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Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri
416•vforno•18h ago•107 comments

EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-l...
1026•rapnie•15h ago•499 comments

Focus

https://boz.com/articles/focus
32•iacguy•2h ago•12 comments

GPT-5.6

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/
1086•logickkk1•9h ago•793 comments

Show HN: 18 Words

https://18words.com/
843•pompomsheep•13h ago•288 comments

Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made

https://kotaku.com/a-train-sim-created-by-just-one-person-is-being-called-the-best-ever-made-2000...
310•oumua_don17•4d ago•118 comments

Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/science/space/planetary-engulfment-hungry-star.html
15•wglb•1h ago•17 comments

Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

https://alexalejandre.com/programming/interview-with-mitchell-hashimoto/
137•veqq•9h ago•52 comments

My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part I (2020)

https://joesiegler.blog/2020/11/my-story-of-apogee-3dr/
37•Michelangelo11•1w ago•1 comments

Hy3

https://hy.tencent.com/research/hy3
398•andai•11h ago•87 comments

Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

https://github.com/malisper/pgrust
406•SweetSoftPillow•20h ago•413 comments

Triple Dragon Fractal (2020)

https://paulbourke.net/fractals/tripledragon/
17•nhatcher•3d ago•4 comments

No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026

https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/bulletinC.txt
244•ChrisArchitect•12h ago•184 comments

The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-glass-backbone-why-the-armys-logistics-will-break-in-the-next-war/
304•baud147258•13h ago•389 comments

A road to Lisp: Why Lisp

https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-09-why-lisp/
119•silcoon•13h ago•119 comments

Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds

https://www.ello.com/blog/teaching-a-child-in-1000-ms
50•catalinvoss•5h ago•63 comments

Girls just wanna have fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting

https://nahla.dev/blog/waitfree_queue/
140•EvgeniyZh•3d ago•31 comments

Build your own vulnerability harness

https://blog.cloudflare.com/build-your-own-vulnerability-harness/
10•ianrahman•1h ago•4 comments

Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

https://www.context.dev
74•TheYahiaBakour•11h ago•55 comments

A possible future for Damn Interesting

https://www.damninteresting.com/a-possible-future/
243•mzur•11h ago•32 comments

Why American ambulance rides are so expensive

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are
102•jyunwai•4h ago•139 comments

Muse Spark 1.1

https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/
330•ot•12h ago•174 comments

Cache-Conscious Data Layout in Rust: Field Zoning, False Sharing, 128-Byte Rule

https://debasishg.github.io/blog/part1-cache-conscious-data-layout-in-rust/
8•eigenBasis•2d ago•1 comments

Patterncollider: Generate and explore quasiperiodic tiling patterns

https://github.com/aatishb/patterncollider
25•tobr•3d ago•1 comments

Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone

https://www.wired.com/story/this-buried-apple-feature-turns-an-iphone-into-the-perfect-kids-dumb-...
282•PotatoNinja•3d ago•165 comments

Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wildcard/jobs/ZSLVaaU-founding-engineer
1•kaushikmahorker•9h ago

GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper

https://toot-books.pages.dev/blog/glm-5-2-vat-benchmark
190•adamkurkiewicz•8h ago•113 comments

Opinionated and easy Pi.dev configuration

https://lazypi.org/
115•lwhsiao•11h ago•62 comments

SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053198/simpolitics/
84•mckelveyf•12h ago•14 comments

TLS certificates for internal services done right

https://tuxnet.dev/posts/tls-for-internal-services/
134•mrl5•11h ago•97 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.