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We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself

https://bunny.net/blog/were-making-bunny-dns-free/
63•dabinat•1h ago•19 comments

Vulnerability reports are not special anymore

https://words.filippo.io/vuln-reports/
281•goranmoomin•10h ago•152 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

https://gitlab.com/baiyibai/pico-usb-wifi
140•byb•6h ago•46 comments

Jerry's Map

http://www.jerrysmap.com/the-map
473•turtleyacht•15h ago•54 comments

Why eval startups fail (2025)

https://thomasliao.com/eval-startups
21•jxmorris12•1d ago•17 comments

Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine

https://glyphcss.com
133•apresmoi•3d ago•39 comments

In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260622-00/?p=112451
378•saikatsg•15h ago•64 comments

FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

https://swipe.futo.tech/
544•futohq•16h ago•175 comments

Grok Build 0.1: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/grok-build-0-1-06-16
10•himata4113•1h ago•3 comments

Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24597
107•ilreb•7h ago•29 comments

"Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds

https://gist.github.com/retroplasma/ec21767d0a8380c7ea9c2fbee1c7d6bf
101•retroplasma•7h ago•38 comments

Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring EMEA Engineers Who Can Design

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1•abhikp•3h ago

Printing Gaussian Splats

https://www.patreon.com/DanyBittel/posts/printing-splats-161333338
311•ilnmtlbnm•2d ago•32 comments

Remaking BBC test cards to teach you video processing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_6HxPkrgcg
40•unleaded•2d ago•1 comments

Rhombus Language 1.0

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/06/rhombus-v1.0.html
167•Decabytes•1d ago•44 comments

Swift Package Index joins Apple

https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/swift-package-index-joins-apple
207•JDevlieghere•16h ago•69 comments

Usbliter8: an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit

https://ps.tc/pages/blog-usbliter8.html
142•givinguflac•5d ago•29 comments

Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

https://tikz.dev/editor/
393•DominikPeters•19h ago•72 comments

Vector Graphics in Lil

http://beyondloom.com/blog/vectorgraphics.html
5•RodgerTheGreat•1d ago•0 comments

A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

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177•mauvehaus•1d ago•113 comments

The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated

https://dynomight.net/vitamin-d/
298•surprisetalk•17h ago•213 comments

Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine

https://dirtylittlezine.com/
125•cianmm•3d ago•19 comments

Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

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161•Jimmc414•3d ago•56 comments

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-employee-tracking-program-following-internal-security-bre...
248•1vuio0pswjnm7•9h ago•173 comments

Lithp.py (~2008)

https://fogus.me/fun/lithp/
25•wglb•2d ago•4 comments

The Teensy Executable Revisited

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/revisit.html
38•ankitg12•7h ago•3 comments

Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time

https://www.patrickdomanico.com/bpm/2026/06/16/inventing-the-future-one-lisp-machine-at-a-time/
103•pamoroso•1d ago•14 comments

F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/ffs
74•neogoose•2d ago•41 comments

Show HN: Graphical SQL Builder and Debugger

https://github.com/webofmarius/SQLJoiner
10•matei88•2d ago•4 comments

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI

https://twitter.com/JPoehnelt/status/2069482265953087602
543•justinwp•15h ago•314 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.