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Pi 1.0

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/
921•sergiotapia•9h ago•305 comments

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/
29•Kuyawa•1h ago•10 comments

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/
192•luispa•5h ago•115 comments

How Singapore's government-run dating service works

https://www.singapore-samizdat.com/p/how-singapores-government-run-dating-service-firstdate-works
37•danielfoster•2h ago•12 comments

Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models/
462•jasondavies•12h ago•170 comments

Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles

https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/index.html
153•rafaelc•8h ago•147 comments

SvelteKit 3

https://svelte.dev/blog/sveltekit-3-is-here
170•sampsn•8h ago•62 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

169•whoishiring•13h ago•175 comments

Pi Durable

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable/
286•paulsmith•9h ago•35 comments

Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/using-opus-55-to-discover-a-new-eyewitness
102•benbreen•7h ago•18 comments

StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421
537•Snowly•17h ago•140 comments

Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

https://blog.gitbutler.com/git-3-sha-256
273•chmaynard•11h ago•272 comments

CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development

https://www.cssbed.com
80•sea-gold•7h ago•20 comments

RIP, vector database

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/rip-vector-database
297•razin•12h ago•78 comments

ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/
91•50kIters•8h ago•37 comments

Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

https://www.frogandtoad.ai/
75•supermdguy•6h ago•12 comments

Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia

https://github.com/Vibra-Ingenn/Janus
58•Maverick617•8h ago•9 comments

Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

https://stoppels.ch/goalposts/
115•stabbles•11h ago•121 comments

Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/various-projects-independently-find-hidden-sdr-capabilities-in-esp32-micr...
189•nkw•13h ago•30 comments

Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026AV002570
89•gumby•9h ago•6 comments

Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-k2-streams/
216•elffjs•14h ago•87 comments

Context Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37725
127•emersonmacro•13h ago•28 comments

Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests

https://tangled.org/burrito.space/bez
96•nerdypepper•10h ago•43 comments

How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026

https://nnethercote.github.io/2026/09/30/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-september-2026.html
237•trickypr•15h ago•122 comments

RacketCon Is Saturday

https://con.racket-lang.org/
129•spdegabrielle•13h ago•36 comments

Aweb – Communication for AI Agents

https://aweb.ai
30•gurjeet•6h ago•22 comments

Show HN: Open-source model routing for coding agents at Astra-level performance

96•adchurch•1d ago•32 comments

Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators

https://www.essex.ac.uk/news/2026/09/30/butterflies-use-optical-illusions-to-dodge-predators
23•gmays•5h ago•4 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)

102•whoishiring•13h ago•307 comments

GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design

https://news.synopsys.com/2026-09-30-OpenAI-and-Synopsys-Announce-GPT-Synopsys-Frontier-Intellige...
175•giuliomagnifico•18h ago•103 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.