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Introducing System One Models and Jev

https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev
1392•albelfio•14h ago•396 comments

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme
1645•arnemunthekaas•21h ago•205 comments

Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography

https://security.apple.com/blog/apple-reference-image/
249•imwally•7h ago•169 comments

Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

https://inflightsimulator.com
193•rkotcher•2d ago•96 comments

An update on Wayback Machine access

https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/an-update-on-wayback-machine-access/
536•ChrisArchitect•16h ago•272 comments

Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/09/16/on-learning-programming-in-an-age-of-llms/
8•moneroloop2018•45m ago•0 comments

Doing Everyone Else's Job

https://yosefk.com/blog/doing-everyone-elses-job.html
69•luu•1d ago•35 comments

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-gemini-3-...
414•leumon•16h ago•269 comments

Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New

https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/11/negativland-culture-jamming-and-the-art-of-making-something-new/
83•bananaboy•7h ago•19 comments

Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

https://codyho.dev/blog/gpu-driver/
322•ADevWithAnIdea•14h ago•183 comments

German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol

https://rheinmetall.github.io/onboardapi-documentation/9.10.0/index.html
220•summarity•12h ago•77 comments

Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/zsst-voodoo/
127•zdw•11h ago•37 comments

A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-software-thing-i-built-gps-on-a-25mhz-486-sx.1258966/
26•JPLeRouzic•4h ago•6 comments

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes

https://dank.systems/posts/2026-09-15-ai-bear.html
228•jaykru•16h ago•248 comments

Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07885
37•pythonic_hell•2d ago•3 comments

Datamimic – don't let your coding agent invent its own test world

https://github.com/rapiddweller/datamimic
38•ake2l•4h ago•6 comments

Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/
11•vertigoruntime•1h ago•0 comments

We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub

https://www.strix.ai/blog/baseten-harbor-github-pat-takeover
277•bearsyankees•15h ago•153 comments

MartyPC – A Cycle-Accurate IBM PC/XT Emulator

https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc
15•yitchelle•4h ago•1 comments

Saving Jet Fuel

https://tech.marksblogg.com/scikit-decide-openap-optimal-flight-planning.html
95•marklit•10h ago•44 comments

Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite

https://withcapsule.app/
331•bashtian•20h ago•139 comments

Let's make quality the norm again

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/short-life/
391•ingve•23h ago•394 comments

Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up

https://mnoukhov.github.io/posts/ngu/
93•natolambert•14h ago•4 comments

An interactive world map of the stories cultures have told

https://originmap.sunnyguha.com/
49•momentmaker•2d ago•6 comments

Chopping up books when they're physically too big

https://attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com/20260915/cut-up-your-books.html
176•matt_kirkland•15h ago•165 comments

Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ly49w9g1edo
489•choult•23h ago•427 comments

Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Serre/
134•jzox•13h ago•24 comments

The Beauty of Roundabouts

https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-09-14/
56•ngruhn•2d ago•107 comments

WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages

https://github.com/GraafHenk/numberwang
160•Liogra123•14h ago•57 comments

Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training

https://blog.cloudflare.com/accountable-mixed-use-ai-crawlers/
73•djfergus•7h ago•42 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
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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.