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Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/
1783•dbreunig•6h ago•565 comments

Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise

512•aarushyadav•7h ago•276 comments

US boy names that became girl names and vice versa

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268•xoobdev•7h ago•294 comments

If you love a website, back it up

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374•ingve•11h ago•92 comments

Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app

https://momentic.ai/
116•wuweiweiwu•7h ago•75 comments

Show HN: Warsaw in voxels – An interactive 3D map of the city centre

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201•stared•8h ago•35 comments

The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-sec-should-block-anthropics-ipo-to-protect-the-public/
126•cdrnsf•1h ago•73 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026)

167•whoishiring•8h ago•137 comments

The Ford Privacy Promise: You're in Control of Your Data

https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2026/introducing-the-ford-privacy-promise
21•KoftaBob•2h ago•11 comments

Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/02/egoless-mathematics-in-the-ai-era/
100•smilelamp•5h ago•77 comments

Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal

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94•ibobev•6h ago•30 comments

Self-Employed? Solopreneur? NIST Has a Cybersecurity Guide Just for You

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/11/self-employed-solopreneur-nist-has-cybersecurity-gu...
67•tomrod•6h ago•21 comments

Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks

https://freenode.net/article/ubuntu-lts-kernels-still-unfixed-for-critical-cve-2026-98432
291•majorchord•5h ago•63 comments

Anthropic's growth just flattened

https://www.regenerator1.com/p/anthropics-growth-just-flattened
133•cdrnsf•1h ago•158 comments

A Conversation with Paul Masurel, Creator of Tantivy

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/tantivy-interview
12•philippemnoel•2d ago•0 comments

Polyend releases the Tracker firmware source code

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73•austinallegro•7h ago•15 comments

WTF Ubuntu?

https://chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubuntu
1283•chalmovsky•9h ago•575 comments

Apple reports fourth quarter results

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/11/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/
73•mfiguiere•2h ago•70 comments

SLAC researchers find proof of altermagnetism, a new magnetic phase

https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-10-29-slac-researchers-find-proof-altermagnetism-new-mag...
13•gmays•2h ago•3 comments

Skill to Create Product Videos

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60•aaitor•6h ago•19 comments

Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Technical Graduates in Denver (Engineering/CS Focus)

https://bitmovin.com/careers/8660599002/
1•slederer•7h ago

Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/02/oracle-files-to-sell-20-billion-in-new-stock-bonds-to-finance-ai-...
144•smartmic•5h ago•104 comments

WorkOS reports security breach

16•werrett•58m ago•2 comments

C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Stairs, Levels and Levelling Up (Part 11)

https://retrogamecoders.com/c64-basic-dungeon-part11/
56•ibobev•9h ago•10 comments

We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%

https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-targeted-zone-builds/
134•wondersky•9h ago•44 comments

Making Peace with the Projective Plane

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/11/02/projective-plane/
27•ibobev•6h ago•15 comments

When Modernization Breaks Working Code: A Study of LLMs on Legacy PHP

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40269
16•tambourine_man•1d ago•11 comments

LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks

https://longcat.ai/blog/longcat-2.5/
77•pretext•9h ago•21 comments

Moving our warehouse off DuckDB

https://posthog.com/blog/moving-off-duckdb
157•emschwartz•8h ago•107 comments

Show HN: I've updated my Linux System Call website and API

https://syscall.sh/
205•guitmz•15h ago•48 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.