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Claude Code sends your email address to websites

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/107757
847•motoroco•8h ago•279 comments

sshole

https://sshhole.com
2526•josemrb•18h ago•616 comments

MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-83844
438•kuberwastaken•9h ago•166 comments

Nvidia Kubernetes Engine (NVKE)

https://github.com/dsx-ai-factory/nvke
46•gkapur•3h ago•14 comments

Pwn.college

https://pwn.college/
67•tripdout•2h ago•7 comments

Inkling 2 Small

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small/
150•Philpax•6h ago•53 comments

The Hackintosh Reborn

https://www.naut.ca/blog/2026/11/05/the-hackintosh-reborn-with-ai/
275•rubatuga•11h ago•132 comments

Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier

https://village.dev/blog/closed-ai-models-now-dominate-the-price-performance-frontier/
50•kevin_hu•3h ago•39 comments

How accurately did science fiction stories predict AI?

https://jamesyu.org/science-fiction-predictions-of-ai/
18•jamesjyu•1h ago•22 comments

Window Sweaters

https://github.com/saragordic/window-sweaters
289•nickswalker•13h ago•92 comments

From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/from-linux-to-wikipedia-how-volunteers-build-the-internet/
10•jonbaer•2h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Firenook – Firebase emulators in Rust: 40× faster writes, 10× less RAM

https://firenook.dev/
86•sanjevirau•17h ago•15 comments

MoofTCP – A modern replacement for MacTCP on 68k Macs

https://github.com/matthewmrichter/mooftcp
34•marcusbasant•5h ago•20 comments

Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3

https://github.com/rivet-dev/rivet
88•NathanFlurry•13h ago•46 comments

Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mark-cuban-says-facebook-knowingly-213000020.html
243•randycupertino•7h ago•109 comments

Show HN: A decent text-to-image model trained for ~$20K (Apache 2.0 Weights)

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/pjit-21k
196•schopra909•1d ago•17 comments

September in Servo: <progress>, rounded rectangles, and more

https://servo.org/blog/2026/11/05/september-in-servo/
219•iamnothere•15h ago•53 comments

Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-signature-27-2/
442•monneyboi•14h ago•321 comments

Download your favourite YouTube videos

https://criminallyvulgar.dev/you-should-absolutely-download-your-favourite-youtube-videos/
313•surprisetalk•17h ago•146 comments

Goodbye from Salon

https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/
540•mkeeter•10h ago•197 comments

I wish tech companies knew more about me

https://rakhim.exotext.com/i-wish-tech-companies-knew-more-about-me
368•freetonik•16h ago•315 comments

Pangram Image 1.0

https://www.pangram.com/blog/introducing-pangram-image-1-0
87•gmays•10h ago•38 comments

MCP Explained

https://mcp-explained.com/
280•rwilinski•16h ago•118 comments

Obscure audio codec is a perfect fit for the N64

https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/11/n64-ulc-codec
218•frostbyte7•17h ago•27 comments

Search for everyone

https://kagi.com/changelog#11820
626•elashri•10h ago•322 comments

The Stacks Project, Formalized in Lean

https://axiommath.ai/research/the-stacks-project-formalized/
82•namanbnsl•14h ago•23 comments

Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base

https://ernie.baidu.com/release/ernie-5-5-flash-base/
172•pretext•20h ago•96 comments

So my ISP was hijacking my DNS

https://www.karthihegde.dev/posts/dns_tampering
194•frostbyte7•1d ago•142 comments

Show HN: Stroq – a local audit of what your coding agent did and why

https://github.com/AGGIB/Stroq
80•agybay_07•14h ago•29 comments

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Product Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bild-ai/jobs
1•rooppal•13h ago
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.