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FM-1 Workbench

https://open.m-vave.com/fm1-workbench
77•simonebrunozzi•1h ago•41 comments

After 600 experiments, here's what I discovered about JEPA world models

https://haddyalchaer.com/jepa
149•halcdev•2h ago•29 comments

$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/11-4-million-in-nvidia-hardware-vanishes-during-shipment-from-c...
58•crescit_eundo•2h ago•33 comments

Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-11-11-reverse-engineering-my-coway-air-purifier-to-ditch-the-cloud/
599•scottjg•22h ago•169 comments

Big tech is here to let us down

https://blog.jsweeting.me/big-tech-is-here-to-let-us-down
14•speckx•28m ago•2 comments

Perplexity Decider v1.3: Training, eval, and use cases

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perplexity-decider
32•gmays•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Isometric SF – A pixel-art map of the SF Bay Area

https://isometricsf.com/
83•juscha1•2h ago•30 comments

Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.132.3436.1291
395•voxleone•8h ago•277 comments

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+v, Ctrl+cve: Bypassing Android's Clipboard Read Security Measures

https://toninoble.com/post/ctrlc-ctrlv-ctrlcve
34•dethmasque•2h ago•15 comments

Found: A protein that drives ageing without unleashing inflammation

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03638-3
23•gumby•1h ago•2 comments

A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/a-technical-vision-for-the-haskell-ecosystem/15078
144•cosmic_quanta•6h ago•63 comments

Models can now transmit viruses in weight-space

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2611.weight-space-misfolding
98•mkglees•2h ago•36 comments

AI unlocks Gödel's notebooks, said to contain hundreds of proved theorems

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/nov/13/kurt-godel-notebooks-ai-helps-unlock-hidden-disco...
228•bookofjoe•3h ago•59 comments

It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on an iPad

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1xuup7a/technology_sucks_it_literally_takes_16_clicks_...
147•BobaFloutist•2h ago•66 comments

No AI Slop: A Manifesto

https://www.slopmanifesto.com/
46•bankombinator•57m ago•14 comments

Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust

https://github.com/lonewolf-im/lonewolf/releases/tag/v0.3.0
110•ortuman•6h ago•29 comments

Minnesota guitarist's "palmfrets" invention strikes a new chord

https://www.echopress.com/business/minnesota-guitarists-invention-strikes-a-new-chord
87•bookofjoe•5h ago•55 comments

Technology as a Search Problem

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/technology-as-a-search-problem
9•dverlaeckt80•1h ago•0 comments

Someone's Impersonating This Blog

https://mattbee.mataroa.blog/p/someones-impersonating-this-blog/
34•speckx•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI disbands its robotics team as its general models start running robots

https://fortune.com/2026/11/13/openai-disbands-robotics-team-as-its-general-models-start-running-...
97•sshah03•2h ago•31 comments

Apify Security Incident

https://status.apify.com/incidents/sxd1dj5j6749
70•cynicalpeace•3h ago•10 comments

LibreOffice actually works 365 days a year

https://twitter.com/LibreOffice/status/2121205272479998268
681•mksaunders2•3h ago•218 comments

CERN Built the Large Hadron Collider's Next-Gen Magnets

https://spectrum.ieee.org/large-hadron-collider-superconducting-magnets
52•marc__1•6h ago•4 comments

IceWM

https://ice-wm.org/
349•inatreecrown2•15h ago•202 comments

Concurrent Shell Command Queues

https://emmer.dev/blog/concurrent-shell-command-queues/
15•speckx•3h ago•5 comments

Brazil's Caixa insurer breach exposes names and tax IDs of all 7.6M customers

https://filemanager-cdn.mziq.com/published/3972906b-e50b-4f74-ab74-4d0d32125d11/9567a559-d20a-486...
153•dvaplima•4h ago•63 comments

Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com

https://status.claude.com/incidents/nn11wk485zfn
470•__vivek•10h ago•374 comments

Microsoft outage gives customers a crash course in dependence on Redmond

https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/11/13/microsoft-outage-gives-customers-a-crash-course-in-de...
42•nephihaha•2h ago•6 comments

Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? Here are some theories

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-6029408
140•kamaraju•5h ago•135 comments

North Korean hackers used fake video calls in $400M crypto hack, says FBI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqdj1ellpd70o
78•saikiran91•3h ago•28 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.