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First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists

https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/biotechnology/human-trial-chemogenetic-brain-therapy/104...
1•gradus_ad•3m ago•0 comments

MTV Cribs: SF Startup (Parody) – Programmers are also human [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Cr-UhKhZI
1•Gecko4072•5m ago•0 comments

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

https://github.com/wmww/tawc
1•schmorptron•6m ago•0 comments

The flock uprising is just the beginning

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-flock-uprising-is-just-the-beginning/ar-AA2a5NbB
3•pilingual•6m ago•0 comments

The Output Style, It Does Nothing – Learning to Live with Claude

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/15/output-style-does-nothing
1•iamflimflam1•10m ago•0 comments

DHS demands AAMVA's national commercial driver database

https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/08/14/dhs-demands-aamvas-national-commercial-driver-database/
4•iamnothere•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: sce (Simple Console Editor)

https://github.com/volution/simple-console-editor
1•ciprian_craciun•12m ago•0 comments

The Three AI Pills

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-three-ai-pills
3•stuartmemo•16m ago•0 comments

Planes With Same Call Sign at PHX – one departing, one arriving

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/us/american-airlines-call-signs-phoenix.html
1•jsrozner•17m ago•1 comments

The Mysterious Art of Conducting

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/orchestra-conductor-profession/687962/
2•anarbadalov•18m ago•0 comments

Which monotheistic religions preceded Yahweh's religion?

https://ciron.medium.com/which-monotheistic-religions-preceded-that-of-yahweh-3218c780553f
1•raynchad•18m ago•2 comments

Tupoi: An attention-free LLM with strictly O(1) memory and 6 KB state

https://github.com/narelabs/TUPOI
1•IntellegenceIsP•19m ago•0 comments

Four Levels of In-Place Initialization (Rust)

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/four-levels-of-in-place-initialization/
1•dabinat•20m ago•0 comments

Alibaba AI Models Hit 3B Downloads, Passing Meta, Google

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-15/alibaba-ai-models-hit-3-billion-downloads-pass...
3•pluc•25m ago•1 comments

AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them

https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians
54•rzk•27m ago•42 comments

React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to Flue

https://www.latent.space/p/flue-2
1•flyaway123•29m ago•0 comments

Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/08/desktop-calendar-a-design-journey/
3•birdculture•31m ago•0 comments

AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust

https://www.theverge.com/column/976690/ai-writing-detectors-suspicion
3•saikatsg•33m ago•0 comments

Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze drives ranks HGST most reliable

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/peer-reviewed-study-of-443000-backblaze-drivers-r...
4•sbulaev•33m ago•1 comments

Fossilisation processes and our reading of animal antiquity

https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(23)00137-4
2•joebig•34m ago•0 comments

Whiteboard lesson walking through postgres architecture basics. Part 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9jixKv4h2I
2•adletbalzhanov•36m ago•2 comments

Notes on building products people love when software gets cheap

https://twitter.com/hnshah/status/2088663964116983856
2•tosh•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jovethra – prepaid OpenAI-compatible API with hard usage limits

https://jovethra.xyz/playground
1•Belius•38m ago•0 comments

YouTube Dumps Cache Between Ads, Quality Toggling and Wastes Cellular Bandwidth

https://inavoyage.blogspot.com/2026/08/youtube-dumps-cache-between-ads-quality.html
2•initramfs•40m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What non-technical skill boosted your engineering career the most?

1•pranav_tech26•42m ago•4 comments

Coming Soon to Shattered: The Vault Quest

https://shatteredpixel.com/blog/coming-soon-to-shattered-the-vault-quest.html
1•robin_reala•42m ago•0 comments

BriskDB

https://github.com/schapman1974/briskdb
2•schapman1974•43m ago•1 comments

I write the notifications that interrupt you. It did not make me immune

https://medium.com/@mike.salari.dev/i-write-the-notifications-that-interrupt-you-it-did-not-make-...
2•salari_dev•44m ago•0 comments

Steer on a Sphere: Geometric Control of Transformer Outputs

https://github.com/ntrillard/transformer-geometry
1•ntrillard•44m ago•0 comments

Oman says oil spill reaches coastline

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/13/oman-says-massive-oil-spill-reaches-coastline-what-damag...
3•tosh•44m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Git Commands That Cover 90% of a Developer's Daily Workflow

https://jsdev.space/15-git-commands/
29•javatuts•1y ago

Comments

epmatsw•1y ago
restore and maybe switch are the two missing ones I think. Rebase for me, but that’s preference. Cherry-pick too.
rentonl•1y ago
my co-workers used to think I was an expert in git. In reality, they memorized 7 commands while I memorized 15
hbogert•1y ago
i memorized that a commit tree is a ordered set of patches. Everything goes from there.
Areibman•1y ago
In similar fashion, this site has saved me countless hours fixing common git issues https://ohshitgit.com
the__alchemist•1y ago
I need to alias:

  git add .
  git commit -am "descriptive name"
  git push

to:

  git sync "descriptive name"
horsawlarway•1y ago
personally - skip the 'git add .'

It's a pretty terrible habit to get into, and will (not can - will) cause all sorts of headaches. From minor ones like personal editor configs getting dumped into the projects, all the way up to major ones like secrets ending up in your git history.

If you want something close, but much better, do something like:

    if [[ -n $(git ls-files --others --exclude-standard) ]]; then
        echo "There are untracked files.  Please add, remove, or ignore them."
    else
        git commit -am "descriptive name"
        git push
    fi
the__alchemist•1y ago
I see your point, but find it worth it for convenience. Ultimately git is a tool I use to get the job done, and I want it out of the way. 99% of the time, I just want to sync my project, which doesn't only mean edits to existing files.
open-paren•1y ago
How about `git add --patch -all` to make it interactive? I have that aliased to `gap` and it is probably my most used git command.
cholantesh•1y ago
That sounds better but I like the granularity I get from scrutinizing specific files or the patch takes too long to review.
speff•1y ago
I'd like to suggest also mentioning `git add -p` (--prompt). It's very helpful for just adding changes relevant to the commit
nickcw•1y ago
No `git rebase`?

Here are my stats for my last 300 or so git commands from my history

    $ history | grep git | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

     71 log
     44 show
     34 diff
     26 co # alias for checkout
     24 cherry-pick
     23 status
     18 brs # alias for branch -v --sort=-committerdate
     13 rebase
     11 commit
     11 add
      8 push
      4 archive
      3 reset
      2 pull
      1 grep
      1 checkout
      1 br
Been doing lots of tricky merges recently hence all the cherry-picks! Not normally such a large part of my workflow.
mercer•1y ago
For me, I generally don't go far beyond the commands in the article, but I /do/ make a lot of use of git rebase -i in my branches.
karmakaze•1y ago
Maybe not essential, but reflog is invaluable.

I also like to separate fetch from pull (fetch + merge).

foobarkey•1y ago
Remove merge and add rebase and we agree :)

Oh and maybe cherry-pick

seba_dos1•1y ago
Both are essential.
realaleris149•1y ago
There are other commands?
incomplete•1y ago
also gonna echo the same sentiment: where's rebase? :)

two other git log commands i find to be insanely useful are:

alias hlog='git log --date-order --graph --date=short --format="%C(green)%h%Creset %C(yellow)%an%Creset %C(blue bold)%ad%Creset %C(red bold)%d%Creset%s"'

and:

alias alog='git log --date-order --all --graph --date=short --format="%C(green)%h%Creset %C(yellow)%an%Creset %C(blue bold)%ad%Creset %C(red bold)%d%Creset%s"'

this is great when working in a repo w/a main "prod" branch that you don't commit to directly, but instead commit to "staging" or "dev". alog shows you the entire repo's history for all branches, and hlog is just the graph of the non-pushable branches (plus all feature branches).

hbogert•1y ago
i can't take this seriously if there's no mention of the '--amend' option and 'rebase' command
OutOfHere•1y ago
It missed "git switch" and "git restore".