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British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled

https://liveandletsfly.com/british-airways-meta-smart-glasses-filming/
37•bookofjoe•23m ago•23 comments

Someone Behind the Software

https://karrisaarinen.com/posts/someone-behind-the-software/
43•tosh•1h ago•13 comments

RepRapMicron

https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
206•RobotToaster•4h ago•33 comments

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

https://www.righto.com/2026/10/8087-addition-subtraction-microcode.html
31•pwg•1h ago•5 comments

macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL

https://developer.apple.com/forums/verify-human/verify.html?next=/forums/thread/850550
182•Audiophilip•2h ago•156 comments

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching

https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/
58•hnisjafx40•3h ago•22 comments

Sigsaly: Churchill's top secret hotline to the President

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/iwm/cwr/telephone
41•stmw•3d ago•3 comments

DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/search/
441•fagnerbrack•11h ago•212 comments

Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-experts-warn-metas-new-terms-still-grant-broad-scraping-p...
175•DeepLogin•7h ago•48 comments

Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake

https://legendofhyrule.com/
89•jsomau•4h ago•40 comments

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

https://github.com/0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper
125•_Microft•6h ago•10 comments

Parser Combinators

https://t3.at/blog/2026-10-17-parser-combinators/
171•schindlabua•9h ago•63 comments

The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience (1998)

https://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/EDTECD.html
24•jruohonen•4h ago•2 comments

How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving

https://www.readtheprofile.com/p/elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything
278•MaysonL•14h ago•382 comments

Beyond Tetris: The Other Games of Alexey Pajitnov [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_LPimUJMs
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Voyage of the Paper Canoe: 2500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, 1874-5

http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nhb/paperc/intro.html
16•Eridanus2•2d ago•2 comments

I Electrified My Push Scooter with a Power Drill

https://eddieabbondanz.io/post/shop/drill-powered-scooter/
11•speckx•3d ago•3 comments

Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03266-x
528•alkyon•1d ago•114 comments

Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

https://teal-language.org/
125•Lyngbakr•1d ago•53 comments

Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping

https://sphinx-six-theta.vercel.app/
212•critiquebrowser•13h ago•73 comments

The Brain Sandwich

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/10/02/the-brain-sandwich/
43•keyle•6h ago•16 comments

Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?

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78•smilelamp•2h ago•97 comments

Hatching (Heraldry)

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56•theanonymousone•3d ago•13 comments

Regex visualized as 3D marble run

https://www.regexmarblerun.com/
69•seizethecheese•1d ago•26 comments

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013195/ai-agents-blocked-web
110•evolve2k•2h ago•93 comments

Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG

https://pele.run/
542•dchest•1d ago•51 comments

Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States

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333•sohkamyung•1d ago•85 comments

Lean now ships with verified kernels

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-10-15-lean-now-ships-with-verified-kernels/
184•matt_d•2d ago•66 comments

How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/impossible-refund
60•DeepLogin•5h ago•61 comments

Chirp Pong – uses microphones and audio for networked game play

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/15/chirp-pong/
22•havaloc•2d ago•11 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.