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Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25

https://slcyber.io/research-center/exploit-brokers-pay-500000-for-a-wordpress-rce-i-found-one-wit...
189•infosecau•4h ago•104 comments

Airport Simulator

https://airport.apunen.com/
15•apunen•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

2504•section33•21h ago•278 comments

Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight

https://github.com/hgaiser/moonshine
237•wertyk•12h ago•95 comments

Airbus Takes Flight from AWS

https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/07/20/airbus-takes-flight-from-aws-what-happens-next-...
91•bbg2401•2h ago•56 comments

The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/the-trump-administrations-threat-to-sci...
47•surprisetalk•27m ago•6 comments

Moist Towelette Museum

https://moisttowelettemuseum.com/
16•bookofjoe•3d ago•2 comments

LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques

https://github.com/Saivineeth147/lora-speedrun
100•Vineeth147•8h ago•18 comments

What does the Riemann zeta function have to do with the distribution of primes?

https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/rh
21•mb1699•2d ago•3 comments

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/claude-code-in-bun-in-rust/
555•tosh•1d ago•740 comments

Eliminating Go bounds checks with unsafe

https://blog.andr2i.com/posts/2026-07-06-eliminating-go-bound-checks-with-unsafe
24•abnercoimbre•5d ago•15 comments

Orion Browser by Kagi

https://orionbrowser.com/
237•sebjones•17h ago•173 comments

Xiaomi-Robotics-1

https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html
280•ilreb•7h ago•197 comments

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

https://chipweinberger.com/articles/20260719-hardware-is-not-so-hard
513•chipweinberger•1d ago•233 comments

Self-Powered Trailers Promise Leaner Freight Runs

https://spectrum.ieee.org/self-powered-trailers-freight-decarbonization
53•rbanffy•1w ago•31 comments

Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt

https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/07/sealed-tomb-of-a-high-official-or-priest-filled-with-pa...
61•isaacfrond•5d ago•47 comments

Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4
331•ObviouslyFlamer•1d ago•214 comments

The Zen of Parallel Programming

https://smolnero.com/posts/the-zen-of-parallel-programming
175•edgar_ortega•5d ago•26 comments

When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?

https://theconversation.com/when-can-a-power-company-take-your-land-for-data-center-infrastructur...
127•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•97 comments

11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies' Archive of Americana Architecture

https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/free-photos-from-john-margolies-archive-of-americana-architec...
82•gslin•4d ago•3 comments

Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg8edqq5g5o
168•teleforce•22h ago•130 comments

Qwen 3.8

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291
900•nh43215rgb•1d ago•629 comments

HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router

https://justsomebody.dev/blog/mikrotik-home-router
136•rafal_opilowski•17h ago•106 comments

1-Bit LLM in the Browser

https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/bonsai-webgpu
52•simonebrunozzi•3d ago•25 comments

I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

https://en.andros.dev/blog/0b8e451e/i-joined-the-indieweb-heres-what-i-learned/
221•andros•1d ago•114 comments

I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens

https://quesma.com/blog/custom-deep-research-pipeline/
143•bkotrys•1d ago•191 comments

Who Is America's Homer?

https://www.plough.com/articles/who-is-americas-homer
90•samclemens•5d ago•193 comments

C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack (C64 Basic Part 8)

https://retrogamecoders.com/c64-basic-dungeon-part8/
80•ibobev•21h ago•6 comments

HMD Touch 4G

https://www.hmd.com/en_int/hmd-touch-4g
82•thisislife2•19h ago•94 comments

Dupes took over the world

https://www.vox.com/podcasts/493930/dupe-culture-fender-ugg-quince-tiktok-amazon-online-shopping
100•gumby•5d ago•101 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.