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Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro
478•Jowsey•3h ago•276 comments

Apple Music 404 Not Found

https://music.apple.com/this-url-doesnt-exist
247•frizlab•8h ago•85 comments

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone
554•pavel_lishin•4h ago•373 comments

Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3-1-pro
99•theanonymousone•2h ago•19 comments

Why Do AI Models Tell Left-Wing Voters to Support the Communist Party?

https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/voters-increasingly-use-ai-political-advisor-new-study-shows-risks
14•caaqil•28m ago•4 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1088•sohkamyung•21h ago•211 comments

The Real Kevin Bacon

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
155•xnx•3d ago•44 comments

Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built

https://block.xyz/dessa
21•dsr12•1h ago•4 comments

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/canadians-are-running-out-time-oppose-dangerous-c-22-survei...
197•hn_acker•21h ago•79 comments

How is music possible

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/music
66•rafaelc•3h ago•43 comments

UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does

https://alexsci.com/blog/uuidv7-is-weird/
74•ibobev•3h ago•62 comments

Reforming English Spelling

https://blog.oup.com/2026/10/reforming-english-spelling/
13•jruohonen•4h ago•20 comments

I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen

https://twitter.com/robbietilton/status/2111936458923851923
41•scrambled•2h ago•9 comments

The Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06

https://isaacmarovitz.com/posts/sonic-06/
50•ibobev•3h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Impossible Machines: declaratively program the physical world

https://www.impossiblemachines.xyz
42•bhaprayan•20h ago•10 comments

LISP Comes of Age (1980)

https://microship.com/lisp-comes-of-age/
44•so-cal-schemer•1d ago•14 comments

Time Nuts (2005)

http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm
22•jacquesm•3h ago•19 comments

Total Historian

https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/total-historian/
18•benbreen•4h ago•3 comments

Animations for System Builders

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/10/23/animations.html
14•KraftyOne•3h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web

https://swurf.org/
30•webtjb096•13h ago•15 comments

Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

527•ex-aws-dude•23h ago•579 comments

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html
346•xiaoyu2006•19h ago•232 comments

Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?

https://david.lequin.dev/blog/bi-software-is-dead/
71•skadamat•3h ago•48 comments

Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy

https://bottlecapai.com/post/thinkingcap-gemma-4-26b/
73•armcat•5h ago•11 comments

Job loss and cortisone mania

https://tilschuenemann.de/job-loss-cortisone-mania
147•speckx•10h ago•83 comments

Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key

https://github.com/dsmurrell/onkey
192•dsmurrell•1d ago•82 comments

The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01092
189•martincsweiss•1d ago•77 comments

How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WHEQps5PK8LrrcTAb/how-does-fable-5-1-hide-messages-in-images
188•gmays•22h ago•68 comments

We have traits at home

https://www.axelmagn.com/blog/202610-zig-traits/
38•Ygg2•21h ago•14 comments

WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal

https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/
600•alphax314•1d ago•181 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.