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hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/7.html
96•zdw•2h ago•30 comments

Scrap

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491
139•tosh•3h ago•52 comments

NetBSD and My Life (2005)

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/09/10/0000.html
51•gnyeki•2h ago•10 comments

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

https://quantumi.sh/public/labs.html
252•jemoka•6h ago•83 comments

Knowing When to Stop: The Art of Making a Loop Converge

https://a16z.com/knowing-when-to-stop-the-art-of-making-a-loop-converge/
13•gmays•51m ago•3 comments

Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

https://hister.org/
149•auraham•4d ago•50 comments

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917
35•felineflock•2h ago•12 comments

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

https://geometridae.bearblog.dev/a-friendly-introduction-to-racket/
115•signa11•7h ago•52 comments

ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data

https://atproto.com/blog/atproto-spaces-alpha
62•grappler•2d ago•9 comments

typ.ing

https://typ.ing/
97•bookofjoe•4d ago•34 comments

RF Cafe

https://www.rfcafe.com/
86•gregsadetsky•3d ago•10 comments

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

https://www.reuters.com/world/how-texas-student-blew-whistle-rogue-ai-hacking-attempt-2026-08-20/
58•olalonde•1d ago•6 comments

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvyy4x2mvo
307•tartoran•14h ago•982 comments

Fast and Hard Code

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/22/fast-hard-code/
6•lumpa•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

https://www.soverybright.com/
31•telecuda•2h ago•36 comments

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

https://munderdiffl.in/
230•simonpure•11h ago•105 comments

One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/20/we-couldnt-reproduce-their-findings-and-realize...
33•paulpauper•1d ago•2 comments

Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture

https://www.mythic.ai
35•janandonly•4d ago•9 comments

Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree

https://nautil.us/why-it-might-be-time-to-rethink-the-human-family-tree-1283985
37•Anon84•2d ago•23 comments

Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal

https://terminal-code.com
39•robpruzan•3d ago•13 comments

MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS

https://github.com/ofdryads/miniageOS
30•ashenke•2d ago•19 comments

The Creation of Abulafia

https://blog.veitheller.de/abulafia.html
24•saulpw•1d ago•4 comments

Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/mi/2021/06/09623402/1yJTvlRLmhi
103•asdefghyk•11h ago•50 comments

English ↔ Claudish Translator

https://programasweights.com/claudish
11•leumon•1h ago•9 comments

Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked

https://sgoedecke.github.io/watermark-quiz/
33•gfysfm•2d ago•40 comments

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

https://twitter.com/argofowl/status/2091150597374537729
106•matthieu_bl•4h ago•115 comments

Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/22/europe/prince-belgium-secret-son-scli-intl
79•MilnerRoute•4h ago•55 comments

New MCP Roadmap

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/
155•pentagrama•7h ago•118 comments

Ameliorate

https://ameliorate.app/
75•hakkikonu•2d ago•20 comments

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/hello-world/
384•matklad•1d ago•92 comments
Open in hackernews

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.