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Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers

https://github.com/tywr/Nordwand-Mono
235•noriax86•1d ago•71 comments

OpenBSD 8.0

https://www.openbsd.org/80.html
283•privong•7h ago•84 comments

WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

https://redact.dev/blog/whatsapp-help-pages-hidden-ai-instructions
423•ds•10h ago•115 comments

Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58290-8
53•Kaibeezy•1d ago•2 comments

DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-banning-chinese-ai-deepseek-government-agency-it-systems-20...
240•cmrdporcupine•17h ago•206 comments

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f
464•jtg•16h ago•198 comments

France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

https://ipinfo.io/blog/france-fridges-hack
168•emot•9h ago•148 comments

MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki
17•theanonymousone•2h ago•0 comments

Weball: Play Katamari on Websites

https://www.funwithcomputervision.com/weball/
203•croes•1d ago•16 comments

Fizzpoker – No-login Online Poker with friends

https://www.fizzpoker.com
5•ulnn•36m ago•2 comments

Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/82345
96•mendym•6h ago•34 comments

An ad-free Android TV

https://cretezy.com/2026/ad-free-android-tv
207•CraftThatBlock•11h ago•64 comments

I built a drone with only one motor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndftcft6XhU
539•hakonjdjohnsen•1d ago•110 comments

Wine ported to OpenBSD

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175
566•iamnothere•19h ago•193 comments

It's still ok to enjoy programming

https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming
593•goostavos•2d ago•517 comments

Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-first-drone-evacuation-wounded-soldier-frontlines-h...
284•yzydserd•18h ago•213 comments

Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick

https://k.sosnierz.me/08-11-24/
14•birdculture•2d ago•2 comments

How abliterated models can get you pwned

https://projectdiscovery.io/research/how-abliterated-models-can-get-you-pwned
126•chatmasta•10h ago•74 comments

OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117407035545900963
155•doener•12h ago•34 comments

Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware

https://heymaxwell.ai/
65•laginimaineb•19h ago•36 comments

RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNm4zyUtWj0
196•evakhoury•2d ago•68 comments

Starcraft: Ashfall

https://starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev/
456•debo_•1d ago•141 comments

Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

443•rzk•22h ago•588 comments

One Hash Bloom Filters

https://calabro.io/ohbf
102•jcalabro•12h ago•11 comments

How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-fungi-keep-the-planet-healthy-20261015/
52•marojejian•2d ago•9 comments

Porting video games to VHS

https://gardinerbryant.com/what-if-video-games-came-on-vhs/
39•Kate0CoolLibby•2d ago•25 comments

Evidence (YC S21) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://evidence.dev/jobs
1•hughess•16h ago

Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs

https://deathplanswitch.com/
66•romeo19361•4h ago•48 comments

Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account

https://josie.lol/blog/linux-rtx-spark
234•pfeifferj•12h ago•120 comments

Agentic Monitoring

https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2026/10/19/Agentic-Monitoring/
99•bcongdon•18h ago•17 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.