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SimCity, but with Permits

https://permit.petercai.com/
453•pcai•5h ago•248 comments

Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/feds-suspect-ransom-negotiator-ran-shinyhunters-extortion-site/
32•Bender•1h ago•1 comments

DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepInfer
2090•ggcr•14h ago•814 comments

Voxtral 3

https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-3/
484•ilreb•7h ago•133 comments

What shall I teach my son?

https://stevekrouse.com/ends
208•Curiositry•6h ago•280 comments

Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs

https://github.com/google-pytorch/torch_tpu
235•ilreb•6h ago•56 comments

SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarki...
131•dhorthy•5d ago•56 comments

The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines

https://www.thebeliever.net/the-other-epidemic/
13•gaplong•30m ago•3 comments

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

https://teddysvoronos.com/2026-10-19-apple-broke-an-essential-presentation-feature-of-ipads/
469•evanb•11h ago•245 comments

Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/10/19/academics-have-a-duty-to-defend-open-kn...
69•jruohonen•4h ago•25 comments

Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case

https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/10/20/ofcom-concedes-defeat/
305•iamnothere•9h ago•208 comments

EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
566•galadran•9h ago•299 comments

Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/deepwater-horizon-deep-sea-recovery
156•speckx•7h ago•98 comments

Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcWkApGjyGM
23•jackdoe•2d ago•3 comments

Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust

https://blog.cloudflare.com/typescript-rust-port/
333•hnisjafx40•10h ago•148 comments

Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins

https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-scorpion-toxin-binder-design
86•artninja1988•5h ago•53 comments

Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-cloud-outage-takes-down-hsbc-revolut-bank-of-scotland-llyods-e...
311•paweladamczuk•13h ago•164 comments

How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed

https://kaba.cx/posts/20261020_Tor/
303•kabakabakaba•9h ago•73 comments

IKEA – 3D Guide

https://sael.net/flatpack/
127•punnerud•7h ago•39 comments

Meta's GB{2,3}00 Cluster

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/10/19/data-center-engineering/inside-prometheus-meta-gigawatt-sca...
50•stokedmartin•1d ago•21 comments

Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins

40•Andydy25•8h ago•16 comments

MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki
375•theanonymousone•16h ago•91 comments

My Friend Bob Cringely

https://tyma.com/my-cringe-story/
156•zinxq•9h ago•43 comments

JAXA is about to perform a Phobos sample return mission

https://www.science.org/content/article/audacious-space-heist-japan-aims-bring-home-bits-martian-...
81•Muhammad523•2d ago•14 comments

'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs

https://flatwaterfreepress.org/der-viener-schlinger-the-meat-cannon-that-launched-20000-hot-dogs/
84•NaOH•1d ago•51 comments

Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@AshleyGullen/117473851565913919
401•AshleysBrain•8h ago•362 comments

2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)

https://yoyo-code.com/2026-is-exciting-year-for-rust-compiler-and-me/
147•panstromek•9h ago•68 comments

Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2

https://jepsen.io/analyses/orkes-conductor-5.3.2
49•aphyr•10h ago•2 comments

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hazel-2/jobs/PpNKYBS-full-stack-engineer-ts-sci
1•augustschen•11h ago

Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs

https://peec.ai/blog/publish-stats-get-cited-the-tactic-that-put-my-data-all-over-the-web
313•robtherobber•10h ago•179 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.