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Rocksky
tangled.org
Music scrobbling and discovery on AT Protocol.
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Commenters called it a perfect recommendation model and said they would add support in another app.
Issue / 2026-05-16
8 interesting things surfaced from HN on 2026-05-16
A daily board of tools, apps, and references that Hacker News readers pulled into view on 2026-05-16. Each row keeps the original HN thread close to the claim.
At a glance:
Items:8
Threads:8
What surfaced that day
02
Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
codeberg.org
A Codeberg project that brings Windows 9x nostalgia to Linux.
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Replies praised the clean, usable interface and said it looked like GitHub/Forgejo.
03
Accelerate
github.com
A Haskell array language with JIT, CPU, and GPU offload.
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Commenters described it as NumPy plus a JIT compiler and highlighted automatic CPU/GPU vectorization.
04
PART Telescopes
parttelescopes.web.app
Low-cost radio telescope kits for rural schools.
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One commenter said low-cost radio telescopes are great fun and linked several related projects.
05
Greek Alphabet Cards
labs.randomquark.com
Interactive cards for learning the Greek alphabet.
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Commenters said the cards were very handy and that learning Greek letters paid off in university.
06
SANA-WM
nvlabs.github.io
An open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video.
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Commenters said they were impressed with the world models and pointed to robotics simulation as an immediate use case.
07
Kioxia 10 PB 2RU server
blocksandfiles.com
A slim 2RU server packing 10 PB of storage.
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Replies called the Kioxia drives the interesting part and said the density was fascinating.
08
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
seangoedecke.com
A blog post on LLM steering vectors for DeepSeek-V4-Flash.
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A commenter said steering features could remove refusals, and others compared runtime steering with modified weights.