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Muse Spark Open

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open
541•bigwheels•5h ago•305 comments

What I Self-Host

https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/
138•BrunoBernardino•2h ago•64 comments

Neural networks are clean

https://already-clean.goodfire.com/
437•themgt•6h ago•160 comments

Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr

https://thereallo.dev/blog/someone-on-torrent-sites-kept-fucking-with-my-sonarr-setup
139•speckx•3h ago•59 comments

Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

https://github.com/fyzugx/DEsk
459•FinalDestiny•9h ago•182 comments

Jev meets the Trolley Problem

https://zachlandes.com/trolley-problem/
234•zlandes86•6h ago•108 comments

Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale

https://www.krea.ai/krea-3
225•dvrp•6h ago•73 comments

AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware

https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/
343•jcomp•12h ago•505 comments

Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran

https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/09-15-Fortran-birthday/
195•rbanffy•7h ago•88 comments

E Ink Kaleido 4

https://www.eink.com/news/detail/EInk-Launches-Latest-Version-of-Color-ePaper-Platform-E-Ink-Kale...
103•Perroboc•4h ago•62 comments

The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/hawaii-volcanoes-park-great-crack-22358849.php
19•elsewhen•1d ago•6 comments

Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)

https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
88•GaryBluto•1d ago•31 comments

Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary

https://www.seriouseats.com/biscoff-history-12168161
156•mhb•1d ago•134 comments

Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot2610.html
241•iamnothere•10h ago•138 comments

New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing

https://support.withings.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/51887047154577-Unacceptable-Apple-Health-Sy...
113•johnbehnke•2h ago•99 comments

The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend

https://www.theautopian.com/you-wont-believe-the-incredible-engineering-that-allows-articulated-b...
52•CharlesW•21h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land

https://unfenced.land/
242•otherwatersflow•11h ago•164 comments

Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/10/15/aiandreverseengineerhardware/
75•ErenayDev•8h ago•85 comments

Rediscovering the Romance of Travel Clocks

https://www.acollectedman.com/blogs/journal/rediscovering-travel-clocks
24•austinallegro•3d ago•5 comments

Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/news/simons-foundation-launches-15m-effort-to-help-mathematician...
213•aaraujo002•7h ago•174 comments

Show HN: Flipflop – Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing

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102•andunie•18h ago•59 comments

An Apology

https://www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/an-apology
91•cdrnsf•18h ago•109 comments

Show HN: Proa – A Rust web framework with fast SSR and multi-target rendering

https://proa.so/
76•burnrate•7h ago•16 comments

Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit

https://blog.dfb.sh/blog/eap770-root-for-two-zeros/
336•0xdeafbeef•2d ago•166 comments

Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher

https://respawnfirst.com/steam-client-is-now-faster-than-epics-new-vibe-coded-launcher/
252•starkparker•6h ago•259 comments

C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions

https://www.cppstories.com/2026/cpp26_contracts/
119•ibobev•9h ago•110 comments

I know why the mathematicians weep

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/i-know-why-the-mathematicians-weep
325•RickJWagner•9h ago•529 comments

Game of Life – But Multiplayer, Hypermedia and Python

https://stario.dev/apps/life
41•bobowski•1d ago•17 comments

Prompt injection in HTTP headers: what 217M web responses show

https://www.signalscorps.com/blog/prompt-injection-in-http-headers/
78•panoramas4good•8h ago•16 comments

Things to know when you get cancer

https://jjmaxwell4.com/writing/things-to-know-when-you-get-cancer/
1842•jjmaxwell4•1d ago•442 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
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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.