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Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
530•minimaxir•3h ago•316 comments

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/26/openai-says-us-government-will-vet-users-its...
329•alain94040•1h ago•547 comments

MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-isolated-sandboxes-with-full-lifecycle-control-aws-lambda-in...
187•justincormack•3d ago•108 comments

Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory

https://gossamer-lang.org/
31•mwheeler•1h ago•21 comments

Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor

https://github.com/workweave/router
96•adchurch•3h ago•67 comments

Ultrasound imaging of the brain

https://alephneuro.com/blog/ultrasound-brain
178•rossant•8h ago•60 comments

Modern GPU Programming for MLSys

https://mlc.ai/modern-gpu-programming-for-mlsys/
31•crowwork•3d ago•2 comments

What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?

https://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html#what-is-a-nomogram-and-wh...
32•Eridanus2•2h ago•7 comments

Om Malik has died

https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/
1254•minimaxir•23h ago•154 comments

The "Bizarre Headgear" Exhibit at the Sam Noble Museum Is Incredible

https://svpow.com/2026/05/15/the-bizarre-headgear-exhibit-at-the-sam-noble-museum-is-incredible/
20•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

What is a Lithium-ion capacitor?

https://www.jtekt.co.jp/e/products/capacitor/capacitor_about.html
33•ksec•4h ago•11 comments

Data centers trigger voter backlash

https://www.newsweek.com/cost-me-the-election-data-centers-trigger-voter-backlash-12118327
75•randycupertino•2h ago•66 comments

Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/liva-ai/jobs/gvtc3Ep-founding-operations-lead
1•ashlleymo•3h ago

Libre Barcode Project

https://graphicore.github.io/librebarcode/
268•luu•17h ago•49 comments

22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/handwritten-notebook-discovered-major-paris/
239•thunderbong•6d ago•77 comments

What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

https://www.fernandoi.cl/posts/hackmyclaw/
335•cuchoi•17h ago•154 comments

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been...
304•adharmad•6h ago•142 comments

Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/framework-10g-ethernet-module-usb-c-complexity/
300•Alupis•19h ago•171 comments

LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers

https://www.swiftlatex.com/
54•theanonymousone•3d ago•17 comments

The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/art-of-kite-flying/
6•benbreen•4d ago•4 comments

Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter

https://github.com/DDecoene/WebBaseIII
66•ddecoene•2d ago•16 comments

Bipartite Matching Is in NC

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9851
96•amichail•3d ago•14 comments

Incident CVE-2026-LGTM

https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html
459•mooreds•7h ago•78 comments

Israel Asked Facebook to Censor Iran War Content, Internal Documents Show

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/18/israel-facebook-censor-content-moderation-iran-war/
18•Jimmc414•23m ago•2 comments

My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/my-steam-machine-is-a-50ft-hdmi-cable/
98•speckx•3d ago•103 comments

Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64)

https://github.com/skx/slisp
30•stevekemp•1h ago•1 comments

Jolla Phone (October 2026)

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-october-2026
243•mrbn100ful•5h ago•133 comments

A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

https://github.com/plbrault/youre-the-os
341•exploraz•3d ago•75 comments

Made a Rust DB run spatial queries on gaming GPU RT cores, beating an H100

https://sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/2026/06/26/sedonadb-04-gpu-accelerated-spatial-joins/
3•dr-jia-yu•1h ago•0 comments

The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet
1055•bilsbie•22h ago•546 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.