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Small Programming Tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/
113•signa11•1h ago•70 comments

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858
111•bananaflag•4h ago•33 comments

Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/
391•vertigoruntime•9h ago•137 comments

Introducing System One Models and Jev

https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev
1725•albelfio•22h ago•461 comments

Tell the speakers that you liked their talks

https://ohhelloana.blog/tell-the-speakers/
127•whisper2020•1d ago•33 comments

Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

https://claude.com/blog/cowork-is-now-claude
68•vertigoruntime•1h ago•81 comments

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme
1891•arnemunthekaas•1d ago•223 comments

How big are factorials?

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/how-big-are-factorials/
39•ibobev•1d ago•14 comments

Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography

https://security.apple.com/blog/apple-reference-image/
444•imwally•15h ago•293 comments

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/
300•driverdan•4h ago•143 comments

Can we stop with the uptime percentages?

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/stop-with-the-uptime-percentage/
67•surprisetalk•2h ago•57 comments

The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week

https://gultsch.social/@daniel/117280438824908947
276•inputmice•6h ago•257 comments

The DeepMind Institute

https://institute.deepmind.com/
27•vertigoruntime•3h ago•4 comments

This Code Is CRAP (2011)

https://testing.googleblog.com/2011/02/this-code-is-crap.html
52•luispa•1h ago•39 comments

Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go

https://www.cloudx.ai/posts/setup-go
51•peterldowns•4h ago•6 comments

Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models

https://stale.jock.pl/
38•joozio•4h ago•25 comments

An update on Wayback Machine access

https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/an-update-on-wayback-machine-access/
654•ChrisArchitect•23h ago•339 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/eturrAR-forward-deployed-engineer
1•asontha•5h ago

Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/26-year-old-sony-ps2-security-chip-broken-wi...
199•rbanffy•6h ago•57 comments

Prisma's pgbouncer=true on Supabase made every query 4 round-trips (postmortem)

https://blog.simbastack.com/four-round-trips-six-months/
6•asenna•1d ago•4 comments

Measuring Gauss-Seidel loop-carried dependency and fixing it via loop unrolling

https://loiseaujc.github.io/posts/blog-title/make_gauss_seidel_great_again.html
18•loiseaujc•1d ago•4 comments

The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Scythian World

https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/the-siberian-ice-maiden-and-the-scythian
4•NaOH•22h ago•0 comments

Salesforce Global Outage

https://status.salesforce.com/products/all
232•mabil•7h ago•135 comments

Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

https://inflightsimulator.com
343•rkotcher•2d ago•191 comments

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-gemini-3-...
474•leumon•1d ago•314 comments

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes

https://dank.systems/posts/2026-09-15-ai-bear.html
402•jaykru•1d ago•513 comments

Doing Everyone Else's Job

https://yosefk.com/blog/doing-everyone-elses-job.html
177•luu•1d ago•84 comments

Anatomy of a Texture

https://agentlien.github.io/texture/
25•Agentlien•3h ago•4 comments

Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07885
136•pythonic_hell•2d ago•46 comments

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model

https://enclave.ai/blog/deepseek-v41-flash-is-now-our-best-hacking-model
118•talhof8•5h ago•45 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.