Hacker News: rowanajmarshall

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

rowanajmarshall — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:17:32 +0000

Europe is a gigantic manufacturer of vast quantities of goods. It has not deindustrialised at all.

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

rowanajmarshall — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:35:25 +0000

Two choropleth map projects I've wanted to make for a while:

https://housepricedashboard.co.uk - shows a visualisation of house prices in England and Wales since the 90s, with filters for house types, real vs nominal, and change views over time

https://councilatlas.co.uk - similar structure to the above, but focusing on local council datasets. The idea is to make it easier to compare your local council's performance against the rest of the country.

UK chip startup Fractile to expand UK operations with £100M investment

rowanajmarshall — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:49:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/uk-chip-startup-fractile-to-expand-uk-operations-with-100m-investment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958476

Points: 1

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New comment by rowanajmarshall in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

rowanajmarshall — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:29:01 +0000

Already a feature, you can switch between nominal or inflation adjusted in the Change View panel -https://housepricedashboard.co.uk/?tab=change&start=2014&end...

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

rowanajmarshall — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:02:24 +0000

Ah shoot, it's not .com, it's .co.uk. So https://housepricedashboard.co.uk.

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

rowanajmarshall — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:22:57 +0000

I actually wrote a webapp to show this, check it out - https://housepricedashboard.co.uk/

London house prices are falling quite a lot in real terms.

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

rowanajmarshall — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:45:50 +0000

https://rowanajmarshall.co.uk. There's a couple fun stuff in there, including some recipes I like, links to stuff I wrote, and a live sleep meter.

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

rowanajmarshall — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:24:42 +0000

I've been practicing with Claude Code and creating a webapp I wished exists every time I've moved house - https://housepricedashboard.co.uk

I've spent a lot of time combing through Rightmove and Zoopla getting an idea of housing costs in different areas, now I can do it in seconds.

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "The next two years of software engineering"

rowanajmarshall — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:26:13 +0000

As much as I appreciate the difference between literal infinity and consumers' demand for software, there's just so much bad software out there waiting to be improved that I can't see us hitting saturation soon.

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

rowanajmarshall — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:34:10 +0000

I think the downside is the developers who love the action of coding managed to accomplish several things at once - they got to code, and create things, and get paid lots for doing it.

AI coding makes creating things far more efficient (as long as you use AI), and will likely mean you don't get paid much (unless you use AI).

You can still code for the fun of it, but you don't get the ancillary benefits.

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "Show HN: 25 years of house prices in England and Wales"

rowanajmarshall — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:34:08 +0000

They're pretty extraordinary, but funny thing is the expensive bits of London (central, west, and bits of north) have fallen the most in real terms over the last decade!

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "Show HN: 25 years of house prices in England and Wales"

rowanajmarshall — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:30:32 +0000

Ach, sorry! iOS is the one common platform I don't have easy access to.

Show HN: 25 years of house prices in England and Wales

rowanajmarshall — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:37:49 +0000

Article URL: https://housepricedashboard.co.uk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46519825

Points: 15

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New comment by rowanajmarshall in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

rowanajmarshall — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:33:13 +0000

Then you should also look at Wayve (self-driving cars, $1 billion Series C), Lighthouse (travel and rental data, $370 million Series C), Highview Power (novel energy storage, £300 million). Lots more too. I won't deny that the UK specialises in fintech, but there's a lot more going on than that.

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

rowanajmarshall — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:40:50 +0000

> Good luck getting a farm-tech startup funded, no-one will take a punt.

There are so, so many examples of British agtech companies getting funded:

https://www.lettusgrow.com/blog/2020/1/9/press-release-uk-ag...

https://edinburgh-innovations.ed.ac.uk/news/roslin-technolog...

https://fischerfarms.co.uk/fischer-farms-secures-26m-funding...

https://tropic.bio/tropic-biosciences-raises-28-5-million-se...

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "The Barbican"

rowanajmarshall — Tue, 13 May 2025 07:44:08 +0000

> There was not only no dishwasher, there was literally no space for a dishwasher.

This is just London, out of the 8 years I've spent here, 3 of them were spent with a dishwasher. Tbh I've got a dishwasher now and barely use it.

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem"

rowanajmarshall — Thu, 08 May 2025 10:46:00 +0000

I run a Mistral model on my phone!

New comment by rowanajmarshall in "The coming knowledge-work supply-chain crisis"

rowanajmarshall — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 03:31:16 +0000

> Replacing blue collar workers for robots hasn't been super duper great.

That's just not true. Tractors, combine harvesters, dishwashers washing machines, excavators, we've repeatedly revolutionised blue-collar work, made it vastly, extraordinary more efficient.

Pope Francis has died

rowanajmarshall — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:07:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/crknlnzlrzdt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749449

Points: 221

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Green belt site near M25 to host Europe's largest AI data centre

rowanajmarshall — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:53:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cityam.com/green-belt-site-near-m25-to-host-europes-largest-ai-data-centre/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42814973

Points: 1

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