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Cloudflare acquires Deno

https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare
835•ilreb•6h ago•460 comments

Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

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59•simplyalec•1h ago•8 comments

Our $445M Series D

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470•ahlCVA•6h ago•189 comments

Triple-A Minesweeper

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174•robin_reala•3h ago•51 comments

Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

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101•tosh•2h ago•76 comments

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587•splintersio•10h ago•193 comments

Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more

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40•piratebroadcast•8h ago•21 comments

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325•franze•8h ago•139 comments

Ideas aren't getting harder to find, anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward

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13•rafaelc•1h ago•1 comments

Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

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378•Anon84•9h ago•191 comments

M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

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76•gslin•1h ago•29 comments

A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad

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48•runtimewire•3h ago•59 comments

'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone

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71•vinhnx•5h ago•9 comments

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

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1028•jonotime•1d ago•921 comments

You might want to try being less creative

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27•bryantwolf•1h ago•12 comments

Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape

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142•ohjeez•4h ago•78 comments

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

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899•gmays•1d ago•174 comments

Training Text-to-Image Models Without a VAE

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I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

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865•soheilpro•2d ago•192 comments

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

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256•trakkstar•9h ago•163 comments

Yes, and

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686•Michelangelo11•1d ago•274 comments

Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making

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24•lisajaloza•1h ago•5 comments

MXC - a sandboxed code execution system

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152•nreece•13h ago•73 comments

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

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288•sohkamyung•16h ago•241 comments

Once: Cache CLI commands

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78•baquero•10h ago•36 comments

Programming Isn't Special

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html
130•ingve•12h ago•142 comments

Theranos.world

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535•kbyatnal•1d ago•193 comments

Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad

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36•hn_acker•1h ago•35 comments

Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

370•mariocesar•2d ago•594 comments

100+ reactions to 100+ solutions

https://proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/08/100-reactions-to-100-solutions/
34•jacobedawson•7h ago•26 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
•
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.