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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

https://swarmtraces.org/
278•specked-citrus•6h ago•168 comments

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

https://ollaya.dev/
364•Ardakilic•9h ago•103 comments

Plan mode is dead

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead...
154•jmvldz•23h ago•154 comments

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

https://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/
169•pancomplex•13h ago•74 comments

What even is an OS now?

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/
111•fratellobigio•6h ago•199 comments

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/
6•srcreigh•1h ago•0 comments

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-liable-deceiving-users-cambridge-analytica/
90•pseudolus•2h ago•13 comments

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-select-distinct-does-not-scale
16•KraftyOne•1d ago•3 comments

One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

https://www.jezebel.com/flock-cameras-data-innocent-woman-arrested-lindsey-isaacs-palm-beach-flor...
72•HotGarbage•2h ago•23 comments

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/put-multiple-values-in-one-cell-...
119•luispa•6h ago•91 comments

Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seems-holographic-what-does-that-mean-for-reality-20260925/
133•ibobev•12h ago•143 comments

Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about

https://hackeratlas.com/
24•andrearitossa•14h ago•6 comments

Remembering Johannes Doerfert

https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2026-09-24-rememberingjohannesdoerfert/
65•sdko•1d ago•2 comments

Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles

https://adekau.github.io/posts/2020/llamas.html
9•cebert•1d ago•0 comments

First Principles Thinking

https://sunilsadasivan.com/writing/first-principles-thinking/
232•sunils34•13h ago•102 comments

I wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck

https://epestr.com/blog/writing-a-ray-tracer-in-brainfuck/
44•epestr•17h ago•12 comments

U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.html
409•cramer4next•12h ago•723 comments

Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin

https://spectrum.ieee.org/serotonin-stress-smart-contact-lens
17•marc__1•5h ago•4 comments

Why didn't anybody tell me about Redis hash slots?

https://blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.dev/posts/2026/09/23/why-didnt-anybody-tell-me-about-hash-s...
30•badrequest•2d ago•8 comments

TiddlyInstall: A universal, reusable, install system

https://robertsdotpm.github.io/_static/tiddlyinstall.html
6•Uptrenda•3h ago•6 comments

Two and a half years without a gallbladder

https://tracydurnell.com/2026/09/16/two-and-a-half-years-without-a-gallbladder/
4•surprisetalk•1d ago•5 comments

How video games inspire great UX (2019)

https://jenson.org/games/
106•andsoitis•5d ago•16 comments

Show HN: A game about fake news and memes

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9•azermite•3h ago•7 comments

How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance

https://fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-campus-surveillance/
143•cdrnsf•7h ago•86 comments

Show HN: Make math automatic with Mathy

https://gmays.com/making-math-automatic-with-mathy/
79•gmays•4d ago•22 comments

An airport cooled by natural ventilation

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/25/didnt-need-air-conditioning-airport-cooled-na...
54•Geekette•17h ago•30 comments

What happens when you analyze your favorite college football team like the CIA?

https://www.cultivatelabs.com/posts/what-happens-when-you-analyze-college-football-like-the-cia
46•adam•14h ago•25 comments

Show HN: Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)

https://www.gptbeyond.com/try?home=1
9•kdautaj•6h ago•2 comments

Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-25/microsoft-abandons-personal-ai-chatbot-race-wi...
92•sbulaev•13h ago•85 comments

Platform-independent SIMD in Go

https://go.dev/blog/simd-experiment
370•yurivish•16h ago•137 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.