Hacker News – 25 May 2026

Table of Contents Sound Innovations in Audio Editing Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web Show HN: Geomatic – a command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff Programming Paradigms and Language Transition Migrating from Go to Rust C constructs that still don't work in C++ Tech Breakthroughs and Discoveries A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine The Future of Computing and Tools Microsoft open-sources 'the earliest DOS source code discovered to date' Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu