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US bans differential privacy in Census data

https://desfontain.es/blog/banning-noise.html
264•nl•2h ago•104 comments

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/12/treating-pancreatic-tumours-may-have-reve...
79•andsoitis•3h ago•16 comments

Orthodox C++

https://bkaradzic.github.io/posts/orthodoxc++/
43•signa11•2h ago•25 comments

Every Frame Perfect

https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/
141•ravenical•5h ago•29 comments

Introduction to the experience of rendering Arabic typography&its technical debt

https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/
63•bookofjoe•4h ago•8 comments

AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

https://github.com/tensorzero/tensorzero
165•hek2sch•4h ago•115 comments

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/
162•vikas-sharma•7h ago•79 comments

Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire

https://new.roman-names.com/
65•metiscus•2d ago•14 comments

Appreciating Exif

https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/appreciating-exif/
23•burnto•3d ago•1 comments

The state of building user interfaces in Rust

https://areweguiyet.com/#ecosystem
110•mahirsaid•2d ago•70 comments

Electric motors with no rare earths

https://www.renaultgroup.com/en/magazine/energy-and-powertrains/all-about-electric-motors-with-no...
630•bestouff•18h ago•181 comments

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

https://imil.net/blog/posts/2026/rtx-5080-+-rtx-3090-setup-80+-tok-s-on-qwen-3.6-27b-q8/
74•iMil•6h ago•22 comments

An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/an-interview-with-intels-kira-boyko
35•lumpa•4h ago•1 comments

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

https://innovativegenomics.org/news/crispr-technique-selectively-shreds-cancer-cells/
932•gmays•1d ago•203 comments

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
2892•Dylan1312•15h ago•2112 comments

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-More-Than-1500
185•qwertox•4h ago•93 comments

Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

https://github.com/Paca-AI/paca
87•pikann22•6h ago•30 comments

What about OpenCL and CUDA C++ alternatives?

https://www.modular.com/blog/democratizing-ai-compute-part-5-what-about-cuda-c-alternatives
7•eatonphil•4d ago•0 comments

Open source AI must win

https://opensourceaimustwin.com/?share=v2
1347•vednig•14h ago•416 comments

Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery

https://hallucinate.site/gallery
55•stagas•4h ago•15 comments

The computer science degree isn’t dead

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computer-science-degree-isnt-dead
167•jnord•3d ago•160 comments

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos
439•kkm•23h ago•112 comments

Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model

https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/claude-fable-shepherds-dog
142•vnglst•10h ago•111 comments

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

https://putt.day/
253•ellg•17h ago•98 comments

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/2064661778978533571
433•marc__1•1d ago•228 comments

Leaving Mozilla

https://blog.unitedheroes.net/5751
400•martey•10h ago•230 comments

There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-there-is-a-massive-shadow
416•theahura•11h ago•393 comments

Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

https://depthfirst.com/research/21-zero-days-in-ffmpeg
268•redbell•18h ago•173 comments

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/
229•DASD•20h ago•110 comments

H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/congress-just-rushed-through-disastrous-copyright-office-ov...
261•Cider9986•2d ago•105 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.