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Karpathy’s Pelican

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319
242•delichon•16h ago•186 comments

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

https://github.com/wie-project/kakehashi
106•vlad_kalinkin•3h ago•26 comments

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management

https://unattributed.cc/note-taking-and-personal-knowledge-management
24•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/29/developers-are-attached-to-tools-because-tools-encode-trust/
75•HieronymusBosch•4d ago•29 comments

Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark

https://github.com/graham33/nixos-dgx-spark
56•graham33•3h ago•13 comments

How the words we teach English language learners changed

https://pudding.cool/2026/07/essential-words/
160•c-oreills•4h ago•88 comments

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2026/06/20/twenty-years-of-risc-os-open
126•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•20 comments

Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

https://blog.juni-mp4.com/posts/42/rooting-the-tplink-tl841n-pt1/
59•mindracer•4h ago•7 comments

F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language

https://fstar-lang.org/
117•ducktective•7h ago•45 comments

Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network

https://uphillsecurity.com/articles/harvesting-ssh-credentials-insights-from-my-honeypot-network/
22•whatbackup•2h ago•14 comments

When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)

https://letterformarchive.org/news/milwaukee-transit-passes/
65•nate•2d ago•18 comments

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

https://meshdiff.com/
152•projscope•8h ago•15 comments

EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/02/eu-rules-on-ai-models-become-enforceable-whats-goin...
20•devonnull•44m ago•8 comments

Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2

https://16-bits.org/ft2.php
94•andsoitis•4d ago•30 comments

My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw."

https://frogs.vaguespac.es/
8•thebigship•42m ago•0 comments

Folding Paper Globes

https://foldingglobes.com/globes
117•dango2506•4d ago•27 comments

SwiftUI After 7 Years

https://ykvm.com/2026/07/swiftui-a-story-of-mediocrity/
92•mpweiher•1h ago•54 comments

German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe

https://www.ft.com/content/e345d51f-11f7-4d4d-8f09-86dd3a225597
18•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•2 comments

Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/08/02/europe-ev-sales-report-bevs-jump-50-reach-26-market-share/
13•01-_-•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

https://getbor.dev/blog/2026-08-02-bor-v080-release/
152•eniac111•11h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

https://fuselang.org
87•the_unproven•9h ago•23 comments

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/great-question/jobs/YutDxyf-senior-demand-generation-manager
1•nedwin•8h ago

'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout

https://www.ft.com/content/06ec1b03-d4af-40cf-b12a-4ba5a410f6d2
26•JumpCrisscross•1h ago•4 comments

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-notoria/
112•jruohonen•10h ago•26 comments

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html
334•Hixon10•18h ago•168 comments

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

https://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox
304•tomilan•18h ago•98 comments

Holocloth

https://holocloth.vercel.app
151•ingve•2d ago•26 comments

Turtle-inspired interactive Python project

https://www.codembark.com/projects/fv20lz9map/spider-web-drawing
13•camdenreslink•5d ago•3 comments

Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/07/31/all-hands-2026-retrospective/
83•dcminter•9h ago•41 comments

Norway Salmon

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/how-norway-s-salmon-industry-became-a-global-behemoth/1069...
111•CHB0403085482•5d ago•68 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.