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Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

https://nullpt.rs/fingerprinting-bioweapons
593•hazebooth•5h ago•133 comments

Gemini 4 Carbon

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/
719•acossta•5h ago•584 comments

CNC Stone Carving

https://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/
357•bschne•8h ago•110 comments

Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents

https://www.wired.com/story/massive-leak-exposes-41000-homeland-security-workers-including-underc...
183•Aboutplants•1h ago•63 comments

The case of the 9 bit AES key

https://v12.sh/blog/the-case-of-the-9bit-aes-key
45•ledoge•1h ago•15 comments

Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

https://surgehq.ai/blog/dayjob-tax
172•landonxi•7h ago•101 comments

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/proled-xdr-display/
448•etothet•5h ago•767 comments

The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand

https://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-grid
382•seddona•2d ago•189 comments

Start Doing Graph Theory

https://vertex.degree/
539•ibobev•5d ago•120 comments

Nango (YC W23) Is Hiring Across Eng, FDE, Marketing, DevRel

https://nango.dev/careers
1•bastienbeurier•1h ago

The tragedy of losing your Wikipedia page

https://www.wired.com/story/the-tragedy-of-losing-your-wikipedia-page/
25•tptacek•2d ago•37 comments

AlpineBSD

https://wiki.alpinebsd.org
153•bradley_taunt•8h ago•138 comments

Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer

https://formlabs.com/products/form-studio-1-basic-founders-edition/
61•mhb•1h ago•61 comments

Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-spiders-spin-silk-dope-into-natures-toughest-material-20261028/
34•ibobev•5h ago•1 comments

Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html
994•galadran•11h ago•373 comments

Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene

https://www.magnopus.com/blog/gaussiansplats-part-3-theres-always-a-bigger-scene
91•ibobev•5d ago•18 comments

The Agent SDK

https://cursor.com/blog/agent-sdk
84•torutofu•8h ago•103 comments

Show HN: SlideBySide – Present slides without sharing your screen

https://slidebyside.com/
48•denismenace•5h ago•21 comments

Rubber Duck I've Ever Had

https://blog.blockingqueue.com/the-best-rubber-duck-i-ve-ever-had
12•liviu31•2d ago•5 comments

Oseberg Tapestry Fragments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseberg_tapestry_fragments
13•benbreen•2d ago•0 comments

Emacs Turns 50

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/
378•internet_points•9h ago•161 comments

Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ground-effect-vehicle
41•rbanffy•3d ago•33 comments

Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign

https://paulfwalsh.substack.com/p/meta-censored-the-no-kings-instagram
169•slowin•6h ago•43 comments

Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI

https://religionnews.com/2026/10/26/in-a-first-a-humanist-granted-a-religious-exemption-from-usin...
396•danso•9h ago•440 comments

Scaling Hierarchical Networks

https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/from-tokens-to-bytes-part-1
12•guybedo•4h ago•0 comments

Leak website releases data on DHS employees

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/leak-website-releases-data-tens-thousands-dhs-employees-...
19•wondersky•2h ago•0 comments

Archive.today links going forward

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetoday_links_going_forward/
163•consumer451•7h ago•101 comments

The Style Is Father of the Man

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/11/benjamin-kunkel-reviews-cormac-mccarthy-legacy-revisted/
11•lermontov•4d ago•5 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages

https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/nemotron-transcribe-granary
96•wondersky•7h ago•17 comments

Executable Archaeology: Reanimating the Heuristic Compiler (1961) and KBEmacs (1984)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36341
15•abrax3141•20h ago•0 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.