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Genie 4

https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/
86•acossta•30m ago•34 comments

Python's experimental JIT to be removed

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/
274•f311a•5h ago•145 comments

New iMac with M6

https://www.apple.com/imac/
138•notfried•3h ago•119 comments

AI promised less work. I've never worked more

https://oioannou.com/blog/ai-promised-less-work/
559•oorestisime•5h ago•482 comments

Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup
257•rbanffy•5h ago•113 comments

The US Government Is Hiding Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans

https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-...
288•helterskelter2•2h ago•73 comments

Here Be Monsters: What Do You Still Need to Know When Agents Do the Work?

https://blog.adrq.dev/here-be-monsters-what-do-you-still-need-to-know-when-agents-do-the-work
81•adrq•3h ago•20 comments

Why Micron Is Suddenly Ditching 4F² DRAM as Rivals Double Down

https://hothardware.com/news/why-micron-is-suddenly-ditching-4f-dram
54•rbanffy•1d ago•5 comments

Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls

https://kevinreuning.com/blog/polling_virality.html
32•m-hodges•1h ago•26 comments

PHP2Shell: Exploitation attempts and remediation trends

https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-exploitation-so-far
137•acossta•2h ago•44 comments

Classification of Finite Simple Groups Formalized in Lean

https://cfsg.axiommath.ai/
5•pfdietz•7m ago•2 comments

My video has unit tests

https://pertiller.tech/blog/my-video-written-in-code/
15•Vieltrinker•1h ago•3 comments

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics

https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/
1075•jonluca•19h ago•617 comments

Gforth 1.0

https://gforth.org/manual/1.0/NEWS.html
105•joshcsimmons•6h ago•6 comments

The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI

https://j11g.com/the-mythical-man-month-in-the-age-of-ai
351•ilreb•10h ago•229 comments

Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books

https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/27/professors-books-pirated-to-train-claude/
48•car•1h ago•21 comments

A Stackless Floodfill Automaton

https://t3x.org/files/floodfill.pdf
22•andsoitis•1d ago•6 comments

Is my data used for model training?

https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/7996868-is-my-data-used-for-model-training
147•jonpizza•2h ago•69 comments

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-Octob...
744•vok•18h ago•270 comments

Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible

https://www.bitlog.com/2026/10/27/software-may-be-getting-worse-but-it-used-to-be-horrible/
224•jakevoytko•5h ago•175 comments

OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp

https://atgreen.github.io/repl-yell/posts/openldk-java-in-common-lisp/
13•atgreen•2d ago•0 comments

Data Recovery CEO Indicted for Allegedly Scamming Ransomware Victims

https://www.propublica.org/article/zohar-pinhasi-monstercloud-ransomware-indictment
24•hn_acker•57m ago•5 comments

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models
804•sgiannopoulos•1d ago•106 comments

Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking

https://open3dlab.com/news/roblox-downloaded-145-gb-of-models-from-our-sites/
407•choult•6h ago•234 comments

New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/
116•meetpateltech•3h ago•131 comments

A $300B 'Debt Wall' Is Looming over Private-Equity Backed Companies

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/a-300-billion-debt-wall-is-looming-over-private-equity-back...
28•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•4 comments

188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography's First Human Subjects Solved

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/daguerre-photograph-subjects-location-2826596
36•bookofjoe•3d ago•7 comments

Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/
23•beex•28m ago•9 comments

Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261023-how-solar-became-bigger-than-nuclear
493•geox•1d ago•672 comments

Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11

https://blog.enlyth.com/posts/oldest-windows-gui-app-win-11/
506•enlyth•22h ago•301 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.