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Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
489•speckx•6h ago•276 comments

Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
140•navs•4h ago•54 comments

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals
33•surprisetalk•46m ago•15 comments

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/
414•tomzorz•7h ago•145 comments

I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

https://geospatialml.com/posts/reviewing-ai-slop/
31•volumes94•1h ago•2 comments

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
453•ai2027•8h ago•384 comments

Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

https://rune.build/blog/rune-1-1-release
29•ernestrc•1h ago•8 comments

CodePen 2.0

https://chriscoyier.net/2026/07/30/codepen-2-0/
113•robin_reala•5h ago•35 comments

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-...
683•dickfickling•5h ago•387 comments

Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/
164•ibobev•8h ago•88 comments

Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal

https://github.com/MemoireMorte/Memo-1
46•sciences44•2d ago•5 comments

2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026

https://obryant.dev/p/2x-not-10x/
191•tnisonoff•5d ago•140 comments

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/
467•tedsanders•6h ago•299 comments

Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

https://www.ctgt.ai/research/distillation-censorship-transfer
75•cgorlla•5h ago•50 comments

Bad Apple but It's Traceroute

https://jssfr.de/2026-07-27-bad-apple-but-traceroute.html
42•jssfr•3d ago•8 comments

Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/google-play-age-signals-api-safer-experiences.html
334•dmantis•13h ago•412 comments

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html
181•javaeeeee•8h ago•77 comments

We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-businesses
270•Areibman•6h ago•166 comments

Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct

https://www.science.org/content/article/saber-toothed-cats-became-inbred-and-struggled-move-they-...
15•gmays•2h ago•1 comments

Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rise-reforming/jobs/wJ9Q9nv-senior-chemical-process-engineer
1•george_rose25•6h ago

Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite

https://kedge.dev/
82•wgjordan•1d ago•15 comments

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/
229•arto•12h ago•263 comments

Making Postgres queues scale

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/making-postgres-queues-scale
96•KraftyOne•5h ago•21 comments

Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-everyone-trying-to-build-a
163•crescit_eundo•11h ago•193 comments

Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels

https://phulin.me/blog/poker/
39•patrickhulin•8h ago•13 comments

Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

https://www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm
170•ryannevius•10h ago•42 comments

Hacker Public Radio

https://hackerpublicradio.org/
121•bmacho•9h ago•23 comments

The lost civic life of movie rental stores

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civic-life-of-movie-rental-stores/
106•facundo_olano•9h ago•147 comments

Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

https://prized.dev
64•marinoseliades•10h ago•44 comments

Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-reveals-why-dna-damage-from-smoking-and-uv-rays-may-cau...
85•gmays•9h ago•95 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.