Hacker News: martyvis

New comment by martyvis in "Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia"

martyvis — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:25:10 +0000

It's a reference to the Beatles song Revolution Number 9 which includes a lot of clips like that. It does get old pretty quickly here.

New comment by martyvis in "Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic"

martyvis — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:52:23 +0000

Josh Wardle sold Wordle to the New York Times for at least a million. https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911274/wordle-new-york-...

New comment by martyvis in "Boris Spassky: 1937–2025"

martyvis — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:44:17 +0000

See the board here on Lichess https://lichess.org/study/facg4YUQ/jnXlZXWo

New comment by martyvis in "Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain"

martyvis — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:25:23 +0000

FYI 2600 and 2.6k use the same number of characters.

New comment by martyvis in "Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025"

martyvis — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:44:15 +0000

And Elon says they have run out of training data ...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/09/elon-musk...

New comment by martyvis in "Show HN: Atlas of Space"

martyvis — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:33:04 +0000

It doesn't seem it is showing the tilt for Earth correct. When I zoom in for around now, the North Pole is in full sun rather than mid Winter. (I'm in Australia so I don't know if it is somehow using my local timezone wrongly)

Magnus and Nepo Joint 2024 FIDE World Blitz Chess Champions

martyvis — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 01:01:09 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/FIDE_chess/status/1874247415337017478

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42563101

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by martyvis in "I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps"

martyvis — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 20:00:25 +0000

Actually I have heard the exact opposite of what you are stating is true. Both Google and Apple fight very hard to avoid handing data to authorities. They don't want to be seen as some sort of easy conduit to government surveillance or shill. How does that benefit their reputation? I know of one case where Google spent millions on lawyers fighting government wanting access to an activist's email. Their FAQ here makes their policy pretty clear. https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/9713961...

EChess: Play Online Chess, but over the Board

martyvis — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:21:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/aherve/eChess/blob/main/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42539268

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by martyvis in "Voxon: Real time interactive volumetric holograms"

martyvis — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:26:25 +0000

I wonder how noisy it is - it would have been good to include in the specs.

New comment by martyvis in "Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant"

martyvis — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 03:50:52 +0000

/ All 75 light switches in our new house run Tasmota

75! Can't you just employ a butler? ;-)

Shade Illusion

martyvis — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:59:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RFffta35MY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42325710

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by martyvis in "Geometric line-art of Wacław Szpakowski (2017)"

martyvis — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 10:36:59 +0000

It reminds of the art of M.C.Escher in the sense that it is driven by a mathematical mindset, yet goes beyond mindless repetition. This artist and M.C. Escher would have loved having access to computer drawing program I think.

New comment by martyvis in "Trains Are Offices"

martyvis — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 09:22:35 +0000

I have a 135 minute train ride to my office which I probably undertake once every week or two. Thankfully I can be seated for it and usually have enough room to either work with my laptop or just have a snooze or chillout to some media. While driving might get me their (on a good day) in 30 minutes less time, the train trip is definitely more relaxing and a better investment of my time.

New comment by martyvis in "Drone Incursions over USAF Bases in UK Enter Second Week"

martyvis — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 09:00:11 +0000

The fact that they know about the incursions means that they had least have some defence capability against them.

The Computer History of Australia – Episode 1 CSIR MARK1 [video]

martyvis — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 08:47:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKlsrapdvI0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42280431

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Australian Transport Safety Bureau report – Qantas had tool left in engine

martyvis — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 08:21:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-27/qantas-refutes-safety-bureau-report-listing-series-of-failures/104654270

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42254088

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by martyvis in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

martyvis — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:36:05 +0000

LEO means less RF power and lower latency.

New comment by martyvis in "Using GPS in the Year 1565"

martyvis — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:55:29 +0000

Yes, pretty amazing. While I did have a couple of free tourist maps, I planned and executed a 1700km road trip to New Zealand basically using Google Maps on my laptop and then simply navigated on my phone. It seems incredible that you could entrust everyday's travel plans using this and it just worked. Sure you had to make sure you had downloaded maps (or at least cached) ahead of time for spotty networks. Only 25 years or so ago you absolutely had to have paper maps (and know how to read them) to embark on such a venture

New comment by martyvis in "SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing"

martyvis — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 01:52:50 +0000

I think they have a "build it and they will come" attitude. While their own Mars goals will need 100s if not 1000s of launches they also see new customers that would want launch and even recover much larger payloads than what are feasible today