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Running local models is good now

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/
596•jfb•4h ago•279 comments

Claude: Elevated errors across many models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/xmhsglsz3h3w
112•forks•1h ago•85 comments

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/
545•itsmarcelg•8h ago•923 comments

TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

https://mareksuppa.com/til/bash-dev-tcp-http-without-curl/
83•mrshu•2h ago•44 comments

Mechanical Watch (2022)

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
527•razin•7h ago•98 comments

Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts

https://securelist.com/dozens-of-malicious-wallpapers-found-on-steam-workshop/120186/
39•speckx•1h ago•23 comments

GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

https://www.tno.nl/en/digital/artificial-intelligence/gpt-nl/
22•root-parent•55m ago•4 comments

But yak shaving is fun

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/32.html
106•parksb•4h ago•26 comments

Making ast.walk 220x Faster

https://reflex.dev/blog/why-ast-walk-when-you-can-ast-sprint/
45•palashawas•2h ago•9 comments

SubQ 1.1 Small

https://subq.ai/subq-1-1-small-technical-report
75•EDM115•3h ago•34 comments

10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/06/10g-ethernet-switching-to-broadcom-sfp-plus
18•gpjt•1h ago•9 comments

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

https://www.theverge.com/tech/942854/apple-vehicle-motion-cues-review-really-work
225•neilfrndes•2h ago•76 comments

Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of
24•pseudolus•3h ago•7 comments

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

https://tck.mn/blog/correlated-randomness-sts2/
229•rdmuser•9h ago•73 comments

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2064095424420487226
766•apitman•13h ago•366 comments

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering
137•throwarayes•2h ago•78 comments

Formal Methods and the Future of Programming

https://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-index/
24•nextos•4d ago•1 comments

After AI Takes Everything

https://ursb.me/en/posts/after-ai-takes-everything/
63•speckx•3h ago•54 comments

The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260615-00/?p=112419
452•paulmooreparks•14h ago•146 comments

Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-robotsuite
56•ilreb•5h ago•5 comments

Cooling at the Speed of Light

https://cacm.acm.org/news/cooling-at-the-speed-of-light/
10•sohkamyung•3d ago•1 comments

Stop Using JWTs

https://gist.github.com/samsch/0d1f3d3b4745d778f78b230cf6061452
25•dzonga•1h ago•13 comments

The octopus architecture for AI agents

https://blog.goodman.dev/blog/octopus-agent-architecture/
11•joshbetz•1h ago•2 comments

An interview with an Apple emoji designer

https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2026/06/ollie-wagner/
72•nate•3d ago•36 comments

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

https://tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-already-killed-nonfiction/
7•imakwana•1h ago•2 comments

'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York

https://www.fastcompany.com/91558427/ghost-jobs-could-soon-be-illegal-in-new-york
53•toomuchtodo•1h ago•23 comments

Specs Augmented Reality Glasses

https://newsroom.snap.com/introducing-specs-augmented-reality-glasses
24•haberdasher•1h ago•11 comments

Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields

https://sighack.com/post/getting-creative-with-perlin-noise-fields
132•0x000xca0xfe•2d ago•21 comments

Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator

https://www.unicorn-engine.org/
69•tosh•7h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/
130•california-og•14h ago•21 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
•
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.