +0000

I love Chris Markers work so much, this essay is mind blowing. I had no idea he knew how to program or created a second life

New comment by ablanton in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

ablanton — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:57:30 +0000

It’s a synthesizer, I might change it soon though

https://www.andrewblanton.com

New comment by ablanton in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

ablanton — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:15:09 +0000

I'm at year 1.5 and built this software for making small art books

https://zine.baby

The goal is to make physical books. It's still early days, but fun to see what people are creating.

New comment by ablanton in "Yet another bad three months as Tesla reports its Q2 2025 results"

ablanton — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:09:40 +0000

It’s like a master class in how to burn down a company. He alienated his core customer base.

New comment by ablanton in "Show HN: I modeled the Voynich Manuscript with SBERT to test for structure"

ablanton — Sun, 18 May 2025 18:07:51 +0000

Wasn't it already deciphered, though?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368991190_The_Voyni...

New comment by ablanton in "Pure Data: an open source visual language for multimedia"

ablanton — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 17:42:09 +0000

PD is great, what other language is working towards a 30 year backward compatibility!

New comment by ablanton in "History of the Salvator Mundi"

ablanton — Mon, 09 May 2022 22:56:37 +0000

Hito Steyerl has a nice talk on XR technology that starts with this work. (talk starts at about 6:30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Qhy0_PCjs

New comment by ablanton in "Beetle walking upside down under water surface filmed in Australia"

ablanton — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 07:41:55 +0000

I bet his toilet flushes the other way too!!

New comment by ablanton in "FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says"

ablanton — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:25:54 +0000

I love how now this issue is alright to talk about on hacker news. For some reason when it was happening and all of the alarms were going off, it was banned content on hacker news. Technology is inherently political with political ramifications. -_-

New comment by ablanton in "There’s Something Fishy About the Other Nefertiti"

ablanton — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:27:56 +0000

there is a lot of press around this work but seems derivative of material speculation ISIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL6e-kEkur0

3D Printing Sculptures Destroyed by ISIS

ablanton — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 06:04:49 +0000

Article URL: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/feb/16/morehshin-allahyari/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11115690

Points: 2

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New comment by ablanton in "Twitter's new timeline feature"

ablanton — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:37:23 +0000

I left facebook for this exact reason. the platform has diminished so greatly that it's now virtually unusable to me.I'm really not sure what to equate the experience to, it feels like trying to read a newspaper that is all ads. It's all vapid useless sales instead of meaningful interpersonal connections over long distances... the way it started. I fear twitter is not far behind.

New comment by ablanton in "Jack Dorsey: “We never planned to reorder timelines next week.”"

ablanton — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:25:01 +0000

Hey hey good joke! If every web service was as bad as g or fb we could all enjoy a internet that acts more like cable television...

New comment by ablanton in "The Art World’s Patron Satan"

ablanton — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 03:25:57 +0000

The article is a little annoying in its portrayal of artist being completely unaware. A really good discussion broke out on Paddy Johnson's (artfcity) fb page where Simchowitz chimed in. I'm glad to see it on hn though ~ I think there are many analogues to the tech scene and many younger builders/hackers/engineers. I think it's a symptom of wildly speculative markets with potential major payoffs and few regulations.

New comment by ablanton in "A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe"

ablanton — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 00:37:09 +0000

just to be clear, tuition is inversely proportional to the amount of funding the government gives to higher education:

http://www.vpcomm.umich.edu/pa/key/understandingtuition.html

New comment by ablanton in "Show HN: Theremin I/O"

ablanton — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:58:38 +0000

check out standaloneV2 as well https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/standalonev2/id656556702?mt=..., works similar but based on sound waves and is free for the month as a part of the wrong biennial http://thewrong.org/

New comment by ablanton in "The computer rig of the Philip Glass Ensemble"

ablanton — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:29:47 +0000

bidule is fine but max/msp is much more interesting from a audio software/programing environment.