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GPT-6 Astra

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
1126•kibae•4h ago•856 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
399•altertable•4h ago•122 comments

.name Termination

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/
1225•pavel_lishin•8h ago•351 comments

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM86DBOqgPM
142•feb•2d ago•89 comments

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

https://armature.tech/blog/which-tools-coding-agents-install
60•screm•2h ago•16 comments

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

https://babyloniantwins.com/blog/porting-a-1993-amiga-game-to-godot/
162•rabahs•8h ago•56 comments

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/
237•karimf•7h ago•78 comments

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

https://anyhumanever.com/
431•thinkingemote•8h ago•212 comments

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california
116•speckx•7h ago•34 comments

Protecting Engineers' Skills in the AI Era

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-engineer-skills
9•rbanffy•26m ago•3 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

https://tasklet.ai/careers/customer-success-engineer
1•mayop100•2h ago

GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections, Including TB

https://gizmodo.com/ozempic-and-other-glp-1s-are-being-linked-to-fewer-serious-infections-includi...
10•gumby•48m ago•5 comments

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

https://www.sciencealert.com/gps-glitched-across-the-us-by-as-much-as-33-feet-scientists-have-nev...
94•thread_id•22h ago•31 comments

Xanadu was waiting for agents

https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu
64•nsm•2d ago•25 comments

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

https://arcprize.org/blog/astra
142•vignesh_warar•3h ago•79 comments

Models Don't Go Rogue

https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-go-rogue/
8•cdrnsf•59m ago•7 comments

A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it

https://www.kevin.md/the-business-card-that-lights-up.md/
17•thekevintang•2d ago•4 comments

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007
160•gmays•22h ago•43 comments

Working to Make Python Lazy

https://iscinumpy.dev/post/flake8-lazy/
24•js2•2d ago•0 comments

How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PLisnSFir8y5AHkmP/how-concerned-should-we-be-about-astra-s-recurrent
75•yurivish•6h ago•38 comments

Unusual Suspects

https://neal.fun/unusual-suspects/
87•beeperboy95•1d ago•20 comments

The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions

https://yalereview.org/article/emily-ogden-edgar-allan-poe
45•lermontov•1d ago•19 comments

Audacity 4.0

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0
1023•ClydeN•12h ago•225 comments

Dextroproporphan: An Analogue for a Better Dextromethorphan

https://monfak.top/blog/posts/dextroproporphan
20•znano•1d ago•7 comments

Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2095453567955968398
261•tosh•12h ago•178 comments

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/
55•codechicago277•4h ago•53 comments

Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

317•halcdev•8h ago•512 comments

Gloria Steinem has died

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/03/gloria-steinem-groundbreaking-feminist-campaigner-d...
114•mellosouls•12h ago•43 comments

Static Allocation, Constant Work

https://matklad.github.io/2026/09/02/static-allocation-constant-work.html
100•surprisetalk•1d ago•17 comments

How to get a free .arpa domain

https://hawksley.dev/blog/get-free-arpa-domain
105•ethanhawksley•3d ago•13 comments
Open in hackernews

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.