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GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos

https://noma.security/blog/gitlost-how-we-tricked-githubs-ai-agent-into-leaking-private-repos/
152•ColinEberhardt•3h ago•48 comments

How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

https://neil.computer/notes/how-to-setup-minimal-zfs-nas-without-truenas/
179•4diii•5h ago•104 comments

Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks

https://www.digipres.org/the-floppy-guide/
66•whiteblossom•5h ago•16 comments

Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/213560
197•miniBill•8h ago•56 comments

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Video Lectures (1986)

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/v...
163•gjvc•9h ago•16 comments

GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108193
198•Jimmc414•10h ago•95 comments

Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview
638•gasull•18h ago•225 comments

Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canada-s-only-watchmaking-school-9.7254211
135•throw0101a•3d ago•66 comments

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

https://ariya.io/2026/03/local-cpu-friendly-high-quality-tts-text-to-speech-with-kokoro/
399•speckx•14h ago•78 comments

The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/02/canonization/
40•hn_acker•5d ago•25 comments

LineageOS Statistics

https://stats.lineageos.org
78•pentagrama•7h ago•38 comments

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

https://30papers.com/
509•notmcrowley•17h ago•77 comments

Home made GPU escalated quickly [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMR3IXF2sWw
29•erichocean•2d ago•1 comments

Herdr: One terminal to rule them all

https://herdr.dev/
272•handfuloflight•6d ago•120 comments

Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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303•xinit•14h ago•69 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2074704958419792299
183•jfrbfbreudh•4h ago•133 comments

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop

https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat
157•segmenta•16h ago•44 comments

l: A new runtime for k and q

https://lv1.sh/
142•skruger•14h ago•83 comments

Scheme Is a Hoot

https://gracefulliberty.com/notes/scheme-is-a-hoot/
73•signa11•2d ago•11 comments

IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course

https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-language-models-ieee-course
71•JeanKage•1w ago•10 comments

Show HN: Chiptune Radio

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47•bootbloopers•8h ago•10 comments

We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12

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183•minimaxir•15h ago•186 comments

Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

https://allaboutcookies.org/eu-mandatory-distracted-driver-system
624•nickslaughter02•12h ago•781 comments

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

https://github.com/jimparis/qr-font
177•arantius•16h ago•22 comments

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

https://pgdog.dev/blog/why-yet-another-connection-pooler
185•levkk•17h ago•43 comments

Automate Excel with Python: From manual grind to one-click workflow

https://nostarch.com/automate-excel-with-python
7•teleforce•3d ago•4 comments

StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

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757•kls0e•20h ago•182 comments

Notes on Software Quality

https://anthonyhobday.com/blog/20260410
124•speckx•14h ago•52 comments

Show HN: Neil the Seal Game

https://neiltheseal.app/
55•dalemhurley•2d ago•43 comments

Out of the Armchair

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6•Thevet•6d ago•0 comments
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Extending a Language – Writing Powerful Macros in Scheme

https://mnieper.github.io/scheme-macros/README.html
92•textread•1y ago

Comments

neilv•1y ago
A few formatting changes might make this advanced example easier to understand:

    (define-syntax trace-let
      (syntax-rules ()
        [(trace-let name ([var expr] ...) body1 ... body2)
         (let f ([depth 0] [var expr] ...)
           (define name
             (lambda (var ...)
               (f (+ depth 1) var ...)))
           (indent depth)
           (display "(")
           (display 'name)
           (begin
             (display " ")
             (display var))
           ...
           (display ")")
           (newline)
           (call-with-values
               (lambda ()
                 body1 ... body2)
             (lambda val*
               (indent depth)
               (fold-left
                (lambda (sep val)
                  (display sep)
                  (display val)
                  " ")
                "" val*)
               (newline)
               (apply values val*))))]))
The biggest one is to make the rule template pattern variables all-uppercase. I also made a few other tweaks, including using indentation a little more, and naming the named-`let` variable as "loop" (I usually name it `loop` or prefix the name with `loop-` if there's more than one):

    (define-syntax trace-let
      (syntax-rules ()
        ((trace-let NAME ((VAR EXPR) ...) BODY1 ... BODY2)
         (let loop ((depth 0)
                    (VAR   EXPR) ...)
           (define NAME
             (lambda (VAR ...)
               (loop (+ depth 1) VAR ...)))
           (indent depth)
           (display "(")
           (display (quote NAME))
           (begin (display " ")
                  (display VAR)) ...
           (display ")")
           (newline)
           (call-with-values (lambda ()
                               BODY1 ... BODY2)
             (lambda val*
               (indent depth)
               (fold-left (lambda (sep val)
                            (display sep)
                            (display val)
                            " ")
                          ""
                          val*)
               (newline)
               (apply values val*)))))))
Incidentally, all-uppercase Scheme pattern variables is one of the all-time best uses of all-uppercase in any language. Second only to all-uppercase for the C preprocessor, where a preprocessor macro can introduce almost arbitrary text. Using all-uppercase for constants in some language that has constants, however, is an abomination.

(My suspicion of why Java did all-caps is that they were developing a language for embedded systems developers who were currently using C and C++, and they wanted to make it superficially look similar, even though it was an entirely different language. And then, ironically, the language ended up being used mostly by the analogue of a very different developer of the time: corporate internal information systems developers, who, as a field, didn't use anything like C. It's too late to save Java, but to all other language and API developers, please stop the insanity of all-caps constants, enum values, etc. It's not the most important thing that needs to jump out from the code above all other things.)

Y_Y•1y ago
FWIW, all-caps makes this look much worse to me. I understand that people like things like Hungarian notation, arrows over vector names, and shouting Common Lisp symbols. I understand the argument that it can make reading easier. I just can't appreciate that benefit, and it seems to me an ugly hack which obscures the abstract and general symbolic manipulation going on.

This is all highly subjective of course, de gustibus non disputandem.

neilv•1y ago
You mean aesthetically, in that interspersed all-caps makes the code visually less soothingly sensual?

I can sympathize, but let me make a non-aesthetic argument...

In large blocks of code, with all-caps, you can see at a glance where all the template substitutions are happening, and also instantly know as you're reading code what are variables and what are template substitutions?

I'm asking because one of my realizations in recent years is that not everyone reads or sees code the same way.

For example, maybe some people are stronger "visual" and some people are stronger "verbal".

For another example of a different in how people perceive and think, some people can visualize an object in their mind almost as if they're looking at it, but other people can only know and describe what it looks like without bringing a visual of it into their head.

With the benefit of the all-caps, I can glance at this and immediately see much of the structure of the template. Without all-caps, I'd have to work harder to find all the pattern variables, and the structure would be obscured.

For a bit kludgy practical matter, as I'm quickly looking at pieces of code in a template, with all-caps, I can look at a fragment of code in isolation and know what are and aren't pattern variables. Without that, I have to go read the top of the template clause (and read through any syntactic scopes of `let-syntax`) and get that in my head, until I get to the fragment of code I originally wanted to look at.

IDE support can make this unnecessary, with a hypothetical great IDE, with familiar syntax coloring. But still, if there is one thing that all-caps should be reserved for, it's something like this.

With all-caps, your code can be sensual, and the jolting all-caps bits are look out, potentially arbitrary code gets pasted into here.

mnemenaut•1y ago
https://github.com/rogerturner/scheme-macros/blob/main/examp... shows stepwise development of a trace-let [the `(example: (fn arg) => result)` forms are tests - see check-examples library]
Y_Y
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1y ago
Since you asked, my objection is both aesthetic and semantic, though I was really referring to the semantic part above.

I think you've hit the nail on the head with this visual vs. verbal distinction.

I can add a few clarifying details. I don't use IDEs as much as basic text editors maybe with highlighting, and I try not to rely on any fancy features. It does worry me that the allcaps use you describe is (afaik) not known to the editor or interpreter, so if you make a mistake or the symbol gets out of sync with its meaning (re: pattern variables) you may have a false signal. Finally I'll say that in the end I can't suggest a good way to treat these special variables, and so maybe I don't get it, or tastes like mine would be better served by a different formalism for macros.