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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/
689•vimarsh6739•7h ago•177 comments

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/
118•gnyeki•3h ago•46 comments

Grok Build is open source

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build
265•skp1995•5h ago•310 comments

Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]

https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf
88•bilsbie•4h ago•35 comments

Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)

https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/meet-metal-organic-frameworks-chemistry%E2%80%99s-new-miracle...
37•andsoitis•2h ago•10 comments

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sour...
345•rvz•22h ago•209 comments

G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics

https://davidobando.github.io/gsharp/
12•serial_dev•4d ago•2 comments

LLM Networking with MikroTik

https://blog.greg.technology/2026/07/14/llm-networking-with-mikrotik.html
47•gregsadetsky•3h ago•11 comments

Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite

https://sqlite.org/nulinstr.html
28•basilikum•2h ago•2 comments

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-...
230•neomindryan•10h ago•151 comments

Show HN: One More Letter

https://playonemoreletter.com/
30•hmate9•2h ago•21 comments

The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/
54•ninglor•3h ago•17 comments

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/misfits-attic-announces-duskers-20
91•spacemarine1•6h ago•21 comments

Job queues are deceptively tricky

https://typesanitizer.com/blog/job-queues.html
19•ingve•1d ago•3 comments

Book prizes don't work how you think

https://rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/book-prizes-dont-work-how-you-think
67•samclemens•1d ago•36 comments

Command Line Interface Guidelines

https://clig.dev/
67•subset•3d ago•9 comments

Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok

https://brainless.swerdlow.dev
91•benswerd•6h ago•18 comments

Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important

https://ramones.dev/posts/mental-health/
290•ramon156•14h ago•251 comments

Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)

https://dev.moe/en/3025
240•theanonymousone•12h ago•131 comments

Voxatron

https://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php
63•lsferreira42•6h ago•19 comments

P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC

https://pairdrop.net/
32•halb•3h ago•14 comments

Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

https://developer.puter.com/labs/firefox-wasm/
129•coolelectronics•4h ago•73 comments

Designing APIs for Agents

https://www.freestyle.sh/blog/opinion/designing-apis-for-agents
48•benswerd•2d ago•22 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/artie
1•tang8330•8h ago

Collection of Digital Clock Designs

https://clocks.dev
178•levmiseri•9h ago•36 comments

Show HN: E-- – A language you dial between English and Python

https://github.com/frmoded/e--
10•OdedF•5d ago•11 comments

Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)

https://github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side/misa77
132•nonadhocproblem•9h ago•40 comments

Towards a harness that can do anything

https://eardatasci.github.io/c/ambiance/index.html
173•evakhoury•11h ago•86 comments

MITS: Rockets, Calculators, and Personal Computers

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/micro-instrumentation-and-telemetry
32•BirAdam•2d ago•2 comments

Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

https://danq.me/2026/07/10/rescuing-7234-gifs/
107•birdculture•3d ago•10 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.