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430•solarist•6h ago•110 comments

Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/
191•_chall•8h ago•322 comments

Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case
144•swq115•5h ago•16 comments

US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech

https://progressives.house.gov/2026/10/reps-casar-waters-lead-democratic-resolution-opposing-a-i-...
350•DeepLogin•3h ago•223 comments

Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8
1634•Tiberium•17h ago•1095 comments

Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/123553?trw=no
49•brandonb•1h ago•15 comments

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/
1622•kuberwastaken•1d ago•425 comments

5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/5-meo-dmt-sometimes-cancels-the-ebbinghaus
19•surprisetalk•2h ago•14 comments

The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/
119•domhudson•2h ago•81 comments

Northflank Breached

https://status.northflank.com
3•js4ever•20m ago•0 comments

Finding Panics with Call Graph Analyzer

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/242/finding-panics-with-call-graph-analyzer/
29•ndr•2d ago•0 comments

Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/20/gilgamesh-by-simon-armitage-review-an-ancient-epic-...
131•benbreen•2d ago•37 comments

Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261026-00/?p=112797/
76•ibobev•3d ago•41 comments

Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's code

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/cisco-gives-27-year-old-engineer-unlimited-ai...
30•taubek•1h ago•35 comments

Herdr has released native app

https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app
299•cherioo•14h ago•195 comments

Commodore 1600 VICmodem

https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-1600-vicmodem/
23•ibobev•4d ago•11 comments

I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9BTbIGxLg
200•surprisetalk•2d ago•32 comments

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html
357•sandslash•17h ago•144 comments

Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal

https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm
200•nvmdbljstm•2d ago•22 comments

Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/artificial-analysis-v5-and-the-benchmarkers
51•6thbit•2d ago•32 comments

Lighthouses, War and a Puffling

https://adcochrane.wordpress.com/2026/10/29/lighthouses-war-and-a-puffling-the-isle-of-may/
12•aways•17h ago•0 comments

Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring OS/Hypervisor Experts in Europe

https://www.workatastartup.com/jobs/98722
1•syrusakbary•8h ago

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

https://sidbala.com/h-264-is-magic/
485•ea016•23h ago•159 comments

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer
255•airinei•18h ago•17 comments

Compile-Time Dependent Types

https://thenumb.at/Syl-Intro/
5•ibobev•3d ago•0 comments

Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80

https://cuis.st/
160•theanonymousone•3d ago•19 comments

Neal Stephenson on AI and What Comes Next [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii-aeW5pHPQ
14•justin66•1h ago•0 comments

LLM Voice

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html
546•ibobev•1d ago•292 comments

Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

https://github.com/mottopanikeiku/doomformer
119•falperc•16h ago•35 comments

Cormac McCarthy's Library

https://cormacmccarthy.lib.utk.edu/
89•maitland•14h ago•33 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
•
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.