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Dutch Computer Museums

https://aresluna.org/dutch-computer-museums/
48•npollock•1h ago•12 comments

The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/math/1973-halmos.pdf
168•suopspaces•4h ago•95 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
112•hn_acker•19h ago•38 comments

FLUX 3 Image

https://bfl.ai/models/flux-3-image
106•minimaxir•22h ago•12 comments

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

https://stillwet.art/
87•alstonite•17h ago•23 comments

ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/01/nx-s1-5977815/trump-icc-sanctions-kimberly-prost
92•rbanffy•54m ago•24 comments

Supabase is acquiring Turso

https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-is-acquiring-turso
133•cvburgess•2h ago•70 comments

Shimano Bicycle Museum Review

https://inrng.com/2026/10/shimano-bicycle-museum/
266•pietroppeter•12h ago•63 comments

Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code

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33•evakhoury•22h ago•15 comments

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/
510•luispa•18h ago•370 comments

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

https://www.science.org/content/article/nazi-germany-had-no-hope-making-atomic-bomb-uranium-cubes...
64•xqcgrek2•16h ago•23 comments

To grieve, or not to grieve?

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98•stabbles•1d ago•87 comments

Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor

https://github.com/kvoltmer/Audionaut
118•vltmrkls•9h ago•39 comments

Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

https://www.frogandtoad.ai/
489•supermdguy•19h ago•114 comments

Fixing GRPO's credit assignment problem without evaluating every step

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36178
17•mrkn1•3h ago•2 comments

Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models/
602•jasondavies•1d ago•213 comments

Tiny Brutalism

https://placeholders.itch.io/tiny-brutalism
75•abetusk•18h ago•19 comments

Limited Liability In Historical Perspective (1997) [pdf]

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1623&context=wlulr
10•gradus_ad•17h ago•3 comments

Now That's an Impurity Story

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/now-s-impurity-story
32•dcminter•21h ago•2 comments

SvelteKit 3

https://svelte.dev/blog/sveltekit-3-is-here
379•sampsn•21h ago•162 comments

Show HN: Breadcrumb, record everything on your mac + context manager for AI

https://innerloop.works/breadcrumb
31•jv22222•23h ago•5 comments

Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

https://blog.gitbutler.com/git-3-sha-256
532•chmaynard•1d ago•494 comments

Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/02/power-approval-set-to-delay-oracles-wisconsin-ai-d...
39•Betelbuddy•2h ago•11 comments

Benchmarking retrieval for agents on messy real-world company knowledge

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/company-knowledge-bench
18•emil_sorensen•4h ago•1 comments

Pi 1.0

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/
1618•sergiotapia•22h ago•552 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

252•whoishiring•1d ago•251 comments

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/
372•Kuyawa•14h ago•195 comments

StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421
611•Snowly•1d ago•168 comments

Turbo Haskell

https://comonad.com/reader/2026/turbo-haskell/
188•pjmlp•1d ago•49 comments

Pi Durable

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable/
474•paulsmith•22h ago•65 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
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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.