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AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13928
92•sbulaev•3h ago•44 comments

The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)

https://jsomers.net/e-coli-chemotaxis/
180•jsomers•1d ago•23 comments

GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
504•ilreb•13h ago•291 comments

Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/data-center-gpu/d-series.html
146•hurricanepootis•8h ago•64 comments

A Modern Web App in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
478•prophittcorey•13h ago•196 comments

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supe...
557•Zeekaas•17h ago•727 comments

Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/who-is-vfmaddrnd231pd/
162•pngmangi•8h ago•16 comments

The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/macos-dock-icons-over-time/
41•soheilpro•3h ago•19 comments

Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD

https://github.com/prabanta-dev/janas
92•khalidkhair•7h ago•31 comments

Making big downloads resumable in Firefox

https://lunarwatcher.codeberg.page/til/firefox/resumable-big-downloads.html
146•speckx•10h ago•52 comments

Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n

https://app.getsupers.com/auto-research
39•swesnow•1d ago•11 comments

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

https://github.com/h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr
312•djfergus•17h ago•88 comments

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
314•layer8•8h ago•258 comments

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

126•vishnukool•13h ago•84 comments

Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch

https://phreak.ing/
109•rickcarlino•8h ago•29 comments

Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppo
298•scrlk•17h ago•337 comments

Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/zx-spectrum-intro
98•zdw•10h ago•14 comments

Solar panels that plug into your wall

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/balcony-plug-in-solar-panels-renewable-energy
160•speckx•15h ago•144 comments

A look at OpenAI’s math that’s claimed computes faster Fourier transforms

https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms
82•mochomocha•3h ago•48 comments

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-orange-cats-finally-revealed-after-60-year-search
254•bookofjoe•2d ago•180 comments

Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later

https://taylor.town/kk-ai-2026
170•surprisetalk•14h ago•61 comments

The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)

https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/
237•gregsadetsky•2d ago•89 comments

Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195
518•whimblepop•11h ago•265 comments

Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP

https://github.com/andrewfader/blokkily
37•androsynth89•6h ago•17 comments

Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)

https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft
22•bherbruck•5h ago•1 comments

Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20

https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70751
136•arunc•6h ago•88 comments

Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser

https://brickbrag.com/
48•neuling•8h ago•26 comments

Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post

https://www.patreon.com/vihart/posts/vi-harts-big-171939430
6•signa11•27m ago•0 comments

Muse Wonder

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder
582•meetpateltech•13h ago•319 comments

China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/science/20260908-347742/
113•mushstory•3h ago•98 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.