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John Carmack on the mistakes around Quake that ruined id software

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2069799283369345247
300•shadowtree•1h ago•139 comments

RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers

https://rubyllm.com/
211•doener•3h ago•25 comments

For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward

https://techstrong.ai/articles/for-most-of-the-world-open-source-ai-is-the-only-way-forward/
89•CrankyBear•3h ago•51 comments

We’re making Bunny DNS free

https://bunny.net/blog/were-making-bunny-dns-free/
673•dabinat•9h ago•216 comments

CAPTCHAs have failed for 20 years

https://www.browserbase.com/blog/why-captchas-are-getting-harder
45•harsehaj•1h ago•35 comments

The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

https://blog.omgmog.net/post/xteink-x4-e-ink-reader/
33•felixdoerp•1h ago•8 comments

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip

https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip/
137•meetpateltech•4h ago•53 comments

Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-computer-use-...
19•swolpers•33m ago•2 comments

I taught a bucket to speak Git

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/objgit/
34•xena•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js

https://github.com/nubjs/nub
120•colinmcd•3h ago•29 comments

NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/politics/nsa-lost-access-anthropic-tool.html
9•thm•6h ago•0 comments

Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report
199•mattnewton•1d ago•24 comments

Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine

https://astral-os.org/posts/2026/04/03/wine-on-astral.html
51•avaliosdev•3h ago•18 comments

Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis

https://svpow.com/2026/06/04/genuinely-my-all-time-favourite-image-mamenchisaurus-hochuanensis/
51•surprisetalk•2d ago•17 comments

PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s

https://www.greptile.com/blog/prs-on-openclaw
48•dakshgupta•3h ago•40 comments

Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives

https://www.monolisa.dev/
99•bebraw•2d ago•20 comments

A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/ssh-tunnels
165•signa11•4d ago•33 comments

Boffin claims Microsoft's "quantum leap" is invalid due to "basic Python errors"

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/06/24/boffin-claims-microsofts-supposed-quantum-leap-do...
85•connorboyle•2h ago•35 comments

Show HN: Pure Effect – Reproduce production bugs on your laptop without a DB

https://pure-effect.org
38•tie-in•3d ago•8 comments

Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser

https://github.com/NotASithLord/peerd
22•NotASithLord•1d ago•10 comments

Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG

https://haystack.deepset.ai/
67•doener•6h ago•20 comments

Pull request limits are cutting down the noise

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/how-pull-request-limits-are-cutting-down-the-noise/
11•ingve•5d ago•2 comments

Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice

https://paolino.me/founding-a-company-in-germany/
464•earcar•5h ago•543 comments

Edsger Dijkstra's Library (Housed and Archived in Leuven, Belgium)

https://www.dijkstrascry.com/inventory
22•rramadass•2h ago•4 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

https://gitlab.com/baiyibai/pico-usb-wifi
231•byb•14h ago•110 comments

Systems optimization should be part of CI/CD

https://ucbskyadrs.github.io/blog/levi/
21•ttanv•4h ago•2 comments

Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself

https://werd.io/journalism-is-rearranging-the-deckchairs-it-needs-to-reinvent-itself/
7•benwerd•2h ago•3 comments

Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMEA Engineers Who Can Design

https://www.ashbyhq.com/careers?ashby_jid=87b96eef-edc1-4de4-adb6-d460126d02f8&utm_source=hn
1•abhikp•10h ago

Statistics that live in your SQL

https://kolistat.com/blog/the-stats-duck-v0-6-0/
113•caerbannogwhite•2d ago•15 comments

François Englert (1932 – 2026)

https://home.cern/francois-englert-1932-2026/
54•toomuchtodo•3d ago•3 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.