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Show HN: LC3 VM in Golang

https://github.com/shraddhaag/toyvm
1•shraddhaag•3m ago•0 comments

The East Asian Fertility Disaster

https://twitter.com/MoreBirths/status/2097805266473324859
1•barry-cotter•3m ago•0 comments

Lego Machine Plays Tic-Tac-Toe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soklpa_JZOI
1•suopspaces•8m ago•0 comments

Pi-based coding agent with hard budget caps

https://kimchi.dev/
1•testycool•20m ago•1 comments

Write Your Own Virtual Machine

https://www.jmeiners.com/lc3-vm/
2•shraddhaag•24m ago•0 comments

Forms in HTML Tables

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=33817
1•mimasama•26m ago•0 comments

AI can clone your indie game, but not its soul

https://twitter.com/robertvaradan/status/2106061989122334778
4•robertvaradan•31m ago•0 comments

Iran says it seized US underwater vehicle conducting 'espionage'

https://thearabweekly.com/iran-says-it-seized-us-underwater-vehicle-conducting-espionage
5•snarky-comments•32m ago•0 comments

Survival Ball Versus: The Sabbatical Sprint

https://lopespm.com/2026/10/04/survival_ball_versus.html
1•lopespm•36m ago•0 comments

Chalkboard and Avatar for AI Agents

https://github.com/zohayrslileh/more-space
1•zouhirdx•41m ago•1 comments

Give your AI agent awareness of what's happening around you

https://github.com/SyncSo-Inc/syncso
1•ts3479•41m ago•0 comments

Musk explains why Tesla Robotaxi isn't running at night, and Lidar is the answer

https://electrek.co/2026/10/03/tesla-robotaxi-pets-night-musk-lidar/
5•cisc•43m ago•0 comments

China's space plane appears to have released a mystery object in orbit

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/chinas-space-plane-appears-to-have-re...
4•mooreds•49m ago•0 comments

What is the true reach of a human being?

https://www.echohive.ai/the-reach-of-being
1•echohive42•52m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How different is Apple App Store and Play Store paid apps market

1•sahil423•52m ago•0 comments

What September's Employment Numbers Say [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlZg8gQAUTk
1•mooreds•52m ago•0 comments

Look for the Helpers

https://1429.help/about/
1•mooreds•54m ago•0 comments

Kansas Legislature's Cuts Compel Fort Hays State Uni to Close Sternberg Museum

https://kansasreflector.com/2026/09/30/budget-woes-compel-fort-hays-state-university-to-prepare-s...
1•rdmuser•54m ago•0 comments

Decoding Looped Transformers Better for Almost Free

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02185
1•simonpure•1h ago•0 comments

How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business

https://thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-the-bad-science-of-ai-doomerism-is-good-for-big-business/
6•paimapi•1h ago•0 comments

Packing Unit Squares in Squares: A Survey and New Results

https://erich-friedman.github.io/papers/squares/squares.html
3•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

Inside Anthropic's Quest to Instill Morality into Its A.I. Models

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html
20•bookofjoe•1h ago•12 comments

Context Monorepos

https://backnotprop.com/blog/context-monorepos/
1•ramoz•1h ago•1 comments

Post-Quantum WireGuard vs. Classical: 37x Keys (2026)

https://shattered.io/post-quantum-wireguard-vs-classical-wireguard-2026/
2•msgchainhq•1h ago•0 comments

Robert X Cringley's Triumph of the Nerds and Nerds 2.0.1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toSRmKKiosQ&list=PLAXA1ccaOnGdbStEwcKE56YzlYDYOx2Tx
8•JMiao•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI's latest features take direct aim at the app store model

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/openais-latest-features-take-direct-aim-at-the-app-store-model/
1•thm•1h ago•0 comments

Television

https://television.run/
2•ray__•1h ago•0 comments

I went looking for surveillance cameras in my neighbourhood

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260902-how-to-watch-the-cameras-that-watch-you
3•cisc•1h ago•0 comments

The Alto Line, a comfortable ride for the business executive

https://melvynschobel.substack.com/p/the-alto-line-a-comfortable-ride
1•dorygold•1h ago•1 comments

Row-level security performance in PostgreSQL, measured

https://now-next.nl/en/insights/row-level-security-performance-postgresql/
3•plaur782•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Working with Git Patches in Apple Mail (2023)

https://btxx.org/posts/mail/
50•todsacerdoti•1y ago

Comments

johnrob•1y ago
Once I discovered how git apply can take diff files (or patch files) as input, I stopped using git stash in favor of plain old files. Easier to list and browse the contents of prior edits, also you can grep the files as method of search. I’ve even found myself copying and editing the diffs before applying.
barbazoo•1y ago
Oh that’s clever, I’ll try that out. Looks like you could just do a git diff > file.patch.

Neat.

johnrob•1y ago
You’ll also want to familiarize with “git apply -3 <file name>”, for when a diff can’t be applied cleanly. It will try “harder” to merge (three way method) and if it still fails it invokes the conflict merge “UX”:

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smcameron•1y ago
There's also Neil Brown's "wiggle" program for applying patches that don't apply.

https://github.com/neilbrown/wiggle

although on debian based systems I think you can just "apt install wiggle"

johnisgood•1y ago
What does "applying patches that don't apply" mean exactly?

I know about wiggle, but I have not used it, to be honest.

smcameron•1y ago
It means that if you do "patch -p1 --dry-run < some.patch", and it complains that it doesn't apply, wiggle can sometimes apply it anyway, and also, if you do "patch -p1 < some.patch", and it partially applies but with rejected hunks, wiggle can try to apply the rejected hunks.
johannes1234321•1y ago
git diff an pipe works, but committing and then `git format-patch` can export multiple patches and then includes metadata (commit message, date, author, etc.) which can make reasoning about such files a lot easier. In a plain diff you only got filename as metadata.
RaoulP•1y ago
That’s a great idea, and very timely for me.
d3ckard•1y ago
Thank you, will try. Useful bit of knowledge.
OskarS•1y ago
That is a very neat trick, I agree.

I personally approaches stashes as undoable "clean up", and I never have anything really important that I want to save there. If I do have something like that, I just commit with a "WIP <some-descriptive-string>" message and don't push it, then a "git reset --mixed HEAD^" when I want to get back to it.

However, just FYI: you can "grep" your stashes really easily if you want to. just "git stash list -p" gives you the diffs for all the stashes, by default in "less" where you can search them, but you can pipe it to grep if you want. I somewhat frequently do that with "git log", if I want to know "when did this variable change?" or whatever, just "git log -p" to get the log with diffs in less, then search for whatever it was with a slash.

teeray•1y ago
Maybe slightly O/T, but has anyone found a decent way to `git send-email` with email hosts that demand OAuth? (looking at you Outlook and Gmail)
ravetcofx•1y ago
Generating app passwords for those would work.
pm215•1y ago
Yeah, I use an app specific password with Gmail, like the setup suggested by https://git-send-email.io/#step-2

Exchange historically had a tendency to mangle emails sent through it (whitespace changes, line wrap, etc), which is obviously bad news for patchmails. I dunno if it's any better these days.

computerfriend•1y ago
For Gmail, you can use https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/tree/master/go/....
mathstuf•1y ago
I use msmtp with a tool from the oauth2-tools repo to do the rotation token dance. Need to register your own app with Google though.
dmarinus•1y ago
palata•1y ago
I like doing it with aerc [1]. It's even possible to use aerc in parallel to another email client. Just open aerc for git-related emails, and that's it!

[1]: https://drewdevault.com/2022/07/25/Code-review-with-aerc.htm...

kazinator•1y ago
View the e-mail raw in your browser, select all, copy, paste into git apply.

Then you don't need that message to be in a file-based inbox that is accessible from your git repo.

And in that case you are still likely going to have to copy and paste something to get the correct path.

sircastor•1y ago
It looks like Apple Mail has plugin support, I wonder if you could author a plugin that’d provide a button to apply the diff.
smcameron•1y ago
If you work with git and patches a lot, stgit is worth a look.

https://stacked-git.github.io

johnisgood•1y ago
At that point, why not just use Pijul or even Darcs?
smcameron•1y ago
Because the codebase you're working on is on github?

And I think you may underestimate the power of stgit. You can manage thousands of patches concurrently, no problem. If you're a maintainer getting patches from loads of people all the time, this is valuable. stgit has it's origins in quilt, which in turn has its origins in Andrew Morton's patch scripts[1], and I know for a fact that Andrew Morton actually managed thousands of patches at a time for years in his work on the linux kernel, because I once sent him a patch against those scripts, and he complained it was slow because I used an O(n^2) algorithm, which worked fine with a handful of patches, and I asked him how many patches he had, and he told me a number that was multiple thousands, so this isn't a hypothetical example.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/13518/

davmail supports smtp through outlook(365)
ndegruchy•1y ago
Yeah, I used DAVMail with Emacs+MSMTP+MPOP+notmuch for ages. Works really well, the only occasional thing I had to do was reauthenticate the token, which pops up in a browser window.
ozarker•1y ago
I think you could set up postfix to smtp forward to those services. So it could handle the oauth2 and you wouldn’t need to configure your client
p_wood•1y ago
I use an app password but https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/git-credential-email apparently supports OAuth with Gmail, yahoo and outlook
arthurmorgan123•1y ago
I tried this with Gmail and Outlook. Works flawlessly and also doesn't need to authenticate frequently. The Authen::SASL thing was a catch though.

git-send-email also has some quirks for Outlook which have been recently merged.