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Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'

https://efe.com/english/latest-news/2026-10-20/lula-supporters-protest-against-meta-to-denounce-i...
180•jumpocelot•2h ago•86 comments

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f
400•jtg•10h ago•172 comments

Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD

https://trial.medpath.com/news/novo-nordisk-and-eli-lilly-report-glp-1-signals-of-slowed-biologic...
22•hnburnsy•1h ago•8 comments

I built a drone with only one motor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndftcft6XhU
421•hakonjdjohnsen•17h ago•91 comments

WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator

https://redact.dev/blog/whatsapp-help-pages-hidden-ai-instructions
65•ds•3h ago•9 comments

Wine ported to OpenBSD

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=179236125692175
518•iamnothere•13h ago•174 comments

Weball: Play Katamari on Websites

https://www.funwithcomputervision.com/weball/
91•croes•1d ago•6 comments

OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18

https://bsd.network/@brynet/117407035545900963
105•doener•5h ago•24 comments

It's still ok to enjoy programming

https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming
474•goostavos•2d ago•438 comments

RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNm4zyUtWj0
167•evakhoury•2d ago•64 comments

Android apps running native on macOS

https://github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk
274•flocked•10h ago•144 comments

The ovary doesn't retire after menopause

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/10/the-ovary-doesnt-retire-after-menopause?fj=1&utm_so...
32•gmays•1d ago•4 comments

Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-first-drone-evacuation-wounded-soldier-frontlines-h...
146•yzydserd•11h ago•115 comments

One Hash Bloom Filters

https://calabro.io/ohbf
61•jcalabro•6h ago•8 comments

An ad-free Android TV

https://cretezy.com/2026/ad-free-android-tv
46•CraftThatBlock•4h ago•13 comments

Putting Linux on my RTX Spark laptop because I don't have a Microsoft account

https://josie.lol/blog/linux-rtx-spark
195•pfeifferj•5h ago•90 comments

How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-fungi-keep-the-planet-healthy-20261015/
9•marojejian•2d ago•1 comments

What If Video Games Came on VHS? One Modder Is Finding Out

https://gardinerbryant.com/what-if-video-games-came-on-vhs/
13•Kate0CoolLibby•2d ago•5 comments

Starcraft: Ashfall

https://starcraft-shooter-2026.pages.dev/
343•debo_•1d ago•112 comments

Developing Taste

https://emilkowal.ski/ui/developing-taste
7•cat-whisperer•1h ago•7 comments

“bonsoir, Elliot”: How abliterated models can get you pwned

https://projectdiscovery.io/research/how-abliterated-models-can-get-you-pwned
45•chatmasta•3h ago•25 comments

Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

292•rzk•15h ago•436 comments

The fire retardant in the seafood chain

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14102026/ethoxyquin-fire-retardant-in-seafood-chain/
119•gumby•2d ago•36 comments

Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off

https://spectrum.ieee.org/alternatives-to-animal-testing
324•rbanffy•15h ago•97 comments

Evidence (YC S21) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://evidence.dev/jobs
1•hughess•9h ago

France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months

https://ipinfo.io/blog/france-fridges-hack
66•emot•3h ago•64 comments

The End of Rationing

https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/end-of-rationing
33•sanketsaurav•7h ago•31 comments

OpenBSD 8.0: released Oct 20, 2026

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=179245849770356&w=2
8•erikschoster•1h ago•1 comments

Agentic Monitoring

https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2026/10/19/Agentic-Monitoring/
55•bcongdon•12h ago•3 comments

Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer

http://www.boredhackerblog.info/2026/10/plex-vulnerabilities-being-exploited-in.html
163•mindracer•13h ago•82 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
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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.