HN Top 10 — May 25, 2026
Today’s Top 10 on Hacker News
1. Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)
⭐ 40 💬 8 👤 theletterf 🔗 Discuss on HN
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. Each generation inherits the task of shaping its own era, of guiding history to become a place where the dignity of every person is safeguarded, justice is promoted and fraternity is made possible. Yet every era also runs the risk of creating an inhumane and…
2. Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)
⭐ 152 💬 56 👤 kelseyfrog 🔗 Discuss on HN
A 2006 randomized controlled trial published in BMJ found that playing the didgeridoo — an Aboriginal Australian wind instrument requiring circular breathing — significantly reduced daytime sleepiness and improved symptoms in patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnoea and snoring. The study suggests didgeridoo practice strengthens upper airway muscles, reducing airway collapsibility during sleep, offering a novel alternative or complementary treatment.
3. Show HN: Geomatic – a command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff
⭐ 18 💬 6 👤 nivter 🔗 Discuss on HN
Geomatic is a command-driven geometry studio built with automatic differentiation. Instead of drawing shapes with a mouse, users type code-like commands (e.g., “\circle p0 2” for circles, “\line a b” for lines) to programmatically create geometric figures on a dark grid canvas. It supports point definitions, shape primitives, and a command history panel — essentially a code-first approach to geometry construction and exploration.
4. Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
⭐ 379 💬 82 👤 pantelisk 🔗 Discuss on HN
Welcome to AudioMass AudioMass is a free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform Editor. It runs entirely in the browser with no backend and no plugins required! Please keep in mind that most key shortcuts rely on the Shift + key combo.
5. DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
⭐ 574 💬 239 👤 Alifatisk 🔗 Discuss on HN
§00 · Reasonix v0.50.0 · open source A DeepSeek-native coding agent, for your terminal. Reasonix talks straight to api.deepseek.com. The loop is append-only, engineered around DeepSeek’s byte-stable prefix cache — long sessions hold 90%+ cache hit and input-token cost collapses to ~1/5.
6. Migrating from Go to Rust
⭐ 298 💬 293 👤 jabits 🔗 Discuss on HN
Out of all the migrations I help teams with, Go to Rust is a bit of an outlier. It’s not a question of “is Rust faster?” or “does Rust have types?”, Go already gets you most of the way there. The discussion is mostly about correctness guarantees, runtime tradeoffs, and developer ergonomics.
7. Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)
⭐ 28 💬 12 👤 azhenley 🔗 Discuss on HN
April 30, 2024 In response to a question on Twitter1, Richard Hipp wrote about why SQLite uses a bytecode VM for executing SQL statements. Most people probably associate bytecode VMs with general-purpose programming languages, like JavaScript or Python. But sometimes they appear in surprising places!.
8. Jira Is Turing-Complete
⭐ 184 💬 81 👤 vinhnx 🔗 Discuss on HN
Nicolas Seriot Computation> Jira is Turing-Complete Building a Minsky Machine in Atlassian Automation 22nd May 2026 Engineering folklore holds that Jira (Atlassian’s project-tracking tool) is Turing-complete. Existing claims point vaguely at automation features…
9. White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems
⭐ 112 💬 28 👤 michaelsbradley 🔗 Discuss on HN
White Rabbit provides sub-nanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision of synchronization for large distributed systems. It also allows for deterministic and reliable data delivery. White Rabbit allows you to precision time-tag measured data and lets you trigger data taking in large installations while at the same time using the same network to transmit data.
10. Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages
⭐ 11 💬 0 👤 ankitg12 🔗 Discuss on HN
A technical blog post examining the quirks and pitfalls of working with Python’s built-in email packages (email.message, email.parser, email.policy). Covers practical considerations for parsing MIME emails, handling headers, dealing with legacy vs modern parsing modes, and navigating the complexities of real-world email formats that don’t always conform to RFC specifications.