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F-Droid 2.0

https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html
628•daveoc64•4h ago•189 comments

Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard

https://bastardica.mitpit.com
184•MitPitt•21h ago•32 comments

Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design

https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard
114•sidharthkmenon•2h ago•37 comments

Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY
130•an0malous•1d ago•104 comments

Fearless SIMD v1.0

https://linebender.org/blog/fearless-simd-1-0/
90•verdagon•2d ago•15 comments

My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

https://ahmedhossamdev.com/writing/my-weird-new-hobby-wandering-around-tokyo/
90•ahmedhossamdev•2d ago•33 comments

The forgotten battle of East Lansing

https://eastlansinginfo.news/the-forgotten-battle-of-east-lansing/
53•rmason•3d ago•3 comments

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-need-to-start-funding-historical
9•benbreen•58m ago•0 comments

Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers

https://www.usestable.com/careers/product-engineer
1•collinpham•1h ago

Book review: Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-09-21-concurrency-textbook/
47•ahelwer•3d ago•9 comments

Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2131.pdf
31•int0x29•5h ago•2 comments

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver
91•jbotz•3h ago•74 comments

Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(26)00811-4
109•lormayna•1h ago•119 comments

Show HN: Radix – Visual UI for agentic programming

https://radix-os.com
14•0x1062•1h ago•14 comments

Two-tier encryption in the UK

https://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/
320•ReturnoftheHack•9h ago•328 comments

WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations

https://github.com/christianrowlands/wavedigger
67•882542F3884314B•1d ago•10 comments

Geothermal heat map of US hot springs

https://www.soakingsprings.com/hot-springs/geothermal-map
39•armenarmen•1d ago•14 comments

Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatch...
36•xnx•6h ago•63 comments

Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/18/auditing-in-the-age-of-good-enough-ai/
36•aray07•2d ago•1 comments

Web-based IBM 1620 emulator and IPL-V from 1963

https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-1620
42•abrax3141•1d ago•11 comments

Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

https://transluce.org/agent-activity
211•snikolaev•14h ago•191 comments

Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)

https://blog.arusekk.pl/posts/srht-account-takeover/
3•arusekk•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Treepeat – Code similarity detection using Tree-sitter

https://github.com/dsummersl/treepeat
28•91awebsi•2d ago•1 comments

Show HN: AgentRun: DSL to turn agents into workflows

https://github.com/Parcha-ai/agentrun
27•miguelrios•1d ago•1 comments

Nokia Design Archive (2025)

https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8e87-611f84c3fc4c
195•pillars•10h ago•104 comments

A Million Agents Is a Distributed System Problem

https://www.instacloud.com/blogs/a-million-agents-is-a-distributed-systems-problem
15•tonychang430•2h ago•1 comments

Lambda MicroEgg

https://www.philipzucker.com/lambda_miller_egg/
50•philzook•4d ago•5 comments

Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS

https://github.com/driceroland/Search
50•metrofun•11h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Air-gapped file encryption as self-decrypting HTML page

https://cms-sfx-demo.apeleg.com/
23•emurlin•12h ago•12 comments

Motor Characterization for Small Running Robots (2016)

https://robot-daycare.com/posts/2016-01-06-motor-characterization-for-small-running-robots/
16•loughnane•2d ago•0 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.