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macOS Container Machines

https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/container-machine.md
519•timsneath•5h ago•188 comments

Claude Fable 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
2027•Philpax•13h ago•1565 comments

Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-upcoming-breaking-changes-for-npm-v12/
295•plasma•9h ago•99 comments

Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery

https://twitter.com/RichardSSutton/status/2061216087744946656
76•yimby•3h ago•37 comments

German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews

https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-word...
297•ahlCVA•4h ago•188 comments

Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs

https://www.ddmckinnon.com/2026/06/09/vibe-coding-my-way-to-a-healthy-family-introducing-gamow-labs/
30•dmckinno•2h ago•4 comments

RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon

https://blog.oscars.dev/posts/rip-software-hackathons-long-live-the-hardware-hackathon/
123•ozcap•7h ago•52 comments

Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

https://aarushgupta.io/posts/kan-fpga/
199•ag2718•10h ago•29 comments

The oldest surviving animated feature film at 100

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260603-how-a-26-year-old-german-woman-made-the-worlds-oldes...
76•1659447091•3d ago•7 comments

More Molly Guards

https://unsung.aresluna.org/more-molly-guards/
93•zdw•3d ago•8 comments

What it feels like to work with Mythos

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos
225•swolpers•12h ago•193 comments

If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know

https://jonready.com/blog/posts/claude-fable5-is-allowed-to-sabotage-your-app-if-youre-a-competit...
695•mips_avatar•8h ago•350 comments

Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge, Opera to follow

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-is-killing-all-ublock-origin-bypasses-microsoft-edge-op...
22•d3Xt3r•26m ago•11 comments

Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses

https://gitpush--force.com/commits/2026/06/lies-we-tell-ourselves-about-email/
87•theanonymousone•1d ago•58 comments

OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

https://opencv.org/opencv-5/
735•ternaus•4d ago•132 comments

Computer Lessons

https://technicshistory.com/2026/06/06/computer-lessons/
5•cfmcdonald•1d ago•0 comments

CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/ceos-who-think-ai-replaces-their-employees-are-just-bad-ceos/
573•speckx•11h ago•224 comments

Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.7-June-04-2026-diff.pdf
377•piskov•1d ago•311 comments

Surprise, Pay $1000

https://forestwalk.ai/blog/surprise-blacksmith-costs/
69•apike•8h ago•12 comments

Test-case reducers are underappreciated debugging tools

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/test_case_reducers_are_underappreciated_debugging_tools.html
109•ltratt•18h ago•13 comments

A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-giant-star-destroyed-universe-rarest.html
178•wglb•1d ago•26 comments

Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV

43•nils_spatial•13h ago•15 comments

Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents

https://blog.gitbutler.com/true-grit
114•cbrewster•10h ago•159 comments

Value Numbering

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/value-numbering/
17•surprisetalk•1d ago•0 comments

Exif Smuggling (2025)

https://github.com/signalblur/exifsmugglingpoc
77•rolph•9h ago•24 comments

Making Graphics Like it's 1993

https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/
825•sklopec•19h ago•140 comments

It's death

https://jesseduffield.com/ITS-DEATH/
155•inatreecrown2•6h ago•48 comments

WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

https://cupertinolens.com/2026/06/09/wwdc-2026-apple-is-folding/
208•brandonb•16h ago•236 comments

The Evolution of 'More Like This'

https://manticoresearch.com/blog/the-evolution-of-more-like-this/
5•snikolaev•2h ago•0 comments

FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-...
510•berlianta•14h ago•325 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.