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Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography
1763•kirushik•15h ago•504 comments

Claude Sonnet 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5
1060•marinesebastian•13h ago•615 comments

The first early human eggs from stem cells

https://www.conception.bio/science-and-updates/the-first-early-human-eggs-from-stem-cells
62•dsr12•2h ago•13 comments

Google copybara: moving code between repositories

https://github.com/google/copybara
179•reconnecting•7h ago•25 comments

ArXiv's Next Chapter

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/06/30/arxivs-next-chapter/
62•subset•4h ago•7 comments

Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072106151890809341
589•Pragmata•7h ago•308 comments

Claude Science

https://claude.com/product/claude-science
457•lebovic•14h ago•135 comments

Nano Banana 2 Lite

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash-lite/
355•minimaxir•14h ago•143 comments

Forestiere Underground Gardens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Gardens
59•onemoresoop•5h ago•11 comments

How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown

https://mechanical-pencil.com/products/car
171•Muhammad523•2d ago•33 comments

Matrix Orthogonalization Improves Memory in Recurrent Models

https://ayushtambde.com/blog/matrix-orthogonalization-improves-memory-in-recurrent-models/
21•at2005•1h ago•2 comments

Leanstral 1.5

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/model-cards/leanstral-1-5-26-06
173•vetronauta•10h ago•50 comments

Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/06/pystd-standard-library-similar-ish.html
20•ibobev•4d ago•6 comments

How information theory saved my word game

https://motplot.app/helloworld
7•jamwise•2d ago•3 comments

CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3

https://home.cern/cern-bids-farewell-to-the-lhc-and-enters-long-shutdown-3/
193•HelloUsername•1d ago•50 comments

I ported Kubernetes to the browser

https://ngrok.com/blog/i-ported-kubernetes-to-the-browser
236•peterdemin•10h ago•75 comments

From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

https://ai.meta.com/blog/brain2qwerty-brain-ai-human-communication/?_fb_noscript=1
144•alok-g•9h ago•75 comments

Ante: A new way to blend borrow checking and reference counting

https://verdagon.dev/blog/ante-blending-borrowing-rc
80•g0xA52A2A•2d ago•19 comments

Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made

https://soranews24.com/2026/06/30/tokyo-has-only-two-barley-tea-makers-and-we-visited-one-to-see-...
121•zdw•11h ago•24 comments

I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025)

https://gauthier-lechevalier.com/radar
170•GL26•13h ago•40 comments

Scaling Laws, Carefully

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-06-24-scaling-laws/
55•tehnub•4d ago•15 comments

Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

https://hatari.frama.io/hatari/online/hatari.html
57•gregsadetsky•8h ago•5 comments

Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

https://karolina.mgdubiel.com/drone/
353•noleary•3d ago•75 comments

Stroustrup's Rule (2024)

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/stroustrups-rule/
85•bmacho•3d ago•19 comments

Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant

https://nickcarr.com/scouting-a-decommissioned-nuclear-power-plant/
122•mkmk•6d ago•50 comments

How employment changes when firms adopt generative AI

https://ramp.com/data/ai-jobs-impact
37•nreece•2h ago•25 comments

Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/959899/meta-ai-glasses-paywall-rate-limit
15•Exoristos•1h ago•2 comments

Have you restarted your computer this week?

https://taonaw.com/2026/06/27/have-you-restarted-your-computer.html
157•surprisetalk•16h ago•278 comments

Segmenting Robot Video into Actionable Subtasks

https://macrodata.co/blog/annotating-robot-video-subtasks
12•tomaspduarte•1d ago•2 comments

Knoppix

https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
292•hoangvmpc•18h ago•109 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
•
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.