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Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/humble-bundle-just-completely-killed-most-of-their-securi...
83•rdmuser•1h ago•14 comments

93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)

https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
384•zenincognito•9h ago•50 comments

Tim Peters has died

https://discuss.python.org/t/in-memoriam-tim-peters-1952-2026/110028
1125•ayhanfuat•1d ago•126 comments

Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server

https://www.wiz.io/blog/cve-2026-119618-rce-apache-http-server-vulnerability
150•soheilpro•5h ago•68 comments

Jane Street: Socratic Tutor

https://github.com/janestreet/agent_skills/blob/master/socratic-tutor/SKILL.md
55•tosh•1d ago•13 comments

AWS emulator

https://github.com/aws/aws-emulator
811•super_linear•13h ago•232 comments

I gave an agent a lakehouse and control of my garden

https://jatorre.github.io/garden/
35•jatorre•3d ago•10 comments

Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang

https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-preparing-to-oust-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-30f421ad
924•jbredeche•9h ago•1267 comments

A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter

https://michael.bacarella.com/2026/11/10/false-smoke-alarm-jane-street-datacenter/
474•mbac32768•15h ago•236 comments

Gemini Decisions API

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/
399•iamdelirium•13h ago•122 comments

United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-bans-ai-agents-booking-flights/
526•herpderperator•10h ago•515 comments

Europe has been living beyond its means. Now the bills are due

https://economist.com/europe/2026/11/10/europe-has-been-living-beyond-its-means-now-the-bills-are...
13•andsoitis•1h ago•3 comments

Lock Your GitHub Actions

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/lock-github-actions/
226•gslin•9h ago•47 comments

I'm Working on a FOSS Linux Pinbal Simulation Engine

https://www.getlazarus.org/forums/topic/17/
24•sysrpl•2h ago•4 comments

Darling Development Update – Q4 2026

https://blog.darlinghq.org/2026/11/08/development-update-q4-2026/
18•tech234a•3h ago•4 comments

Emacs in the Age of Magic

https://commandlinesystems.com/magic.txt
210•ggcr•11h ago•90 comments

Bad ideas that aren't bad anymore

https://devonestes.com/bad-ideas-that-arent-bad-anymore
29•sevenseacat•4h ago•14 comments

Slavdom Unearthed: Marian Wawrzeniecki's Neopagan Paintings (1891–1923)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marian-wawrzeniecki/
18•lermontov•3d ago•3 comments

The Utah Teapot

https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/
125•cobbal•12h ago•31 comments

A general purpose Apple Silicon layer for x86-64 PCs

https://github.com/tylertms/Stela
97•iceboundrock•9h ago•39 comments

Did Life Begin in an RNA World?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/did-life-begin-in-an-rna-world-20261109/
56•acossta•2d ago•20 comments

Lean Grimoire

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/11/11/lean-grimoire/
31•smilelamp•5h ago•5 comments

My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site?

https://pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-site
976•eyvindn•19h ago•355 comments

Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2

https://av.github.io/safe-sand/
361•everlier•18h ago•67 comments

The Lost World of Aquaterra

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/12/aquaterra-ancient-human-migration/689029/
4•ag8•14h ago•0 comments

Stingray Fish Laser

https://www.stingray.no/en/technology/
27•tptacek•2d ago•24 comments

Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/faster-retrieval
199•zerop•15h ago•36 comments

Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yogurt
229•brownrout•16h ago•94 comments

Huawei releases MACaQ, its internal quantizer for local inference

https://github.com/huawei-csl/MACaQ
94•thefox96•11h ago•23 comments

Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund

https://termsheetplease.com/
216•bolau•12h ago•85 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
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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.