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The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/
107•gregsadetsky•1d ago•35 comments

Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/93njd414rpbx
100•dkpk•3h ago•79 comments

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-orange-cats-finally-revealed-after-60-year-search
115•bookofjoe•1d ago•92 comments

Fingerprints are the new cookies

https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies
571•royfish•17h ago•274 comments

Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html
184•lukaslalinsky•10h ago•69 comments

QGIS bans AI assisted contributions

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387
286•bwnkl•4h ago•294 comments

Choreographic Programming in Rust

https://github.com/hibanaworks/hibana
33•o8vm•1d ago•21 comments

Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/balcony-plug-in-solar-panels-renewable-energy
50•speckx•1h ago•39 comments

Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?

https://mortoray.com/why-arent-ai-companies-being-charged-for-hacking/
195•ingve•53m ago•151 comments

Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

https://nanolathe.gg
608•jttnr•21h ago•227 comments

Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly

https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp
150•deadxwarrior•8h ago•81 comments

Calculus with Julia

https://jverzani.github.io/CalculusWithJuliaNotes.jl/
196•subset•1d ago•33 comments

Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad

https://github.com/Geramy/LemonSeed-Studio
64•joshcsimmons•1d ago•18 comments

Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby

https://blog.julik.nl/2026/10/the-weimar-of-ruby
21•julik•4h ago•0 comments

An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/an-unmade-film-shaped-hayao-miyazaki
15•vinhnx•1h ago•1 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
464•Anon84•1d ago•467 comments

Cartographers of North Korea (2019)

https://cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so/
301•edent•19h ago•61 comments

Bag of Decisions Reranker

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/10/08/bag-of-decisions.html
48•zdw•1d ago•5 comments

Doory – Open-Source Canva

https://github.com/shaongitbd/doory
170•acley•14h ago•65 comments

Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c64g1l5389kvo
510•Betelbuddy•5h ago•171 comments

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046
584•albertzeyer•19h ago•840 comments

Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

101•Ixander•1d ago•107 comments

Whatever became of holography? (2011)

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/whatever-became-of-holography
163•cainxinth•15h ago•85 comments

Passkeys are a trap

https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them
868•laurex•17h ago•463 comments

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c620r33plgppo
114•scrlk•3h ago•123 comments

I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google

https://simonkoeck.com/writeups/google-devsite-flask-session-pickle-rce
30•soeckly•8h ago•12 comments

Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage

https://tedhaley.ca/pensieve/
106•TedHaley•15h ago•34 comments

Illustration Beyond Proof

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/illustration-beyond-proof/
92•smilelamp•16h ago•14 comments

Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972)

https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ch1
134•rafael859•21h ago•37 comments

NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect

https://www.nyc.gov/main/click-to-cancel
559•gregsadetsky•21h ago•279 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
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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.