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Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament
284•input_sh•2h ago•175 comments

Molly(Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable

https://piefed.world/post/1503394
58•DeepLogin•2h ago•17 comments

Switch Lowering in GCC

https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/
93•signa11•4h ago•16 comments

We Took over ChatGPT Accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai
37•armcat•2h ago•23 comments

Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32

https://zebra.rodeo/en/blog/marelleo/
90•foOg•3d ago•27 comments

Digital Minimalism

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html
94•wilbertliu•6h ago•62 comments

AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura

https://thedataexchange.media/leo-de-moura-lean-aws/
67•datascientist•1d ago•14 comments

My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/
324•DHowett•19h ago•95 comments

The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/
484•domhudson•23h ago•337 comments

Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)

https://github.com/chris124567/cfsolve
241•costco•2d ago•68 comments

Northflank Breached

https://status.northflank.com
449•js4ever•21h ago•321 comments

Tell HN: Scribd Breached

253•x______________•9h ago•96 comments

Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots

https://www.techpolicy.press/breaking-the-open-web-wont-stop-the-bad-bots/
278•raybb•3d ago•123 comments

Shiny Object Syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiny_object_syndrome
22•janisz•1h ago•9 comments

Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium
303•nanna•20h ago•48 comments

The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-climate-culture/the-oldest-ice-is-disappearing-the-stone...
162•dxs•16h ago•64 comments

Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights

https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer
260•dbreunig•19h ago•127 comments

Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/
917•_chall•1d ago•535 comments

Longitudinal Changes InWearable-Captured PhysiologyBefore Sudden Cardiac Death

https://www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.1016/j.jaccas.2026.110397
42•brandonb•2d ago•20 comments

Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code

https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-...
212•taubek•22h ago•262 comments

Keeping the Bonfires Lit

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/keeping-bonfires-lit
5•Petiver•1d ago•0 comments

Infinite Mac: BeOS

https://blog.persistent.info/2026/10/infinite-mac-beos.html
169•ecliptik•17h ago•100 comments

The federated code forge

https://tangled.org/blog/forge/
298•zlliang•20h ago•86 comments

Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case
316•swq115•1d ago•58 comments

Show HN: To Honor Sir Patrick Stewart, Enjoy the TNG Episode Guessing Game

https://tng.episodle.com/
200•francisofascii•12h ago•56 comments

Jules Verne's Lost Novel

https://blue-continuum.com/verne-paris
123•dnetesn•16h ago•30 comments

Brief History of PDP Computers

https://entropicthoughts.com/history-of-pdp-computers
37•ibobev•1d ago•15 comments

How long do you need to hold down the power button to turn off a PC?

https://www.osnews.com/story/146273/how-long-do-you-need-to-hold-down-the-power-button-to-turn-of...
40•Arodex•3h ago•7 comments

Double Buffering with Cloudflare Queues

https://bellone.com/technical/double-buffering-with-cloudflare-queues
49•b_llc•2d ago•5 comments

Trapped in the Technologist Factory

https://ideolalia.com/essays/trapped-in-the-technologist-factory.html
50•luu•2d ago•16 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.