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Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
251•otobrglez•4h ago•91 comments

Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

https://github.com/timescale/pg_vectorsearch
27•jascha_eng•1h ago•4 comments

The Aaronson Oracle

https://aaronsonoracle.com/
5•routeroff•33m ago•3 comments

Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet

https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/
128•sighborg•3h ago•95 comments

Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)

https://blog.lorenzano.eu/pulsar-at-esug-2026/
34•mpweiher•2h ago•3 comments

Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2022)

https://ciechanow.ski/sound/
158•dverlaeckt80•2d ago•21 comments

TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material

https://swedenherald.com/article/tv4-postpones-the-challenge-until-2027-after-technical-failure-e...
13•tobr•2h ago•5 comments

Show HN: A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code

https://museumofages.org/w/vinci
19•micstradev•2h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

https://guitoro.com/
474•talccc•17h ago•124 comments

Same Job, Two Engines: InnoDB and Iceberg Internals

https://marcpaul.io/logs/same-job-two-engines-innodb-and-iceberg-internals/
32•marcbpaul•23h ago•2 comments

900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/10/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692.html
191•mdp2021•2d ago•28 comments

Smart people don't think others are stupid

https://sive.rs/ss
46•andsoitis•48m ago•24 comments

Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/who-is-planting-backdoors-in-ledger-crypto-wallets/
49•hacb•3h ago•51 comments

AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs

https://github.com/android/ndk/issues/2260
335•tharen•6h ago•158 comments

Gemini 4 Argon

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/
1352•737max•20h ago•950 comments

Felix Rieseberg Homepage

https://felixrieseberg.com/
221•rglover•8h ago•86 comments

The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/electricity-generation-per-person-in-the-united-kingdom-...
343•karakoram•21h ago•560 comments

Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord

https://strafe.chat/
57•brydencalaway•9h ago•39 comments

Recreational Programming

https://www.cphiri.dev/presentations/recreational-programming
226•jslakro•14h ago•95 comments

Kcgi – minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++

https://kristaps.bsd.lv/kcgi/
45•Bluestein•1d ago•27 comments

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-class-project-turns-into-fda-cleared-treatment-for-tremors-1002
227•zdw•1d ago•45 comments

Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ledger-confirms-hardware-wallet-spy-implant-behind...
735•thm•2d ago•461 comments

Show HN: How random are you?

https://lab.specr.net/rigged-draw/
165•vunderba•19h ago•87 comments

Arena Allocators in C

https://eliasebner.com/blog/guides/arena-allocators-in-c/
58•dimonomid•2d ago•22 comments

AI Laser Locking for Quantum Computers: How QuEra Automates It

https://www.quera.com/blog-posts/holding-the-light-teaching-an-ai-to-lock-and-tune-our-quantum-co...
11•EvgeniyZh•2h ago•3 comments

Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo

https://blog.plover.com/prog/git/history-proposal.html
52•evakhoury•1d ago•10 comments

FCSS 2: Utility CSS that reads like CSS

https://github.com/meerita/FCSS2
4•meerita•1d ago•8 comments

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control
811•Philpax•21h ago•861 comments

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
722•layer8•1d ago•562 comments

AlphaNIST

https://alpha-nist.github.io/
82•jasonjmcghee•14h ago•27 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.