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507 Mechanical Movements

https://507movements.com/
303•helloplanets•3h ago•39 comments

Small Models Have Arrived

https://calv.info/small-models-have-arrived
142•tosh•2h ago•47 comments

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache

https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/
55•TangerineDream•46m ago•17 comments

Microduck

https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/
341•robotswantdata•7h ago•132 comments

Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days

https://blog.chrislewis.au/decompiling-a-nintendo-64-game-in-84-days/
62•knackers•3h ago•17 comments

Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode

https://rahuljuliato.com/posts/markdown-ts-mode-emacs-31
113•RahulMJ•4h ago•44 comments

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Product and AI Engineers

https://www.bild.ai/jobs
1•rooppal•1h ago

Launching Route 53 Files

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-08-27-Launching-Route-53-Files.html
53•louis-paul•3h ago•18 comments

Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots

24•Salem_robotics•2h ago•16 comments

The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-...
41•nanna•1d ago•290 comments

Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6zwgg9y8go
58•vinni2•31m ago•19 comments

Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

https://github.com/kelviq/tare
36•sachinneravath•1h ago•17 comments

Yayoi Kusama has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v4k0re3vwo
105•herbertl•2h ago•11 comments

The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall

https://www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser-period-why-the-ai-boom
65•gtzi•3h ago•57 comments

Why HPSC Is a Big Deal for Space Exploration

https://www.windriver.com/blog/Why-HPSC-Is-a-Big-Deal-for-Space-Exploration
15•mooreds•2h ago•4 comments

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
73•pbui•4h ago•49 comments

A curmudgeon tries a language server

https://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server
82•crescit_eundo•1d ago•53 comments

We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer

https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/24290
4•dclavijo•11m ago•1 comments

Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-story-of-suica
65•zdw•2h ago•47 comments

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8
1721•mfiguiere•16h ago•803 comments

Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds into food

https://acs.digitellinc.com/live/37/session/586399
21•ehwa37•2h ago•16 comments

Aphantasia Beginner's Guide

https://aphantasia.com/guide
53•ksec•4h ago•115 comments

Trade (and Tariffs)

https://xkcd.com/3290/
308•throw0101d•4h ago•114 comments

Grok Bot for Linux: Unofficial port of the official app (open source)

https://github.com/jakob-bu/grok-bot-linux-unofficial
23•j-bu•1h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

https://github.com/ahmadpiran/restoredrill
30•ahmadpiran•3h ago•9 comments

Show HN: A lightweight, stateless database for agent memory

https://polign.com/blog-edge-agent-memory
11•anuptalwalkar•1d ago•4 comments

Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good?

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/hollywoods-video-game-era-is-here
24•NomNew•3h ago•39 comments

Show HN: See fiber breaks linked to a map

https://react-networks-lib.rackout.net/otdr-strip
10•matt-p•1h ago•0 comments

Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow

https://twitter.com/LocumRex/status/2092993787605717176
48•lorecore•1h ago•12 comments

Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens

https://forgeeks.net/nvidia-673-billion-ai-growth-forecast/
82•kuuuzya•3h ago•64 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.