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Qwen 3.8 27B

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
579•erdaltoprak•5h ago•381 comments

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce97mm3vvemo
349•tcp_handshaker•3h ago•244 comments

Seven books I keep close because I love them

https://blog.plover.com/2026/08/02/
213•surprisetalk•4h ago•94 comments

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/
132•rustdesk•3h ago•53 comments

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/
138•u1hcw9nx•4h ago•88 comments

Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

https://mun-logadan.github.io/why-does-opus-5-feel-worse/
582•numeri•9h ago•545 comments

GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3
973•pella•14h ago•486 comments

Introducing Toast 1

https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/toast-1
134•mplappert•4h ago•41 comments

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

https://claude.com/blog/maximizing-the-value-of-your-claude-code-sessions
80•twapi•3h ago•53 comments

AI by Hand

https://www.byhand.ai/
90•sans_souse•4h ago•10 comments

New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11158
4•surprisetalk•20m ago•0 comments

Ultraviolet Bird Photography

https://uvbirds.com/
62•EndXA•1w ago•9 comments

How Claude's text watermarking works

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark
16•surprisetalk•46m ago•8 comments

I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

https://heyjonny.dev/posts/rss-to-eink-newspaper/
86•speckx•5h ago•38 comments

Open WireGuard Endpoints

https://proxylity.com/articles/now-available-open-wireguard-endpoints-and-async-lambda.html
6•mlhpdx•56m ago•0 comments

Z.ai Security Disclosure

https://cvd.z.ai
21•Alifatisk•39m ago•3 comments

Every Fucking Website (2020)

https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/
627•doubletwoyou•5h ago•362 comments

Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal

https://github.com/lajosdeme/mole
11•lajosdeme•1h ago•3 comments

Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS – Pascal for Small Machines

http://pascal.hansotten.com/delphi/turbo-pascal-on-cpm-msx-dos-and-ms-dos/
31•rbanffy•2d ago•6 comments

Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua

https://luacad.ad-si.com
45•adius•3h ago•8 comments

DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260813/
225•fagnerbrack•10h ago•119 comments

Don't classify, hallucinate

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/08/10/hypothetical-classifications
185•softwaredoug•3d ago•76 comments

Forbidden City Cabbage

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/style/jadeite-cabbage-taiwan-forbidden-city-curio-hnk-intl
35•dude250711•2d ago•4 comments

France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s

https://www.reuters.com/world/frances-top-court-rules-social-media-ban-curtails-freedom-expressio...
152•BlueBerry2001•3h ago•97 comments

The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-temu-fication-of-software-digital-goods-services/
105•surprisetalk•8h ago•75 comments

In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/australia-home-batteries
270•speckx•5h ago•202 comments

Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial

http://marc-b-reynolds.github.io/math/2026/08/10/IntDivByFP.html
17•matt_d•3d ago•8 comments

A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12700
14•Jimmc414•3h ago•0 comments

High-Performance Array-Backed LRU Hash Table

https://github.com/adanil-code/LRUHashTable
3•adanil_•50m ago•0 comments

AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph

https://run.cosmograph.app/public/ca9fd1ad-fe83-4238-8b69-b707c633aef0
40•bj-rn•5h ago•6 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.