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Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0

https://brew.sh/2026/06/11/homebrew-6.0.0/
719•mikemcquaid•7h ago•174 comments

MiMo Code is now released and open-source

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimocode
368•apeters•6h ago•201 comments

Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations

https://www.kennethpayne.uk/p/shall-we-play-a-game
28•nick238•1h ago•13 comments

Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7416
266•hmokiguess•5h ago•95 comments

I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus

https://newsletter.masilotti.com/p/i-stopped-tracking-my-time-now-i
24•joemasilotti•1h ago•14 comments

The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix

https://mrbruh.com/amd2/
174•MrBruh•5h ago•66 comments

Emacs appearances in pop culture

https://ianyepan.github.io/posts/emacs-in-pop-culture/
183•ggcr•1d ago•30 comments

Waymo Premier

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/06/waymo-premier/
119•boulos•5h ago•282 comments

Ear Training Practice Exercises

https://tonedear.com/
71•mattbit•3d ago•50 comments

Travel Locally, Where You Are

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/travel-where-you-are/
33•zazuke•1h ago•15 comments

Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/developer-gets-half-life-running-at-30-f...
161•ljf•3d ago•42 comments

macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/macOS-27-Beta-Breaks-Asahi
173•josephcsible•2d ago•76 comments

Software Is Made Between Commits

https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-deltadb
153•jeremy_k•4h ago•105 comments

Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones

https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/
664•vrganj•14h ago•302 comments

Lines of code got a better publicist

https://curlewis.co.nz/posts/lines-of-code-got-a-better-publicist/
325•RyeCombinator•8h ago•218 comments

Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1
175•yogthos•8h ago•16 comments

The Dynamo and the Computer: The Modern Productivity Paradox (1989) [pdf]

https://www.almendron.com/tribuna/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/the-dynamo-and-the-computer-an-histo...
32•simonpure•1d ago•3 comments

Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/solar-energy-us-coal
350•neilfrndes•5h ago•163 comments

Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks

https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/claude-fable-5-mythos-grade-hype
126•bugvader•5h ago•43 comments

Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)

https://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-power.html
37•geerlingguy•3h ago•4 comments

Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar

https://computerhistory.org/stories/explorers-of-the-lost-computers/
74•andrewstuart•5d ago•17 comments

Building agents without harness engineering

https://rajitkhanna.com/agents/
21•rajit•3h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Boo – screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty

https://github.com/coder/boo
4•kylecarbs•31m ago•0 comments

Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-f...
157•deadgopher•1d ago•122 comments

FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL

https://github.com/icitry/FPS.cob
82•MBCook•6h ago•51 comments

Programming a GBA Game on an iPhone

https://blog.adamledoux.net/posts/2026-06-08-programming-a-gba-game-on-an-iphone.html
33•akkartik•1d ago•4 comments

Who Runs the Ransomware Group 'The Gentlemen?'

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/who-runs-the-ransomware-group-the-gentlemen/
27•Bender•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents

https://github.com/denoland/clawpatrol
68•rough-sea•2d ago•24 comments

Doing nothing at work

https://www.seangoedecke.com/doing-nothing-at-work/
295•Sukram21•3d ago•99 comments

A new era for software testing

https://antirez.com/news/168
93•Chrisszz•4d ago•31 comments
Open in hackernews

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.