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Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome
130•AshleysBrain•1h ago•65 comments

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/
168•sohkamyung•3h ago•26 comments

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2026/press-release/
106•sasvari•3h ago•12 comments

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
1030•OfficialTurkey•14h ago•1023 comments

Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese

https://fiveminutesforward.com/post/2026-10-04-telegraph-test/
15•Theory42•1h ago•5 comments

It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/30/it-may-soon-be-possible-to-create-mir...
19•amai•1h ago•13 comments

House with 15M underground tunnels for sale for 300k

https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/26612080.house-15m-underground-tunnels-sale-300k/
4•librasteve•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens

https://astrohelm.app/
33•HeavenFox•2d ago•12 comments

Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model

https://strandsagents.com/blog/introducing-strands-decider/
221•gmays•11h ago•65 comments

Rust's derive often implies inline

https://yossarian.net/til/post/rust-s-derive-often-implies-inline/
23•woodruffw•3d ago•1 comments

Decisions API is in public beta

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/decisions
347•chiefstorm•16h ago•187 comments

ESP32-C3 Adblock

https://github.com/M-Abozaid/esp32-c3-adblock
138•jayhoon•11h ago•55 comments

Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\
1895•Philpax•23h ago•1142 comments

EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/
365•ilreb•21h ago•36 comments

Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer

https://github.com/shader-effects-inc/shaders
43•jinqueeny•7h ago•24 comments

What is Codemode

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/10/6/codemode/
109•Tomte•23h ago•50 comments

Gallery of Processor Cache Effects (2010)

https://igoro.com/archive/gallery-of-processor-cache-effects/
26•porridgeraisin•2d ago•4 comments

Forever Junior: The Skills AI Can't Develop for You

https://tech.criteo.com/blog/human-skills-ai-cant-develop-junior-engineers/
21•brugidou•5h ago•14 comments

Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month

349•IvanK_net•18h ago•190 comments

The cost of lies: A Mineserver story

https://www.jeremyreimer.com/rockets-item.lsp?f=true&p=272
140•luu•3d ago•61 comments

Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model

https://www.zohaib.cc/blog/smartest-claude-code-feature
231•zed_labs_dev•19h ago•132 comments

Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI

https://penguin-mail.com/
212•kavourias•15h ago•138 comments

PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace

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33•password54321•2h ago•19 comments

OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU
309•fsbonetto•20h ago•358 comments

Show HN: NanoMuse – An open-source AI agent for your phone and computer

https://github.com/nano-muse/nanoMuse
32•ilreb•9h ago•9 comments

The Legend of the Paper Crane

https://mazdastories.com/en_us/inspire/paper-cranes-into-the-fold/
23•vismit2000•2d ago•11 comments

Show HN: Arcadeia – A self-hosted media library with animated video previews

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10•omidontop•2d ago•6 comments

La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)

https://nanochess.org/la_cueva_bbs.html
60•nanochess•9h ago•21 comments

Treg (OpenRouter for Tools)

https://github.com/superdesigndev/treg
39•trollied•20h ago•9 comments

LLMs and Data Poisoning Are Weaponized to Manufacture Consensus

https://medium.com/@eslam.elsewedy/synthetic-truth-how-marketing-power-and-ai-bend-reality-cd8a11...
16•marketinganai•1h ago•7 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.