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An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why

https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-ai-agent-emailed-hundreds-researchers-help-it-t...
31•sbulaev•1h ago•37 comments

Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art

https://www.newgrounds.com/
244•azhenley•10h ago•65 comments

GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-01-new-dashboard-experience-now-the-default/
6•vanyauhalin•1h ago•3 comments

Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility
644•hn_acker•1d ago•296 comments

Apple Pass Designer

https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/
438•soheilpro•16h ago•272 comments

Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7648198/2026/10/01/mike-tomlin-minecraft-nfl-coach/
479•CoryOndrejka•1d ago•109 comments

Cloudflare OHTTP gateway

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-cloudflare-ohttp-gateway/
90•est•7h ago•22 comments

An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows

https://blog.kagi.com/update-orion-linux-windows
61•pentagrama•6h ago•28 comments

A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f
296•mariuz•1d ago•57 comments

The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)

https://yuka.dev/blog-2026-10-02-linux-m4.html
222•signa11•20h ago•149 comments

cp: -r or -R?

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-30/0/POSTING-en.html
9•zdw•2d ago•1 comments

Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/loss-of-cell-identity-drives-human
264•bookofjoe•1d ago•84 comments

Barcodes are about to go extinct

https://thehustle.co/originals/why-barcodes-are-about-to-go-extinct
50•rmason•14h ago•78 comments

From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4

https://dwarfstar.sh/
254•fibo•17h ago•68 comments

Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q
246•usernomdeguerre•1d ago•76 comments

FLUX 3 Image

https://bfl.ai/models/flux-3-image
354•minimaxir•1d ago•76 comments

Extra Big Ass Intelligence

https://www.extrabigassintelligence.com/
312•34679•7h ago•67 comments

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/ai-finally-beat-the-best-stratego-player-in-history-and-d...
221•PaulHoule•20h ago•109 comments

Muse Gadgets

https://gadgets.muse.ai
202•anant•15h ago•88 comments

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=p6zjojqw
208•notfirstpost•15h ago•141 comments

One month coding with GLM 5.3 Flash

https://wagtail.org/blog/one-month-on-glm-53-flash/
166•ThibWeb•19h ago•125 comments

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

https://stillwet.art/
283•alstonite•1d ago•90 comments

The Nintendo 64 Partner-N64 Development Kit

https://www.behindthecode.ca/partner-n64pc-dev-kit/
45•paulgerhardt•16h ago•5 comments

Sites in ChatGPT

https://chatgpt.com/features/sites/
281•polvi•1d ago•261 comments

The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/math/1973-halmos.pdf
286•suopspaces•21h ago•150 comments

Venice’s failed war against Constantinople led to the first bond market

https://bigthink.com/books/a-fabulous-debt/
125•RickJWagner•21h ago•37 comments

Billions of triangles redux

https://zeux.io/2026/09/30/billions-of-triangles-redux/
46•ibobev•2d ago•0 comments

More like SC-Forth-thousand, am I right?

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2026/10/01/rc2026-10-sg1000-forth-port.html
10•stevekemp•1d ago•1 comments

OKI Develops 124-Layer PCB Technology

https://www.oki.com/global/press/2025/z25006e.html
35•luu•1d ago•19 comments

To grieve, or not to grieve?

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/to-grieve-or-not-to-grieve/
143•stabbles•2d ago•124 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.