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Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France

https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/
416•farrokhi•3h ago•146 comments

eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business
619•bo0tzz•4h ago•465 comments

Show HN: Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

https://github.com/oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel
123•aghuang•2h ago•46 comments

What's Getting Pwned

https://pwn.watch/
201•mrkd•3h ago•111 comments

Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany

https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-13.html
51•dewey•1h ago•20 comments

What Is Gridifcation

https://musicalform.substack.com/p/what-is-gridifcation
270•gumby•3d ago•122 comments

Jailbreaking the Switch 2

https://pepsipu.com/blog/2026-10-switch2-jailbreak-ns2jb/
529•ledoge•9h ago•197 comments

Dungeon Generation in the Gnomish Mines of NetHack

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2026/10/18/dungeon-generation-in-the-gnomish-mines-of-nethack/
52•ibobev•3d ago•6 comments

Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest

https://www.techspot.com/news/114100-google-cleared-300-hectares-finnish-forest-data-center.html
185•wetwater•2h ago•117 comments

Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms

https://globus.software/blog/2026/10/16/cutting-map-polygons/
164•molind•8h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals

https://uberblok.storagebits.workers.dev/
27•storagebits•1d ago•2 comments

The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums

https://lastmuseum.com/
62•surprisetalk•5h ago•21 comments

MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/gambling-ads-restrictions-canada-9.7388888
109•Teever•3h ago•37 comments

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

https://simedw.com/2026/10/21/world-model-terminal/
439•alphax314•15h ago•136 comments

VMMouse for NT 3.x: QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver

https://github.com/rhargreaves/vmmouse-nt3
33•kiyouta•3d ago•5 comments

Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video]

https://yle.fi/t/18-332106/fi
51•NaOH•3d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Dovepass – can I legally fly a drone along this exact path in SF?

https://dovepass.com
25•nimitmehra•2d ago•5 comments

Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in "proof point" test

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/startup-taps-underwater-volcano-as-energy-source-in-proof...
92•wffurr•2d ago•38 comments

The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]

https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn.pdf
291•craigcitro•15h ago•249 comments

Crystal 1.22

https://crystal-lang.org/2026/10/12/1.22.0-released/
137•ksec•4h ago•63 comments

Security Disclosure

https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st
560•passenger•20h ago•324 comments

A farewell to Arc browser

https://arc.net/
90•suhdonghwi•1h ago•77 comments

Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-threat-intelligence-identifies-php2shell-exploitatio...
220•cubefox•6h ago•74 comments

Claude Duet

https://claude.com/product/claude-duet
523•kuberwastaken•22h ago•484 comments

Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LKML-New-Trend-Vulnerabilities
221•mrkn1•6h ago•71 comments

Eigenmoon: linear algebra puzzles by moonlight

https://eigenmoon.vercel.app/
55•jessicarumbelow•2d ago•15 comments

No more icons in every menu by default

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icons-in-every-menu/
449•riffraff•2d ago•254 comments

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

https://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/
582•abhisek•1d ago•190 comments

Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea

https://rumple.github.io/blog/2026/10/20/asking-llm-for-confidence.html
191•jimauthors•1d ago•97 comments

The painter behind Manhattan’s Gilded Age interiors

https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-unknown-painter-behind-manhattans-gilded-age-interiors/
45•hoffmannesque•1d ago•4 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.