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Claude Fable 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
1495•Philpax•5h ago•1168 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...
82•mips_avatar•52m ago•24 comments

Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.24.0-released.html
69•fossdd•1h ago•10 comments

Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

https://aarushgupta.io/posts/kan-fpga/
107•ag2718•2h ago•14 comments

Upcoming breaking changes for NPM v12

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-upcoming-breaking-changes-for-npm-v12/
37•plasma•1h ago•7 comments

Making Graphics Like it's 1993

https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/
705•sklopec•11h ago•115 comments

Test-case reducers are underappreciated debugging tools

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/test_case_reducers_are_underappreciated_debugging_tools.html
52•ltratt•10h ago•8 comments

Exif Smuggling

https://github.com/signalblur/exifsmugglingpoc
18•rolph•1h ago•7 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
136•wglb•1d ago•18 comments

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/microsofts-open-source-tools-were-hacked-to-steal-passwords-of-...
514•raffael_de•14h ago•174 comments

Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale at Amazon

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2026/06/flat-datacenter-networks-at-scale/
62•tanelpoder•18h ago•5 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/
219•speckx•3h ago•99 comments

Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents

https://blog.gitbutler.com/true-grit
9•cbrewster•2h ago•0 comments

The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)

https://bnikolic.co.uk/blog/linux-ld-debug.html
47•tanelpoder•4h ago•1 comments

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

https://opencv.org/opencv-5/
649•ternaus•3d ago•116 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
253•piskov•23h ago•202 comments

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

29•nils_spatial•5h ago•7 comments

Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-failed-make-its-ai-tool-comply-eu-regulations-eu-commissio...
318•flanged•5h ago•532 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-...
357•berlianta•6h ago•237 comments

Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps

https://biffweb.com/p/core/
95•jacobobryant•5h ago•19 comments

Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?

99•y1n0•3h ago•115 comments

Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15184
104•Anon84•8h ago•46 comments

Blaise v0.10.0: Native Back End, Threads and Incremental Compilation

https://github.com/graemeg/blaise/discussions/82
11•mariuz•1d ago•0 comments

The iPhone's Last Stand?

https://stratechery.com/2026/the-iphones-last-stand/
154•swolpers•12h ago•191 comments

Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to ALPRs

https://www.404media.co/this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-pla...
29•Cider9986•1h ago•9 comments

Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/emerge-career/jobs/v0S1AEG-founding-growth-marketer
1•gabesaruhashi•10h ago

Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

https://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/
126•qunabu•10h ago•32 comments

Where is the AI jobs crisis?

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/the-daily-spark/where-is-the-ai-jobs-crisis
119•bwestergard•4h ago•174 comments

Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs

https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32
80•luke8086•2d ago•87 comments

Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24647
87•galsapir•7h ago•14 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.