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UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases

https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-de...
182•XzetaU8•3h ago•119 comments

Gaussian Point Splatting

https://momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2026.html
48•ibobev•1h ago•24 comments

They’re made out of weights

https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights
845•MaxLeiter•12h ago•331 comments

Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/failing-grades-soar-as-professors-see-greater-ai-u...
426•littlexsparkee•12h ago•332 comments

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_Bay_Model
35•tosh•1d ago•7 comments

Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/06/03/elixir-v1-20-0-released/
819•cloud8421•17h ago•303 comments

AccessOwl (YC S22) is hiring an AI TypeScript Engineer to connect 300 SaaS tools

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/accessowl/jobs/hfWAhVp-ai-enabled-senior-software-engineer-...
1•mathiasn•26m ago

Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

https://uruky.com/?il=en
98•BrunoBernardino•3h ago•86 comments

Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git

https://medium.com/@Koukyosyumei/claude-code-and-codex-can-have-real-time-conversation-via-git-f9...
41•syumei•3d ago•32 comments

Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/
879•rvz•20h ago•341 comments

I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it

https://kasra.blog/blog/i-spent-1500-seeing-if-llms-could-hack-my-app/
259•jc4p•11h ago•124 comments

Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history

https://apnews.com/article/notre-dame-dig-treasures-paris-archaeology-roman-dae41f792c1402faf32a8...
75•cobbzilla•2d ago•17 comments

Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

https://tomotama.com/kiki
17•tobr•3d ago•1 comments

thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home

https://blog.hellas.ai/blog/thunderbolt-ibverbs/
46•zdw•1d ago•1 comments

Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/
501•lordleft•18h ago•856 comments

The ways we contain Claude across products

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude
151•jbredeche•11h ago•71 comments

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-pers...
24•fidotron•47m ago•0 comments

I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

https://burntsushi.net/encephalitis/
647•Tomte•22h ago•196 comments

Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/uber-caps-usage/
516•pdyc•1d ago•644 comments

When su replaced login for becoming another Unix login

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/SuAsLoginReplacement
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DaVinci Resolve 21

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/whatsnew
476•pentagrama•22h ago•218 comments

Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years

https://fagnerbrack.com/learn-sql-once-use-it-for-30-years-9aceb0bdee03
125•karakoram•3d ago•80 comments

Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts

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131•1970-01-01•2d ago•67 comments

ESP32-S31

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-s31
318•volemo•20h ago•169 comments

A Man Who Reads Books for a Living

https://lithub.com/the-man-who-reads-books-for-a-living-one-every-two-days/
135•gmays•16h ago•98 comments

CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment

https://github.com/tsupplis/cpm86-crossdev
41•elvis70•3d ago•10 comments

A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/06/03/pq-certs
274•SGran•21h ago•151 comments

Ableton Extensions SDK

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/extensions/
136•bennett_dev•15h ago•57 comments

Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground

https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground
255•pseudolus•1d ago•290 comments

Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig

https://github.com/duanebester/gooey
187•ksec•19h ago•73 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.