Hacker News: camtarn

New comment by camtarn in "Proposed UK data centres could pay £100M in deposits for power demands"

camtarn — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:50:16 +0000

Title edited a bit to clarify that it's UK datacentres, and that it's specifically proposed ones - apparently the network is being swamped by speculative applications for grid connection and this might help weed out the non-serious candidates.

Original title was "Data centres could pay hundreds of millions in deposits for power demands"

Proposed UK data centres could pay £100M in deposits for power demands

camtarn — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:43:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9q90q9qnn2o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096184

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

Shanay-Timpishka, a boiling hot river 700km from the nearest active volcano

camtarn — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:32:30 +0000

Article URL: https://terradaily.com/anything-that-falls-into-a-four-kilometre-stretch-of-a-river-in-the-central-peruvian-amazon-dies-within-seconds-because-the-water-reaches-temperatures-of-up-to-100-degrees-celsius-despite-the-river/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942065

Points: 65

# Comments: 14

New comment by camtarn in "Half-Baked Product"

camtarn — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:34:25 +0000

Sadly it's true. I've seen people just put the dishes in the dish rack and let the soap bubbles slide off them.

New comment by camtarn in "Electromagnetic Feedback: Making an electronic sound sculpture [video]"

camtarn — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:01:39 +0000

This one has a digital oscillator, but uses a coil of wire wrapped around a loudspeaker to introduce feedback into the audio path. This somehow gives a really nice 'roughness' to the sound.

Electromagnetic Feedback: Making an electronic sound sculpture [video]

camtarn — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:00:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoP-mSCzevc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182062

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Dynamic Dialects – ultrasound imaging of the tongue across different UK dialects

camtarn — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:01:14 +0000

Article URL: https://dynamicdialects.ac.uk/accent-map/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041541

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by camtarn in "Show HN: Triclock – A Triangular Clock"

camtarn — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:35:21 +0000

The Flux mode is really pretty!

New comment by camtarn in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

camtarn — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:00:11 +0000

CRI of 80 is not great. From my reading, you want CRI 90 if you want light that's pleasant to exist in.

New comment by camtarn in "Native Linux VST plugin directory"

camtarn — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:54:12 +0000

Yabridge works, and it's frankly incredible that it works at all, but it has some trouble figuring out where I'm clicking on EZDrummer. It's gotten better in the latest version of Linux Mint but it's still a bit off.

New comment by camtarn in "Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need"

camtarn — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:34:59 +0000

Huh, I had one of those Thinkpads and I had no idea that this was a thing!

New comment by camtarn in "Is The Line dead? [video]"

camtarn — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:52:15 +0000

As the headline is a question, the response is of course 'no', but it's a good video on the current state of it nonetheless.

Is The Line dead? [video]

camtarn — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:51:08 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46325250

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by camtarn in "Classical statues were not painted horribly"

camtarn — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:22:12 +0000

You can still sometimes find mushroom ketchup in UK supermarkets. It tastes a bit like Worcester sauce (spicy and 'brown' tasting), but milder as it has no anchovies in it.

New comment by camtarn in "Rats Play DOOM"

camtarn — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:39:11 +0000

That's the previous setup from four years ago, where the rats just run down a straight corridor.

New comment by camtarn in "Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter"

camtarn — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:44:02 +0000

I've had a coffee from a high end bean to cup machines, installed in a conference room at our vebdor's headquarters, which used fresh milk and made a better cappuccino than I've had from real humans at many chain coffee shops. They might be rare, but they're out there.

Imperial 'Good Companion' Model T typewriter manual (1938) [pdf]

camtarn — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:31:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.londontypewriters.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/London-Typewriters-Imperial-Good-Companion-Model-T-instruction-manual-English.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185958

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by camtarn in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

camtarn — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:32:01 +0000

Bit of a mixed bag for me. There are a lot of things that work remarkably well, but I have some issues with GPU performance (Cyberpunk 2077 just doesn't run well on Linux for me, despite running great on Windows on the same PC, and GPU-heavy apps like Insta360 Studio and Topaz Denoise run excruciatingly slow or not at all) and some things just don't work (my audio VST plugins work alright, albeit with some bugs about window position handling, but I can't get some of the licensing apps to work under WINE).

New comment by camtarn in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

camtarn — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:25:57 +0000

Java edition can also use Realms. I'm playing on a realm using Linux Java edition and the official launcher now.

New comment by camtarn in "Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?"

camtarn — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:38:37 +0000

I'd prefer to run Linux, but one of my two primary dev targets requires a proprietary Windows IDE (Automation Studio by B&R). So running that on Windows then using WSL to develop for my Linux servers is the easy path.