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iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/major-updates-for-apples-software-platforms-are-now-availa...
482•throw0101d•11h ago•523 comments

4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls

https://arkeonews.net/4400-year-old-tomb-of-an-egyptian-judge-found-at-saqqara-with-colors-still-...
67•arunbahl•2d ago•8 comments

Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pion
335•lukaspetersson•11h ago•376 comments

Charts built for Chat

https://dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-built-for-chat/
157•thingsilearned•7h ago•49 comments

Every invoice in Brazil's economy runs on SOAP 1.2. We mapped it all

https://github.com/stoix-dev/sefaz-webservices-postman
31•lestx•2d ago•9 comments

Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS

https://github.com/JamesRyanATX/fcbnerd
52•fretlessjazz•5h ago•9 comments

Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% with Memoization (Not AI Gen)

https://nathannaveen.dev/posts/dropping-ebpf-cpu-cost-by-90/
73•nathannaveen•14h ago•19 comments

XCancel service is suspended until further notice

https://xcancel.com/#
538•gaganyaan•19h ago•818 comments

OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/
410•gregnavis•16h ago•335 comments

Compressing a Flag to 11 Bits

https://read.vantezzen.io/miniflags
99•bennett_dev•2d ago•43 comments

Distributed Systems Classics (2017)

https://nvartolomei.com/dist-sys-classics/
257•grep_it•12h ago•58 comments

Principles for Fast Tokio Applications

https://dial9-rs.github.io/blog/principles-for-fast-tokio-applications/
184•carllerche•13h ago•45 comments

Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model

https://poltora.dev/redis
20•poltora•2d ago•4 comments

Steam Frame starts at $1059

https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steamframe
583•bsimpson•11h ago•437 comments

How my e-reader lost its stripes

https://www.serpentine.com/posts/2026/x3-stripes/
174•simonmic•12h ago•28 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

312•david927•1d ago•971 comments

Cloudflare AKE cuts origin HelloRetryRequests from 52% to 3.7%

https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatic-key-exchange-for-origins/
100•iamsyr•11h ago•26 comments

Optimizing a Spin-Lock

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/optimizing-a-spin-lock/
53•signa11•2d ago•26 comments

People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination

https://dailyneuron.com/aphantasia-mental-imagery-brain-network/
122•giuliomagnifico•15h ago•191 comments

Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/14/ex-ftc-boss-khan-urges-uncle-sam-to-break-out-th...
96•throwworhtthrow•4h ago•49 comments

OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm

https://github.com/enactic/OpenArm
3•Lwrless•1d ago•0 comments

Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding

https://pub.sakana.ai/pc-alm/
62•guld•10h ago•13 comments

A Beginning for Mathematics

https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/13/a-beginning-for-mathematics/
185•robinhouston•13h ago•107 comments

Why don't machine learning research agents overfit?

https://www.amazon.science/blog/why-dont-machine-learning-research-agents-overfit
115•Betelbuddy•12h ago•65 comments

Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/26-1444/26-1444-2026-08-04.html
192•neom•7h ago•194 comments

Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-rust-coreutils-complete
117•theanonymousone•15h ago•100 comments

Cua (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Technical GTM Lead

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cua/jobs/1IWEKVH-founding-technical-gtm-lead
1•frabonacci•11h ago

The biggest dinosaurs couldn't sit on their eggs

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/titanosaur-eggs-9.7336841
26•BiraIgnacio•1d ago•9 comments

Dario, Please

https://pop.rdi.sh/dario-please/
369•0x5FC3•14h ago•177 comments

Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama

https://patrickmccanna.net/notes-on-migrating-large-prompts-away-from-anthropic-openai-to-self-ho...
124•0o_MrPatrick_o0•15h ago•68 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.