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Leaving the Sea of Nodes in the V8 JIT

https://v8.dev/blog/leaving-the-sea-of-nodes
1•obl•45s ago•0 comments

AI separates knowledge from identity, writing separates knowledge from memory

https://www.nvegater.com/blog/ai-separator-hn
1•nvegater•1m ago•0 comments

.at TLD is top on CF Radar

https://radar.cloudflare.com/tlds?dateRange=1d
1•labithiotis•1m ago•0 comments

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/technology/peter-g-neumann-dead.html
1•jgrahamc•5m ago•0 comments

Slop-Mop: Harm Reduction for Addicted Agents

https://scienceisneato.substack.com/p/slop-mop-harm-reduction-for-addicted
2•ji_reilly•9m ago•1 comments

I built an agent to organize 500 GB of family home videos from the 90s

https://www.mux.com/blog/using-mux-robots-to-organize-my-archive-of-90s-era-vhs-home-videos
1•dylanjha•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Feature flags on Redis you use – a low cost solution

https://github.com/sgs-97/redis-feature-flags
1•sgs-97•11m ago•2 comments

Holecard – CLI password manager with TOTP support

https://github.com/shabaraba/holecard
1•28304283409234•13m ago•0 comments

Mixxx: FOSS DJ Mixing Software

https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx
1•yacin•14m ago•0 comments

Design CLI – Automate design workflows

https://github.com/shuffle-dev/cli
1•dym3k•19m ago•1 comments

NX VS Code extension compromised again

https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/issues/3139
3•varunsharma07•20m ago•0 comments

Actions-cool/issues-helper GitHub Action Compromised

https://github.com/actions-cool/issues-helper/issues/230
2•varunsharma07•21m ago•0 comments

Robot dogs with Elon Musk heads roam Berlin museum in Beeple's new exhibit

https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-robot-dogs-beeple-bezos-digital-art-4a2be2a4a4490553ad6...
4•rbanffy•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fast xlsx writer in Rust with Python bindings

https://github.com/omarirfa/Jetxl
1•fl4res•30m ago•0 comments

Suno and the Myth-Making of Making Music

https://illegal.solutions/posts/suno_interview
2•totallygeeky•30m ago•1 comments

Pebble Index 01 production update

https://repebble.com/blog/how-i-use-my-index-01-production-update
1•stavros•30m ago•0 comments

Static web hosting on Kubernetes with OCI images as volumes

https://kowalski7cc.xyz/blog/kubernetes-web-hosting/
1•kowalski7cc•30m ago•1 comments

Musk's xAI Fails to Pay Staff $420 for Giving Their Tax Returns to Grok

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/musk-s-xai-promised-staff-420-for-their-tax-re...
5•petethomas•31m ago•0 comments

Needle-rs – AI Function calling in the browser, 258 KB WASM

https://needle-rs.pages.dev
1•geekgineer•32m ago•0 comments

'It's felt like homework': Why Star Wars went so wrong

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260515-why-star-wars-went-so-wrong
1•xg15•34m ago•0 comments

Academicus Otiosus: The Lazy Academic

https://thescholarlyletter.scholar-square.com/p/academicus-otiosus-the-lazy-academic
1•luispa•34m ago•0 comments

A Builder's Letter to Anthropic

https://unforced.substack.com/p/a-builders-letter-to-anthropic
1•Aaronneyer•35m ago•0 comments

No More JetBrains Products for Me

https://matthewkosarek.xyz/posts/jetbrains/
26•matthewkosarek•36m ago•13 comments

The Enshittification of History

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/05/the-enshittification-of-histor.html
3•rbanffy•37m ago•0 comments

UBS: The bank that outgrew a country

https://www.ft.com/content/19e68223-1b35-41e7-b1f2-2633f9d618db
1•theanonymousone•37m ago•0 comments

Discogo – Turn any logo or image into a 3D disco ball

https://discogo.vercel.app
1•nanxiaobei•39m ago•1 comments

'Pro Law Enforcement Bill' Clarity Passed Out of Committee

https://www.therage.co/clarity-act-senate-banking/
1•Cider9986•40m ago•0 comments

The Tech Bros Are Going to Etiquette School

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/slow-ventures-tech-etiquette-class-20feced9
1•Cider9986•40m ago•0 comments

Trump drops IRS lawsuit in exchange for DOJ $1.8B 'weaponization' fund

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-dismisses-lawsuit-against-irs-court-filing-shows-2026-05-18/
5•TechTechTech•41m ago•0 comments

The Chinese EV standard winning globally is banned in the U.S.

https://restofworld.org/2026/us-china-ev-tech-ban-isolation/
7•speckx•42m 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•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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
davmail supports smtp through outlook(365)
ndegruchy•12mo 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•12mo 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.

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•12mo 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•12mo ago
If you work with git and patches a lot, stgit is worth a look.

https://stacked-git.github.io

johnisgood•12mo ago
At that point, why not just use Pijul or even Darcs?
smcameron•11mo 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/