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Dan Stowell
Personal blog · mcld.co.uk/blogprogrammingscience
Dan Stowell's personal blog at mcld.co.uk covers programming and science. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite Dan Stowell's blog posts on generative art and UK copyright and on analogue versus digital clocks, plus an HIV simulation, as references. None judge the writing itself.
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.
What Hacker News says?
This has been an open question for a while, and is in the process of being figures out. Some fun examples: - "Generative art and UK copyright law - good news", http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2011/generative-art-and-uk-copyright-... - "Template License and Collaboration Agreements for AI Art" https://clinic.cyber.harvard.edu/2019/02/04/template-license...
Comment linking /blog/2011/generative-art-and-uk-copyright-law-good-news.html
on “Yacht fed their old music to the machine and got a killer new album”Submitted Reverse-engineering the rave hoover as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is an older 3d Java simulation at http://www.mcld.co.uk/hiv/?q=3D%20HIV
Comment linking /hiv/?q=3D%20HIV
on “HIV as you've never seen it before”That is definitely not true - I have an analog wrist watch (and am under 30). Also, there can be benefits to the use of analog clocks: in some circumstances they're quicker to read the time off of. http://www.mcld.co.uk/blog/2006/digital-vs-analogue-clocks.h...
Comment linking /blog/2006/digital-vs-analogue-clocks.html
on “Europe pushing for lunar time zone”