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Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

https://blog.nns.ee/2026/06/03/katana-badusb/
71•xx_ns•54m ago•17 comments

Every Byte Matters

https://fzakaria.com/2026/06/01/every-byte-matters
33•ingve•43m ago•4 comments

Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2

https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/2026-06-01-edsger.html
88•nathell•16h ago•17 comments

1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug

https://blog.ammaraskar.com/github-token-stealing/
472•ammar2•20h ago•68 comments

Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground

https://www.science.org/content/article/mathematicians-issue-warning-ai-rapidly-gains-ground
31•pseudolus•1h ago•26 comments

Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)

https://github.com/s-macke/Test-Drive-3-Maps
122•s-macke•3d ago•32 comments

Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux

https://github.com/c0dejedi/nbd-vram
345•tanelpoder•12h ago•90 comments

MAI-Code-1-Flash

https://microsoft.ai/news/introducingmai-code-1-flash/
486•EvanZhouDev•17h ago•218 comments

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds

https://research.ligo.bio/posts/unreasonable-redundancy-of-natural-protein-folds/
107•ray__•7h ago•29 comments

AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study

https://law.stanford.edu/press/ai-outperforms-law-professors-in-stanford-law-study/
281•berlianta•12h ago•223 comments

PlayStation Architecture

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation/
9•gregsadetsky•1h ago•0 comments

OpenRidingController – DIY horse riding controller for the PC

https://github.com/Squalius-cephalus/OpenRidingController
13•zdw•3d ago•5 comments

Jonathan Franzen on Talent, Theatre, and His Next Novel

https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/jonathan-franzen-06-08-26
13•samclemens•1d ago•1 comments

Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-1-0-release/137296
151•fons-p•12h ago•17 comments

CT scans of BYD car parts

https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/byd
406•viasfo•15h ago•254 comments

My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month

https://www.acdw.net/clojure/
232•speckx•15h ago•116 comments

DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors

https://spectrum.ieee.org/shadow-walker-biped-humanoid-robot
24•sohkamyung•2d ago•7 comments

U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-researchers-demonstrate-ai-worm-could-target-any-online-device
57•shscs911•8h ago•12 comments

Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework

https://www.capstone-engine.org/
62•gregsadetsky•9h ago•2 comments

Roku LT Operating System open source distribution

https://blog.roku.com/developer/roku-lt-os
83•dpmdpm•10h ago•26 comments

HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C

https://hpcalcs.com/product/hp-16c-collectors-edition/
181•dm319•16h ago•111 comments

Words of Type

https://wiki.wordsoftype.com/
78•tobr•2d ago•12 comments

Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

https://moddedbear.com/gmail-thinks-im-stupid-so-i-left
1009•speckx•16h ago•672 comments

How we index images for RAG

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/how-we-index-images-for-rag
152•mooreds•19h ago•21 comments

It is an amazing time for programmers

https://46elks.com/blog/2026/05/29/an-amazing-time-for-programmers
100•jlundberg•3h ago•60 comments

Open Repair Data Standard

https://openrepair.org/open-data/open-standard/
135•cassepipe•16h ago•11 comments

Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release

https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/
202•jandeboevrie•21h ago•272 comments

Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code

https://alphapixeldev.com/recovering-eric-grahams-1987-amiga-juggler-raytracer-source-code/
18•mariuz•5h ago•5 comments

OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing

https://www.openfov.com/
131•mwit2023•3d ago•61 comments

Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly (2023)

https://ariadne.space/2023/04/12/writing-portable-arm-assembly.html
28•luu•2d ago•11 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.