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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

https://collusion.wiki/
187•moultano•1h ago•100 comments

Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge

https://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html
143•anitil•3h ago•45 comments

GPT-6 Astra

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
1926•kibae•18h ago•1733 comments

O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
36•embedding-shape•2h ago•13 comments

.name Termination

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/
1977•pavel_lishin•22h ago•486 comments

Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region

https://github.com/hawshemi/lg-c5-webos25-region-change
10•hawshemi•28m ago•2 comments

Ok, but Does It Scale?

https://spacetimedb.com/blog/how-does-spacetime-scale
7•theanonymousone•36m ago•0 comments

Elevator of the Year Winner Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building

https://www.starelevator.com/projects/star-elevator-modernization-of-the-metropolis-trust-building
40•palashawas•3d ago•13 comments

SubImage (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/subimage/jobs/NCTFgKK-founding-engineer
1•alexchantavy•1h ago

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
606•altertable•18h ago•201 comments

Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it

https://idpro.org/authorization-terminology-is-a-mess-lets-fix-it/
81•andychiare•2d ago•48 comments

IBM Bob

https://bob.ibm.com/
6•artpar•28m ago•7 comments

Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year

http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-...
298•beardyw•6h ago•115 comments

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM86DBOqgPM
385•feb•2d ago•268 comments

Why is Arrays.fill 265 times slower on G1GC?

https://krzysztofslusarski.github.io/2026/08/19/g1barrier.html
7•ejboy•3d ago•0 comments

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california
300•speckx•20h ago•93 comments

Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/nearly-impossible-how-fairphone-built-the-ethical-repaira...
11•CrypticShift•34m ago•7 comments

How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

https://news.mit.edu/2026/how-mit-research-project-became-global-programming-language-0831
141•theanonymousone•4d ago•66 comments

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007
374•gmays•1d ago•141 comments

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

https://babyloniantwins.com/blog/porting-a-1993-amiga-game-to-godot/
320•rabahs•22h ago•105 comments

Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids

https://carbonawarepricing.com/
67•High-Five•4h ago•46 comments

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)

https://gwern.net/xanadu
96•andsoitis•11h ago•27 comments

1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260828-the-startling-1960s-theory-that-stonehenge-was-a-pre...
49•dabinat•4d ago•55 comments

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/
310•karimf•21h ago•115 comments

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

https://armature.tech/blog/which-tools-coding-agents-install
249•screm•15h ago•117 comments

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

https://www.sciencealert.com/gps-glitched-across-the-us-by-as-much-as-33-feet-scientists-have-nev...
197•thread_id•1d ago•118 comments

Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

108•sukit•1d ago•128 comments

Move in C++ without a std:move

https://andreasfertig.com/blog/2026/09/move-in-cpp-without-a-stdmove/
57•dalvrosa•3d ago•63 comments

Oscar Winner Brings Monsters to Life with His Simulation Software

https://spectrum.ieee.org/oscar-winner-jernej-barbic
17•jruohonen•3d ago•1 comments

Xanadu was waiting for agents

https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu
135•nsm•2d ago•56 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.