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U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations

https://www.semafor.com/article/06/27/2026/us-releases-powerful-anthropic-model-mythos-to-some-us...
253•bobrenjc93•4h ago•243 comments

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
878•minimaxir•10h ago•530 comments

Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/535/why-does-kinetic-energy-increase-quadratically-no...
121•ProxyTracer•4h ago•49 comments

Show HN: Hacker News on a Train Station Style Flip Board

https://popflame.quickish.space/hn-flipboard/
23•PaybackTony•2h ago•2 comments

AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics
66•rbanffy•4h ago•28 comments

A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing

https://github.com/Tessil/hopscotch-map
71•gjvc•6h ago•11 comments

MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-isolated-sandboxes-with-full-lifecycle-control-aws-lambda-in...
279•justincormack•3d ago•159 comments

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/26/openai-says-us-government-will-vet-users-its...
870•alain94040•8h ago•960 comments

Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres

https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbosify-py
32•KraftyOne•2d ago•6 comments

The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

https://blog.doubleword.ai/frontier-os-llm
135•kkm•6h ago•112 comments

Making Sense of Proof by Contradiction [pdf]

https://www.foster77.co.uk/Foster,%20Scottish%20Mathematical%20Council%20Journal,%20Making%20sens...
13•surprisetalk•3d ago•2 comments

We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme
263•hn_acker•6h ago•87 comments

Om

https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om
156•throw0101a•3h ago•10 comments

A Tiny Compiler for Data-Parallel Kernels

https://healeycodes.com/a-tiny-compiler-for-data-parallel-kernels
31•healeycodes•1d ago•3 comments

Ultrasound imaging of the brain

https://alephneuro.com/blog/ultrasound-brain
247•rossant•15h ago•100 comments

Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor

https://github.com/workweave/router
154•adchurch•10h ago•90 comments

The "Bizarre Headgear" exhibit at the Sam Noble museum

https://svpow.com/2026/05/15/the-bizarre-headgear-exhibit-at-the-sam-noble-museum-is-incredible/
72•surprisetalk•3d ago•7 comments

Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression

https://kirill.korins.ky/articles/hellishly-slow-level-13-deflate-compression/
6•zX41ZdbW•4d ago•0 comments

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

https://hightouch.com/careers#open-positions
1•joshwget•6h ago

Fusion Programming Language

https://fusion-lang.org/
3•efrecon•2d ago•2 comments

What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?

https://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html#what-is-a-nomogram-and-wh...
95•Eridanus2•9h ago•18 comments

Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74yn7v7k4qo
64•speckx•8h ago•25 comments

A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage

https://ngrok.com/blog/aol-was-down-1996
44•EndEntire•2d ago•9 comments

Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It

https://acoup.blog/2026/06/26/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-iii-paying-for...
65•jfoucher•9h ago•7 comments

PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts

https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013
183•ortusdux•7h ago•108 comments

The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted

69•gcanyon•5h ago•36 comments

Modern GPU Programming for MLSys

https://mlc.ai/modern-gpu-programming-for-mlsys/
66•crowwork•3d ago•11 comments

Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory

https://gossamer-lang.org/
70•mwheeler•8h ago•63 comments

LaTeX.wasm: LaTeX Engines in Browsers

https://www.swiftlatex.com/
92•theanonymousone•3d ago•32 comments

My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/my-steam-machine-is-a-50ft-hdmi-cable/
177•speckx•3d ago•162 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.