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Alastair Philip Wiper
Personal blog · alastairphilipwiper.com/blogculturedesign
Alastair Philip Wiper's personal blog at alastairphilipwiper.com covers culture and design. Since 2014, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Copenhagen Suborbitals”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link posts about building very large ships, including the world's biggest ship built over 53 days, and about Copenhagen Suborbitals. Commenters cite them as background for ship-building discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Photographer. Inside the weird and the wonderful world of industry and science.
Most-linked posts?
- Copenhagen Suborbitals2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-19
- Building the Largest Ship in the World2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-18
What Hacker News says?
Amazing we have the tech to build that now. I saw a segment on TV with wind turbines from 30 years ago compared to today and they were practically toys compared to the current behemoths. How do the sides of the ship not collapse before they assemble it in this photo: http://alastairphilipwiper.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/... or is that what the pylons on the side are there for?
Comment linking /blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Maersk-Triple-E-c-Alastair-Philip-Wiper-1-3.jpg
on “Building the Largest Ship in the World”Submitted Building the Largest Ship in the World as a story · 241 points
HN discussionUrl changed from http://alastairphilipwiper.com/blog/copenhagen-suborbitals/ , which points to this.
Comment linking /blog/copenhagen-suborbitals/
on “Copenhagen Suborbitals”Submitted Copenhagen Suborbitals as a story · 69 points
HN discussionIn case you're asking for an order of magnitude, the last vessel presented on HN talked about 10 levels of containers outside and 11 inside. I recommend at least looking at the pictures. And they're building 20 of those ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8476222 http://alastairphilipwiper.com/blog/building-largest-ship-wo...
Comment linking /blog/building-largest-ship-world-south-korea/
on “The world's biggest ship – for 53 days”Submitted A Playmobil Factory in Malta as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the largest ship in the world (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Secret City: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nike, Oregon USA as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Project Greek Island as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building the Largest Ship in the World, South Korea (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted People in Asia really really really like babies as a story · 1 points
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