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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html
346•ckardaris•5h ago•189 comments

The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

https://tmog.org
23•CarbonNanotubes•45m ago•17 comments

Htmx 4.0

https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released
336•rmsaksida•6h ago•78 comments

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit
151•avsm•4h ago•51 comments

25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA

https://www.thehealthy.com/news/chicken-recall-fsis-august-2026/
16•randycupertino•50m ago•5 comments

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

https://www.inventati.org/
359•exiguus•7h ago•329 comments

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

https://www.orbify.eu/demo/
325•smoser•7h ago•116 comments

Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe

https://acko.net/blog/curvature-beziers/
29•leephillips•4d ago•8 comments

Isitdoneyet.gg is a website I made to figure out if games are complete

https://isitdoneyet.gg/
9•Kwolok•49m ago•1 comments

Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23691
41•stephenchung•3h ago•3 comments

Chrome Deletes the Last Manifest V2 Extensions on August 31

https://bumbletap.com/blog/chrome-manifest-v2-extensions-removed
15•umershahzeb•1h ago•6 comments

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3
427•jeudesprits•5h ago•147 comments

Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/attimet/jobs/6btZFDg-member-of-technical-staff-engineering
1•kbanothu•3h ago

Visual Analysis of Binary Files

https://binvis.io/#/
24•vismit2000•2d ago•5 comments

The Twelve-Factor App

https://12factor.net/
165•jxmorris12•21h ago•83 comments

Barrier lake continues to pose flood risk, China warns

https://kathmandupost.com/national/2026/08/28/barrier-lake-continues-to-pose-flood-risk-china-warns
69•r721•4h ago•16 comments

Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-08-25-verschlimmbesserung/
78•speckx•5h ago•40 comments

Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015)

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/illegal-sand-mining/
40•EndXA•2d ago•14 comments

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/anthropic-government-blacklisting-ruling.html
394•jbegley•18h ago•305 comments

The Analytical AI Handbook

https://handbook.sutro.sh
24•sethkim•1h ago•1 comments

Sloc Cloc and Code 4.0 (scc) – Finding the files that need the most attention

https://boyter.org/posts/sloc-cloc-code-hotspots-finding-files-that-need-attention/
6•boyter•4d ago•0 comments

Bye, Bye GitHub

https://log.ozgur.works/bye-bye-github.html
10•iozguradem•1h ago•2 comments

Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/africa-wild-dogs-most-hated-carnivores-continent-he...
54•speckx•5h ago•17 comments

Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)

https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/blog/hilariously-fast-volume-computation-with-the-divergence-theorem....
226•luu•11h ago•60 comments

Get your Windows license refund

https://en.refund4freedom.org/
573•smartmic•6h ago•228 comments

State of the Map 2026

https://2026.stateofthemap.org/
110•lode•6h ago•41 comments

Show HN: Conduct, open-source guardrails for LLM and MCP tool calls

https://github.com/sseshachala/conductai
6•sudhendra1•51m ago•0 comments

Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02506-4
86•sohkamyung•7h ago•113 comments

Migrating to HTTPX2

https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/httpx2.md
171•tosh•8h ago•74 comments

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/
347•miniBill•13h ago•114 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.