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The coolest use for the Vision Pro

https://christianselig.com/2026/07/vision-pro-house/
145•robbiet480•1h ago•65 comments

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research
30•YeGoblynQueenne•37m ago•18 comments

Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

https://github.com/drumih/turbo-fieldfare
557•gitpusher42•6h ago•194 comments

Kimi K3-256k

https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models
263•monneyboi•2h ago•74 comments

Superlogical

https://www.superlogical.com/
430•yan•6h ago•273 comments

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline
223•artninja1988•1d ago•122 comments

Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gam...
214•JLO64•5h ago•87 comments

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring FDEs

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer
1•maciejSz•1h ago

Theo Conjecture solves 35-year-old math problem, finds a term no one predicted

https://firstprinciples.com/blog-article/ai-system-theo-conjecture-solves-35-year-old-math-conjec...
22•otalp•1h ago•5 comments

KOReader

https://koreader.rocks/
623•Cider9986•10h ago•199 comments

A Trampoline

https://dogdogfish.com/blog/2026/07/29/a-trampoline/
34•matthewsharpe3•1h ago•13 comments

Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)

https://prilik.com/blog/post/automating-ac-nyc/
64•austinallegro•3h ago•55 comments

Claude: Elevated errors across all models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/q2kg8n613kr3
222•gregsadetsky•2h ago•195 comments

A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-center-electricians-training.html
183•thm•7h ago•229 comments

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25398
272•spIrr•9h ago•170 comments

Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals

https://www.emergingtrajectories.com/lh/commodification-and-circularity/
39•cl42•3h ago•21 comments

Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word

https://enklypesalt.com/posts/context-collapse-part3-ai-worming-through-word/
313•Canopy9560•10h ago•234 comments

Staging patches with Git add -p

https://www.simonholywell.com/post/git-add-p/
10•ankitg12•4d ago•3 comments

Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10

https://cheapfoodmap.com/
89•jaep1•5h ago•96 comments

Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/
81•supermatou•5h ago•44 comments

Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money

https://usetokenless.com/
46•rohaga•6h ago•40 comments

Darktable

https://www.darktable.org/
262•siatko•9h ago•127 comments

How to not die by a thousand cuts or how to think about software quality (2023)

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/how-to-not-die-by-a-thousand-cuts/index.html
35•adityaathalye•3h ago•17 comments

How much can you delegate to agents?

https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/agent-autonomy
31•duck•2h ago•0 comments

The Rust on ESP Book

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/rust/book/
101•AlexeyBrin•4d ago•9 comments

Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used

https://alsterrunde.com/hamburgs-stadtpark-a-park-built-to-be-used/
95•mertbio•2d ago•25 comments

Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution

https://aistack.imec-int.com/blog/gpu-self-hosting
106•flifenstein•7h ago•37 comments

Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2580119-hunter-gatherers-introduced-fish-to-a-mountain-lake-...
125•stevenwoo•2d ago•93 comments

GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?

https://juliahub.com/blog/frontier-models-physical-ai-evaluation
77•mbauman•7h ago•18 comments

Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem

https://www.claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2026/07/shipping-godot-vr-and-porting-to-psvr2-a-partial-po...
101•ibobev•9h ago•11 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.