Hacker News: martinclayton

New comment by martinclayton in "David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88"

martinclayton — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:17:55 +0000

His work with photography influenced my thinking in the 1980s. The ideas of viewing time and moving focus I think are significant in human experience.

He talks about it, and you can see some of these works in a YT vid here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz5vWgKy2Sc

New comment by martinclayton in "World Capitals Voronoi"

martinclayton — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:27:32 +0000

Dublin knabs a decent chunk of Great Britain, Copenhagen gets southern Sweden. Seems fair.

New comment by martinclayton in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

martinclayton — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:42:10 +0000

Tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars for listing. But they make money from the trading and associated services they facilitate, hence the desire to have the largest most liquid stocks.

https://resourcehub.bakermckenzie.com/en/resources/cross-bor...

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/050515/how-n...

New comment by martinclayton in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

martinclayton — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:28:28 +0000

Yeah, indeed. See (march) https://www.reuters.com/business/new-nasdaq-rules-include-fa...

Quote from Cameron Lilja, Nasdaq's global head of index solutions:

"It is not necessarily representative to have a company that's big and could have a sizable representation in the index to keep them out for that long," Lilja said in an interview. "We're seeing share and corporate structures change - and companies that are staying private considerably longer are thus growing to be truly mega-cap companies before they even come to the public markets."

There's been fewer IPOs recently so Nasdaq and competitors are all racing to woo the few big ones to list with them.

New comment by martinclayton in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

martinclayton — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:26:18 +0000

What's the rationale offered by NASDAQ for their new "15-days and you're in the index" rule for these massive IPOs?

Seems equivalent to removing road safety rules for the least-tested, most-powerful new vehicles only.

New comment by martinclayton in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

martinclayton — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:16:46 +0000

(Agreeing with you) In the 1980s Gary Shilling said:

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

A long-term principle that I think does still apply.

New comment by martinclayton in "Laws of Software Engineering"

martinclayton — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:16:18 +0000

This resonates with "the bitter lesson" somehow, interesting...

...On reading more it seems of use primarily in adversarial situations, so not-so-much resonant.

New comment by martinclayton in "AI for American-produced cement and concrete"

martinclayton — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:58:41 +0000

Wet cement is kind of sloppy, so this makes some sense.

New comment by martinclayton in "Voith Schneider Propeller"

martinclayton — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:31:15 +0000

New comment by martinclayton in "Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion"

martinclayton — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:50:31 +0000

I was expecting regional accent options, so disappointed.

New comment by martinclayton in "xAI joins SpaceX"

martinclayton — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:44:11 +0000

I'm pleased that Blue Origin and others are making progress on reusable flight hardware, because I fear that SpaceX will itself suffer a "RUD" for non-engineering reasons.

New comment by martinclayton in "Show HN: The HN Arcade"

martinclayton — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:13:37 +0000

Added mine ... let's see... https://foximax.com (word puzzle)

New comment by martinclayton in "Let's Decrypt dot org redirects to the NSA"

martinclayton — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:41:22 +0000

Seems Let's Encrypt also have control of https://letsdecrypt.org.

It takes you to https://www.nsa.gov rather than Let's Encrypt home.

Conspiracy? I think not, but others might.

Let's Decrypt dot org redirects to the NSA

martinclayton — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:41:22 +0000

Article URL: https://letsdecrypt.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46216640

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by martinclayton in "10 Years of Let's Encrypt"

martinclayton — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:18:32 +0000

Seems Let's Encrypt also have control of https://letsdecrypt.org.

It takes you to https://www.nsa.gov rather than Let's Encrypt.

Not sure what to make of that!

New comment by martinclayton in "What influence has the BBC had on history?"

martinclayton — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:11:29 +0000

https://archive.is/fbKl4

New comment by martinclayton in "What influence has the BBC had on history?"

martinclayton — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:02:46 +0000

An aside:

I always understood that Broadcasting House was inspiration for Room 101 (Ministry of Love) rather than the MoT.

It's well-known that the University of London Senate House building was the inspiration for the Ministry of Truth. Both the interior and exterior have appeared in many films and TV shows. Seems to come out of the visual creative toolbox when there's a need to evoke oppression or technocratic stultification through architecture, which is a shame as it's rather nice to visit!

New comment by martinclayton in "AI-Assisted Scientific Research?"

martinclayton — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:52:31 +0000

This looks like "science-slop", but why has it been placed at this URL?

AI-Assisted Scientific Research?

martinclayton — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:52:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aims.healthcare

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45979500

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by martinclayton in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

martinclayton — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:04:40 +0000

Nice touch having U2's song "Every Breaking Wave" playing in one of the screen grabs ... that being the second track on the (in)famous "free" 2014 iTunes release of their album "Songs of Innocence".