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Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem
266•jlebar•2h ago•147 comments

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

https://collusion.wiki/
1284•moultano•9h ago•1038 comments

Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-i...
131•mywacaday•2h ago•33 comments

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/
44•iopapa•1h ago•27 comments

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

https://opentrailpaper.com
163•stingrae•3h ago•54 comments

Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch

https://rietta.com/blog/ruby-on-rails-cve-exploited-hours-after-patch/
37•rietta•1h ago•9 comments

An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy

https://quad9.net/
13•mooreds•45m ago•2 comments

The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite

https://blog.master.dev/react-now-rusted-all-the-way-out/
64•acusti•3h ago•12 comments

IBM Bob

https://bob.ibm.com/
185•artpar•8h ago•223 comments

deSEC – Free Secure DNS

https://desec.io/
81•gurjeet•5h ago•30 comments

Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge

https://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html
354•anitil•10h ago•81 comments

Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive

https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-exe...
218•speckx•4h ago•122 comments

Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/project-hydrafusion-frontier-quality-via-multi-model...
44•qainsights•4h ago•26 comments

Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs

https://github.com/gioblu/NPC-Forge/blob/main/docs/development.md
63•gioscarab•11h ago•23 comments

How to Create a Tor Exit Node

https://madpsy.uk/how-to-create-a-tor-exit-node/
6•Eridanus2•41m ago•0 comments

Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/technology/open-source-ai-anthropic-openai.html
217•aaraujo002•5h ago•198 comments

People that worked on the same idea for decades

https://nityasnotes.com/writing/decades/
34•sebg•1d ago•16 comments

Deadpan Photography: Enjoying the Pretence

https://photoni.st/index.php/2026/07/12/deadpan-photography-enjoying-the-pretence/
8•NaOH•3d ago•4 comments

Elevator of the Year: Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building

https://www.starelevator.com/projects/star-elevator-modernization-of-the-metropolis-trust-building
131•palashawas•3d ago•47 comments

Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4

https://github.com/anthropics/fermats-last-theorem
11•aaraujo002•2h ago•3 comments

Getting Started with AT Protocol

https://bnb.im/posts/atproto-essential-resources/
64•evakhoury•3d ago•22 comments

Ok, but does it scale?

https://spacetimedb.com/blog/how-does-spacetime-scale
98•theanonymousone•8h ago•61 comments

SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/subimage/jobs/NCTFgKK-founding-engineer
1•alexchantavy•8h ago

The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-two-abstractions-of-system-design.html
92•ubolonton_•2d ago•10 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
675•altertable•1d ago•221 comments

GPT-6 Astra

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
2128•kibae•1d ago•1934 comments

Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search

https://productrise.app/blog/google-ai-mode-prefers-more-expensive-products
349•DeepLogin•8h ago•70 comments

Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express'

https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/arrested-for-a-late-manuscript-seicho-matsumoto-tokyo-express
14•benbreen•1d ago•4 comments

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM86DBOqgPM
459•feb•3d ago•344 comments

Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region

https://github.com/hawshemi/lg-c5-webos25-region-change
53•hawshemi•8h ago•63 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
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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.