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mitmproxy adds --emudhra option

https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/commit/169234499088fc2c414644a67efaed3d64ae2e3b
328•ahlCVA•4h ago•87 comments

Epic vs. Apple AU:Court Orders Alt App Stores,Sideloading and 3rd Party Payments

https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2026/2026fca1552
107•Mayzie•2h ago•58 comments

The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]

https://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~davidharvey/research/subnlogn.pdf
48•craigcitro•1h ago•27 comments

There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability

https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/
272•zkldi•5h ago•134 comments

Security Disclosure

https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st
367•passenger•6h ago•211 comments

Rust Style Guide

https://google.github.io/styleguide/rustguide.html
244•kaycebasques•9h ago•132 comments

GitLab critical patch release

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/
274•artooro•9h ago•67 comments

Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor

https://safedep.io/litellm-pypi-compromise-credential-stealer-backdoor/
460•abhisek•14h ago•156 comments

Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea

https://rumple.github.io/blog/2026/10/20/asking-llm-for-confidence.html
28•jimauthors•23h ago•17 comments

Chain of Thought for Humans

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2026/10/18/chain-of-thought-for-humans/
52•ibobev•2d ago•24 comments

LLM Agents Play Pokemon Showdown

https://olivergrabner.com/research/pokemon/
17•grabnero•2h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents

https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara
43•kmansm27•11h ago•12 comments

Beyond the &

https://lwn.net/Articles/1096028/
27•PaulHoule•1d ago•0 comments

Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/meta-new-mexico-cambridge-analytica-penalty.html
436•cbg0•10h ago•279 comments

Postgres recovery_prefetch can cause outages

https://ardentperf.com/2026/10/20/postgres-recovery_prefetch-considered-harmful-and-causing-outages/
11•plaur782•5h ago•0 comments

Code is clay now

https://www.albertodenia.com/writing/code-is-clay-now
123•albertodenia•2d ago•61 comments

PingCap TiDB Leaks

https://fulcrumsec.vg/pingcap/
260•swyx•1d ago•37 comments

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6000 years found in remote West Papua

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp814l80pw2o
167•bryanrasmussen•1d ago•30 comments

No more icons in every menu by default

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icons-in-every-menu/
217•riffraff•1d ago•152 comments

Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security

https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-...
698•ejohnso49•12h ago•343 comments

Clockwork Mechanics, Maintenance, and Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages

https://www.jhiblog.org/2026/10/19/clockwork-metaphors/
4•benbreen•2d ago•0 comments

OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud

https://openai.com/index/openai-models-google-cloud/
258•armcat•15h ago•107 comments

DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”

https://duckdb.org/2026/10/21/announcing-duckdb-200
384•nnx•14h ago•49 comments

Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/10/19/why-windows-11-still-ships-with-windows-95s-memory-manag...
154•khalidkhair•2d ago•101 comments

Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities

https://openai.com/index/coordinated-disclosure-of-critical-vulnerabilities/
243•nr378•14h ago•164 comments

EA is shutting down BioWare

https://www.theverge.com/games/1015647/ea-is-shutting-down-bioware
574•aaronbrethorst•10h ago•348 comments

Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin

https://apnews.com/article/oregon-waterfall-for-sale-lawmakers-996de63462d49ec3ad9bee1629fb9488
175•surprisetalk•13h ago•89 comments

Launch HN: Alter (YC S25) – Access control for multi-user agents

https://alterauth.com/
56•simfinii•21h ago•25 comments

PHP 8.2.35

https://github.com/php/php-src/releases/tag/php-8.2.35
984•tuyuri•14h ago•535 comments

I reverse engineered a board game

https://wuemeli.com/blog/reversing-hitster-game/
10•wuemeli•14h ago•0 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.