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People Who Can't Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination

https://dailyneuron.com/aphantasia-mental-imagery-brain-network/
19•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•7 comments

EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe

https://www.eurobirdportal.org/ebp/en/
167•NKosmatos•5h ago•52 comments

A 386 PC for Your RP2350

https://github.com/rh1tech/frank-386
132•SamuraiLion•5h ago•32 comments

An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

https://www.threebodyorbits.com/
152•danielmorozoff•2d ago•32 comments

Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/14/siri-can-be-swapped-out-for-chatgpt-claude/
127•tosh•2h ago•49 comments

Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260909005152.htm
14•bookofjoe•2d ago•10 comments

How to Write an Effective Software Design Document

https://refactoringenglish.com/excerpts/write-an-effective-design-doc/
11•fagnerbrack•1h ago•0 comments

Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/texas-judge-rules-tiktok-misled-users-child-safety-featu...
65•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•12 comments

Drawably: Hand-Drawn UI Controls

https://github.com/Danilaa1/drawably
35•ingve•4d ago•18 comments

Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band

https://github.com/callbacked/kinesis
75•callbacked•2h ago•23 comments

OpenArch – PyTorch implementations of modern LLM architectures

https://github.com/anuj0456/OpenArch
95•anuj0456•6h ago•19 comments

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10
343•Cider9986•16h ago•173 comments

XCancel suspended "due to a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings"

https://xcancel.com/twitter
210•unfocso•2h ago•158 comments

Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)

https://spaceships.treybastian.com/
307•zdw•4d ago•56 comments

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

https://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/
299•herbertl•14h ago•99 comments

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
1111•u1hcw9nx•17h ago•509 comments

Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives (updated for 2026)

https://gally.net/temp/20260914pelican-alternatives/index.html
3•tkgally•1h ago•0 comments

Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation

https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-raises-usd550m-series-e-at-usd12-55b-valuation-ai
33•gk1•1h ago•12 comments

Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-rust-coreutils-complete
16•theanonymousone•46m ago•4 comments

The case against JPEG XL

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/
224•contact9879•13h ago•287 comments

Largest known Roman mosaic, beneath Baths of Trajan, opens to the public

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/14/largest-roman-mosaic-opens-to-the-public
4•bookofjoe•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built Otis, a minimal AI agent that runs local models out of the box

https://triangllabs.ai/otis
3•petrenk0n•1h ago•0 comments

'Offensively cheap': solar power is looking up

https://www.ft.com/content/8b704ae0-1fa2-4303-925f-170fa5d935b3
42•JumpCrisscross•2h ago•17 comments

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/automattic-confirms-mullenweg-has-returned-as-ceo-after-attempt...
231•ilamont•18h ago•304 comments

SDR–; open source SDR with a patchable signal graph, Rust DSP, web UI

https://github.com/Newspicel/sdrminusminus
3•newspicel•1h ago•0 comments

Optimizing Anamorphic Sculptures

https://tncardoso.com/blog/2026/09/optimizing-anamorphic-sculptures/
5•zbsc•3d ago•0 comments

Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/14/big-ai-sets-out-its-terms-for-regulatory-capture...
56•joebuckwilliams•3h ago•22 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

231•david927•20h ago•688 comments

PCB is brought to you by Fable 5

https://a6mzero.com/posts/this-pcb-is-brought-to-you-by-fable-5/
6•jasonpeacock•1h ago•3 comments

Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students

https://www.htx.com/en-in/news/internet-shocked-unsolved-problem-by-fields-medalist-breache-IBDgZ...
3•soltanov•2h ago•0 comments
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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.