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Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\
1089•Philpax•5h ago•707 comments

Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/
394•solarist•8h ago•124 comments

Release of Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/release-polars-2/
306•simicd•6h ago•59 comments

JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history

https://www.helgilibrary.com/companies/jetbrains
528•thw_9a83c•6h ago•483 comments

Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol

https://mihai.dinculescu.dev/posts/tapo-speaks-tpap/
92•faithraven•4h ago•33 comments

AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware

https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU
128•fsbonetto•2h ago•103 comments

Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust

https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
75•bigwheels•1h ago•31 comments

Benchmark in Milliseconds

https://matklad.github.io/2026/10/05/benchmark-milliseconds.html
79•surprisetalk•1d ago•17 comments

Ask a model if code is malicious and it reaches for its morals

https://www.manifold.security/blog/do-models-consider-morality-malware
10•codyznash•1h ago•1 comments

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

https://gleam.run/news/gleam-doesnt-compile-to-erlang-source-anymore/
220•ingve•10h ago•94 comments

Mathematics of Geothermal Energy

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/power-and-energy/mathematics-geothermal-energy/
48•srameshc•5h ago•17 comments

Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/06/metas-muse-is-an-adorable-privacy-and-security-dumpster-fire/
303•beardyw•5h ago•205 comments

Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer

https://peterszentkiralyi.eu/darkplug/
25•pentakkusu•4h ago•2 comments

I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity

https://ajmoon.com/posts/im-the-agi-thats-wiping-out-humanity-heres-how
62•alex-moon•7h ago•11 comments

Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06783
37•mauriziocalo•5h ago•17 comments

Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-nature-capacity-species-lost-vastly.html
234•pseudolus•7h ago•113 comments

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
519•Philpax•23h ago•164 comments

Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min

https://www.parseable.com
49•yashdotrv•4h ago•10 comments

Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/former-german-spy-chief-detained-suspicion-espionage-tre...
26•semiquaver•1h ago•10 comments

The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
62•_reza•3h ago•18 comments

California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole

https://www.thedrive.com/news/heres-how-california-closed-the-montana-license-plate-loophole
14•speckx•1h ago•5 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
255•E-Reverance•21h ago•69 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
276•ishan0102•20h ago•95 comments

World's First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/worlds-first-enhanced-geothermal-power-plant-completed-in-just-...
126•hochmartinez•6h ago•49 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
279•ibobev•20h ago•195 comments

Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror

https://www.tdk.com/en/news_center/press/20261002_01.html
100•bookofjoe•3d ago•42 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
455•outlier99•21h ago•308 comments

Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
195•walrus01•2d ago•106 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
276•vinhnx•3d ago•69 comments

The complement of true is true, except when it's false

https://dryperspective.github.io/posts/complement-of-true/
57•aw1621107•2d ago•19 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.