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Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets/issues/398
31•babuskov•47m ago•6 comments

Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/cloned-polo-horses
29•gscott•1h ago•10 comments

Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14470
42•Anon84•2h ago•8 comments

Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/
117•pramodbiligiri•1d ago•66 comments

Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts

https://ntsc.rs/
294•gregsadetsky•8h ago•70 comments

Public Domain Image Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/
57•davidbarker•3h ago•10 comments

Introducing Boron Buckyballs: Theory that B80 cages can’t be made is disproved

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52•crescit_eundo•2d ago•9 comments

Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser

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17•sauravrao637•1h ago•1 comments

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15•gmays•3d ago•0 comments

An Ohio Valley 100k-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight – Radio World

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74•pkaeding•2h ago•58 comments

Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises

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9•sakuraiben•1h ago•0 comments

Moving beyond fork() + exec()

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/
272•jwilk•13h ago•269 comments

Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/meta-confirms-thousands-of-instagram-accounts-were-hacked-by-abus...
478•speckx•9h ago•169 comments

Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF

https://su3.io/posts/introducing-zeroserve
205•losfair•13h ago•53 comments

Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust

https://symbolica.io/posts/symbolica_2_0_release/
10•mmastrac•1d ago•0 comments

Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2062880075117113739
251•tosh•15h ago•444 comments

Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/
75•rohanucla•8h ago•33 comments

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity...
178•toephu2•1d ago•761 comments

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17•si_164•3h ago•9 comments

Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)

https://pokeemerald.com/
290•tripplyons•16h ago•83 comments

The Russian who invented semiconductors 25 years before the USA

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14•johncole•1h ago•3 comments

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

573•andrehacker•2d ago•964 comments

How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time

https://hyperallergic.com/how-liminalism-became-the-defining-aesthetic-of-our-time/
6•zeech•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Infinite canvas notes in the non-Euclidean Poincaré disk

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132•uonr•4d ago•23 comments

Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
22•kristianp•2d ago•7 comments

Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

https://mashable.com/tech/motorola-wifi-routers-stop-working-motosync-plus-app-down
89•thisislife2•13h ago•37 comments

You Can Run

https://magazine.atavist.com/2026/mccann-cocaine-fugitives
110•bryanrasmussen•12h ago•60 comments

Computex 2026: Are We Heading for the Agentic PC Era Yet?

https://www.eetimes.com/computex-2026-are-we-heading-for-the-agentic-pc-era-yet/
29•rbanffy•7h ago•30 comments

The new bibliomaniacs

https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-new-bibliomaniacs/
72•RickJWagner•16h ago•66 comments

Benchmarks in Leipzig

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05818
125•root-parent•14h ago•44 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
•
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.