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Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505

https://loeffelholz-codex.org/en/
82•edwardog•2h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Farol – a risk map of a pull request for the person who approves it

https://github.com/winnin/farol
24•ericholiveira•1h ago•16 comments

fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2
97•tosh•3h ago•31 comments

We should be more ambitious with the software we build

https://danluu.com/ambitious/
562•ltratt•17h ago•523 comments

R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1xelcuf/your_tokens_arent_valuable_no_more_ai
48•schleck8•1h ago•26 comments

Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/how-we-deploy-trillion-parameter-frontier-models-on-cerebras
256•gmays•13h ago•85 comments

How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

https://kottke.org/26/10/how-japanese-dried-bonito-is-made
117•bookofjoe•3d ago•31 comments

The Goose Programming Language

https://aardappel.github.io/goose/
486•bobbydigitales•20h ago•297 comments

Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you

https://twitter.com/mike64_t/status/2114150399406202896
188•mashally•4h ago•121 comments

US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect

https://theconversation.com/us-inequality-is-getting-worse-in-ways-you-might-not-expect-294075
29•JKCalhoun•1h ago•25 comments

Reverse engineer of PC-98 Touhou games retires

https://rec98.nmlgc.net/blog/2026-10-05
36•mimasama•2d ago•27 comments

The Lego group reveals collaboration with Daft Punk

https://www.lego.com/en-us/categories/adults-welcome/article/daft-punk
37•pieterr•2h ago•32 comments

Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI

https://www.techspot.com/news/114171-nikon-photography-contest-winner-loses-title-after-scientist...
68•thunderbong•5h ago•16 comments

SpeedCrunch 1.1

https://www.speedcrunch.org/
184•LordNibbler•19h ago•37 comments

Small Programs and Languages

https://ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small
145•andsoitis•17h ago•20 comments

Did it just build.. a clock?

https://theclock.online/
14•DirkJanMeijer•3d ago•14 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1628•sohkamyung•2d ago•251 comments

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
353•theanonymousone•1d ago•171 comments

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
345•rramadass•1d ago•267 comments

America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?

https://www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the-fall-of-the-creative-class
423•gnabgib•15h ago•453 comments

I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers

https://rootkitlabs.com/2026/10/06/i-built-a-stereo-vision-board-for-hardware-hackers/
105•machinehum•4d ago•17 comments

Why Gopher in 2026?

https://gopher.muffinlabs.com/sdf.org/users/nervtoji/phlog/001.txt
105•andsoitis•15h ago•57 comments

FreeDNS

https://freedns.afraid.org/
322•esher•23h ago•85 comments

The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)

https://ratfactor.com/cards/limitations
99•andsoitis•17h ago•33 comments

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock
295•fragebogen•1d ago•73 comments

Social dynamics of toxic metal industry in medieval Europe

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/social-dynamics-of-toxic-metal-industry...
68•XzetaU8•4d ago•34 comments

Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/neural-chip-decodes-interactions-between-brain-r-2/
123•giuliomagnifico•23h ago•45 comments

Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless

https://twitter.com/boneGPT/status/2114035719853265264
15•MrBuddyCasino•2h ago•4 comments

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/
330•mooreds•3d ago•98 comments

A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021)

https://aresluna.org/this-is-a-story-of-a-figma-bug/
50•jllyhill•3d ago•5 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.