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De-Brainrot Vacations

https://devz.cl/posts/i-spent-my-vacations-de-brainrotting/
114•DanielVZ•53m ago•26 comments

Splash-free urinals for global sustainability and accessibility

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/8098745?login=false
60•u1hcw9nx•55m ago•28 comments

Keep Our Servers Running

https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this...
675•sonicrocketman•10h ago•165 comments

Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

https://mathathonchallenge.com/index.html
75•astroanax•4h ago•15 comments

Live map of public transport in Belgium

https://openbaarvervoerbelgie.be/
109•coinfused•4h ago•45 comments

Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/07/smartphone-makers-dont-bother-to-comply-with...
99•mdp2021•2h ago•40 comments

Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs

https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-08-23-speculative-decoding-amd-gpus
55•ankitg12•4h ago•17 comments

Impedance Matching (2017)

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27238
42•muti•4h ago•14 comments

LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-audio-with-screen-off-and-snooping-on-l...
504•chris_overseas•6h ago•281 comments

'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/nathan-fielder-surprise-film-telluride-elizabeth-holmes-123...
167•cianmm•4h ago•99 comments

Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

50•maxim-fin•2h ago•24 comments

I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32

https://didac.dev/blog/i-made-my-withings-scale-sync-to-home-assistant-without-the-cloud
28•sabatesduran•3d ago•9 comments

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

https://austinhenley.com/blog/python1024.html
265•azhenley•14h ago•95 comments

Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

191•imadtaieber•18h ago•176 comments

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2026/anubis-wasm/
307•xena•17h ago•148 comments

VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/09/vmware-migration-reduces-tottenham-hotspur...
38•joozio•2h ago•11 comments

Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/xteink-e-reader-best-technology-years/688539/
91•samizdis•3h ago•67 comments

Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?

198•jmpman•1d ago•118 comments

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117225539756835649
337•Cider9986•17h ago•222 comments

Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use

22•busymom0•3d ago•3 comments

Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric ferrocyanide electrolytes?

https://chemisting.com/2026/09/02/why-are-there-no-flow-batteries-with-symmetric-ferrocyanide-ele...
38•DamonHD•5d ago•23 comments

The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/09/04/the-jobs-apocalypse-is-postponed-an-ai...
6•MrBuddyCasino•3h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Think Turing Complete, but you write the circuits in TypeScript (WIP)

https://play.simten.dev
14•charlesfrisbee•4d ago•5 comments

Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post

https://gettogether.dev
87•nchudleigh•12h ago•43 comments

Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5b2673438e5fb39fcc4a3
819•zImPatrick•20h ago•350 comments

Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs

https://github.com/timgordontg/engrim
58•timgordontg•9h ago•23 comments

Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/mathematical-conservatory/
84•_alternator_•14h ago•96 comments

Programming is Art

https://orchidfiles.com/programming-is-art/
127•theorchid•5h ago•129 comments

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540
97•ur-whale•17h ago•31 comments

Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0301
46•cyb0rg0•11h ago•3 comments
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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.