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How the Military Will Hack the Election

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/how-the-military-will-hack-the-election
46•pavel_lishin•14m ago•5 comments

AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security basics

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-...
348•latexr•1h ago•153 comments

Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

https://go.dev/blog/http-connection-reuse
93•allddd•2h ago•16 comments

Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
607•otobrglez•10h ago•251 comments

Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland

https://dpa-international.com/politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:261014-930-839530/
6•ilamont•20m ago•1 comments

Submarine cable resilience

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/14/submarine-cable-resilience/
86•speckx•3h ago•21 comments

Neckbeard – a DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent

https://github.com/bealesh/neckbeard
13•bealesh•1h ago•2 comments

ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

https://prospect.org/2026/10/14/ice-planning-nightmare-domestic-spy-program-ero-one/
288•bhrlady•2h ago•120 comments

Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

https://github.com/timescale/pg_vectorsearch
154•jascha_eng•7h ago•43 comments

Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

https://startupfortune.com/banks-are-now-trying-to-offload-the-ai-data-center-debt-they-just-unde...
23•smartmic•25m ago•5 comments

LittleJS is 2D and 3D now

https://frankforce.com/littlejs-is-2d-and-3d-now/
39•dmit•1d ago•8 comments

Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/
125•Brajeshwar•2h ago•30 comments

Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet

https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/
585•sighborg•9h ago•526 comments

Show HN: Graphicle, a Rust port of Graphify with memory for coding agents

https://github.com/graphicle-ai/graphicle
29•KarLexAI•3h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free

https://petal.live/
6•thedracle•34m ago•2 comments

Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges

https://www.extremetech.com/cars/teslas-robotaxis-blow-through-school-zones-nhtsa-petition-alleges
56•speckx•2h ago•36 comments

Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs

https://www.qawolf.com/blog/how-we-solved-windows-desktop-automation
56•jadenlemmon•4h ago•24 comments

America Didn't Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/america-didn-t-lose-its-rare-earth-industry.-it-sold-it
24•speckx•1h ago•3 comments

Container ship sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/container-ship-sinks-strait-hormuz-as-iran-war-attacks.html
17•MilnerRoute•37m ago•0 comments

The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)

https://robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2024-01-21-gold-bug.html
50•ripe•2d ago•12 comments

Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series

https://lwn.net/Articles/1100449/
99•janvdberg•2h ago•59 comments

The Origin Story of Kid Pix

http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years
155•MBCook•1d ago•33 comments

US report details extent of 'devastating' dating-app scams

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/14/dating-app-scams-us-congress
35•PaulHoule•1h ago•30 comments

TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material

https://swedenherald.com/article/tv4-postpones-the-challenge-until-2027-after-technical-failure-e...
118•tobr•8h ago•68 comments

Sound (2022)

https://ciechanow.ski/sound/
258•dverlaeckt80•3d ago•30 comments

Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder?

https://brooker.co.za:443/blog/2026/10/04/encoders.html
20•surprisetalk•4h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox

https://clova.email/
18•edpin2000•1h ago•7 comments

Scientists Are Teaching Birds to Sing Lost Songs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/teaching-birds-lost-songs
28•speckx•5h ago•2 comments

Has AI Tells

https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/10/14/has-ai-tells.html?focus=1
42•7777777phil•2h ago•37 comments

Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256

https://dfarq.homeip.net/nvidias-first-gpu-geforce-256/
41•ibobev•6h ago•23 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.