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DeepSeek Harness

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness
326•bjin•3h ago•148 comments

Gloomberb

https://gloom.sh/
170•rbanffy•2h ago•61 comments

Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

https://tradersunion.com/news/central-banks/show/2973571-deutsche-bank-becomes/
266•Markoff•4h ago•292 comments

Spaghettifying DRAM

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts
159•matt_d•1h ago•37 comments

Kubernetes on Oxide: How Customer Needs Shaped Our Integrations

https://oxide.computer/blog/kubernetes-on-oxide
44•stevehipwell•1h ago•6 comments

I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10

https://alexmorleyfinch.github.io/marlin/history/v1/article/the_birth.html
43•dreamforever•2h ago•26 comments

Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5

https://github.com/fellowgeek/mcp-memory
33•pcbmaker20•2h ago•14 comments

We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images

https://www.echo.ai/blog/echo-xnanoclaw-under-the-hood
23•omrimaya•1h ago•7 comments

Heart Aerospace Completes First Flight of Largest Electric Aircraft

https://www.heartaerospace.com/newsroom/heart-aerospace-completes-first-flight-of-world-s-largest...
76•chha•2h ago•57 comments

Flock Safety changes system defaults in response to criticisms

https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-guardrails-address-lpr-privacy-concerns-and-police-transpa...
18•LazyMans•1h ago•18 comments

Time to Move On: Querying Without Nulls and Bags

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10863
30•Jimmc414•2h ago•4 comments

Picking berries is my meditation

https://www.tsoon.com/posts/picking-berries-meditation/
81•mooreds•4d ago•58 comments

I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-built-a-515-page-dossier-on-me-it-says-ill-never-leave/
57•thehoff•1h ago•48 comments

ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform)

https://atg.science/careers
1•dkobran•4h ago

ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux

https://openai.com/codex/
354•allanrbo•11h ago•247 comments

Graduate Student Proves a Quantum Uncertainty Principle for Fractals

https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-proves-the-fractal-uncertainty-principle-20260812/
14•bookofjoe•1h ago•0 comments

Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia

https://pxl-th.github.io/blog/better-gs-julia/
64•pxl-th•4d ago•6 comments

The mathematical physics of rainbows and glories (2001) [pdf]

https://tlakoba.w3.uvm.edu/AppliedUGMath/auxpaper_rainbow_glory_review.pdf
7•num42•2d ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent

https://www.codewithbullet.com
9•adi1•7h ago•4 comments

Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

https://www.netlify.com/blog/one-prompt-11-models-very-different-results/
94•toddmorey•3h ago•48 comments

The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich (2021)

https://jdh.hamkins.org/the-lattice-of-sets-of-natural-numbers-is-rich/
89•benmandrew•3d ago•18 comments

Nine PBS could lose 70 years of archives after cloud vendor goes defunct

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/nine-pbs-loses-access-to-70-years-of-data-aft...
78•vinayakborkar•2h ago•40 comments

Delta

https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta
633•khy•21h ago•232 comments

Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

https://www.seangoedecke.com/text-ai-watermarks/
19•pseudolus•1h ago•15 comments

Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful

https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Impressions/PrincipiaMathematica.html
243•matt_d•16h ago•130 comments

DeepSeek API Pricing Update

https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2087864589895798968
80•mfiguiere•3h ago•29 comments

Ordinary Abundance

https://ordinaryabundance.com/
9•yen223•2h ago•0 comments

Build a Stratum 1 PTP Grandmaster on a Budget

https://opscode.io/posts/ptp-grandmaster-cm4-sr1723u10/
7•malcolmfrazier•2h ago•1 comments

What garbage collection actually costs

https://shivanshuag.com/blog/what-garbage-collection-actually-costs/
17•shivanshuag•3d ago•32 comments

Antiqua–Fraktur dispute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_dispute
136•buzzy_hacker•3d ago•57 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
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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.