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Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8
1293•Tiberium•11h ago•795 comments

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/
1443•kuberwastaken•18h ago•388 comments

Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80

https://cuis.st/
99•theanonymousone•3d ago•15 comments

Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal

https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm
127•nvmdbljstm•2d ago•11 comments

I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9BTbIGxLg
120•surprisetalk•1d ago•10 comments

Herdr has released native app

https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app
182•cherioo•8h ago•112 comments

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html
275•sandslash•11h ago•94 comments

Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/20/gilgamesh-by-simon-armitage-review-an-ancient-epic-...
15•benbreen•2d ago•1 comments

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer
202•airinei•12h ago•14 comments

Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring OS/Hypervisor Experts in Europe

https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/98722
1•syrusakbary•2h ago

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
424•ea016•17h ago•148 comments

Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

https://github.com/mottopanikeiku/doomformer
86•falperc•9h ago•27 comments

'Elite North Korean hackers' blamed for $6.3B Binance hack

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/oct/30/uk-house-price-growth-crypto-industry-6bn-b...
25•tosh•1h ago•19 comments

LLM Voice

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html
466•ibobev•18h ago•248 comments

Python on My Wrist

https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/python-on-my-wrist.html
41•roywashere•3d ago•6 comments

Pico CSS is no longer maintained

https://github.com/picocss/pico/discussions/754
124•henrid•7h ago•51 comments

Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents

68•shong0504•17h ago•21 comments

A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014)

https://journal.animationstudies.org/article/id/66/
117•simonebrunozzi•10h ago•28 comments

An illustrated online book on Hewlett-Packard equipment

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/27/an-illustrated-online-book-on-hewlett-packard-equipment/
16•sohkamyung•2d ago•4 comments

Patrick Stewart has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/television/patrick-stewart-dead.html
2943•j4mie•13h ago•623 comments

If IPv4 were land

https://iptrust.co/blog/if-ipv4-were-land
282•rokostik•20h ago•396 comments

The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150

https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-great-american-rascal/
67•beatstop•10h ago•38 comments

Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"

https://github.com/johncassil/dontallow
134•johncassil•13h ago•99 comments

What we know so far about Spain train crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm8xz7pkd0jjo
196•ZeljkoS•1d ago•359 comments

Should a medical diagnosis reshape the past? (2025)

https://chengela.substack.com/p/should-a-medical-diagnosis-reshape
39•wyndham•10h ago•5 comments

Historical Scientific Instruments

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/historical-scientific-instruments
41•peteforde•2d ago•3 comments

ElementaryUI – Swift, in the Browser

https://elementary.codes
98•frizlab•12h ago•23 comments

16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive

https://16colo.rs/
117•memalign•16h ago•9 comments

Cormac McCarthy's Library

https://cormacmccarthy.lib.utk.edu/
53•maitland•8h ago•22 comments

NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117518160563539748
179•luke8086•21h ago•142 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
•
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.