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Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/47/1/zsad253/7280269
186•bilsbie•1h ago•71 comments

Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important

https://ramones.dev/posts/mental-health/
61•ramon156•2h ago•36 comments

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html
637•vinhnx•10h ago•152 comments

Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers

https://dev.moe/en/3025
6•theanonymousone•14m ago•0 comments

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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7013338
25•fabioricardo7•2h ago•28 comments

Privacy Incidents – Real-world examples of why your photos need protection

https://snapsafe.org/incidents.html
4•Cider9986•17m ago•0 comments

The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence

https://smarterarticles.co.uk/the-three-second-theft-why-ai-voice-fraud-outruns-every-defence
5•dxs•18m ago•0 comments

Telegram Serverless

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56•soheilpro•3h ago•37 comments

Jiga (YC W21) is hiring the best people to make manufacturing great again

https://jiga.io/about-us/
1•grmmph•1h ago

DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs

https://martinfowler.com/articles/llm-and-dsls.html
59•SirOibaf•3h ago•32 comments

Weathergotchi – an open-source climate Tamagotchi

https://github.com/Michael-Manning/E-Paper-Climate-Logger
34•luanmuniz•2h ago•11 comments

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https://github.com/evansjp/grepathy
4•evansjp•10m ago•0 comments

SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status

https://www.ft.com/content/3a023b95-66c3-41e1-b0ce-df752a499541
50•youngtaff•37m ago•6 comments

Societal Impacts: Claude's values across models and languages

https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-values-models-languages
25•taubek•2h ago•20 comments

A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS

https://cdrom.ca/games/2026/05/30/xd.html
27•zetamax•1d ago•0 comments

Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone

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647•xenova•19h ago•230 comments

Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

https://vpd.ca/
316•LookAtThatBacon•13h ago•126 comments

What `for x in y` hides from you – From Scratch Code

https://fromscratchcode.com/blog/what-for-x-in-y-hides-from-you/
4•rbanffy•39m ago•0 comments

Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard

https://github.com/LazoVelko/neverclick
33•thunderbong•3d ago•36 comments

TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access

https://tailscale.com/security-bulletins
185•jervant•12h ago•107 comments

Latent Space as a New Medium

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/latent-space-as-a-new-medium
18•thm•1d ago•2 comments

What's the most popular number in Hacker News titles?

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4•omgmog•55m ago•0 comments

Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy

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4•janandonly•1h ago•0 comments

Briar Is in Maintenance Mode

https://briarproject.org/news/2026-maintenance-mode/
3•ristello•1h ago•0 comments

Bootstrapping GDC with DMD

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260713.html
3•LorenDB•1d ago•0 comments

Using Go for Mobile Apps

https://www.davidsobsessions.com/p/one-year-of-gomobile/
14•theHocineSaad•4h ago•5 comments

The Tower Keeps Rising

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/the-tower-keeps-rising/
514•cdrnsf•20h ago•239 comments

Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left

https://mindgard.ai/blog/cursor-0day-when-full-disclosure-becomes-the-only-protection-left
410•Synthetic7346•19h ago•191 comments

How I use HTMX with Go

https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/how-i-use-htmx-with-go
288•gnabgib•17h ago•89 comments

Who's running all those tiny RPKI servers?

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/15/whos-running-all-those-tiny-rpki-servers/
56•enz•6h ago•8 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.