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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.

New comment by camtarn in "Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users"

camtarn — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:09:52 +0000

I really like Darktable, and it's my go to photo editor, but the user interface really isn't intuitive on first look compared to something like Lightroom. The design choice that editing modules should be ordered by their place in the pixel pipeline is logical and sometimes useful, but it ends up with a lot of the controls being in rather weird places. The customisable quick controls palette would help, if it weren't that simple things like cropping can't be added to it (at least, last time I investigated this - perhaps it's changed now?)

New comment by camtarn in "Carl Bohland's Auto Wash Bowl (2015)"

camtarn — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:02:56 +0000

Unfortunately, vintag.es does seem to have done some work here - while they copied the text, they also added several more images to the single image in the original post.

Why the Dutch embrace floating homes

camtarn — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:47:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220202-floating-homes-the-benefits-of-living-on-water

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45724109

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by camtarn in "How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?"

camtarn — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:18:34 +0000

Hah, damn. We live in different worlds - in mine, 100K samples/sec is blazingly fast!

I'm currently working on a PLC program, replacing the PLC's basic cyclic input sampling (max 2K samples/sec) with a harder-to-use mechanism that lets you access the raw data off its 12-bit ADC at 10K samples/sec, which we consider unusually speedy.