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Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode

https://scottwillsey.com/building-and-shipping-mac-and-ios-apps-without-ever-opening-xcode/
198•speckx•4h ago•88 comments

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

https://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html
381•get-inscribe•6h ago•163 comments

Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU

https://github.com/Poseidon-fan/linux-0.11-rs
53•arto•2h ago•34 comments

Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser

https://github.com/marcelpanse/youtube-guitar-tab-parser
40•neogenix•2h ago•26 comments

The real prices of frontier models. Tokens * Price, right?

https://playcode.io/blog/real-price-of-frontier-models
125•ianberdin•4h ago•59 comments

Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?

https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-on-32x/
68•cakehonolulu•4h ago•14 comments

Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it

https://werd.io/climate-gov-was-destroyed-open-data-saved-it/
320•benwerd•2h ago•124 comments

The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

https://fabiensanglard.net/silpheed/index.html
191•ibobev•7h ago•37 comments

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF)

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/SalesPatriot/df223727-5781-433e-bc75-2aa5bf8dc8d7
1•maciejSz•1h ago

Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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190•Tiberium•2h ago•101 comments

Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training

https://neow.in/cWsyMTV3
175•bundie•2h ago•51 comments

TFTP Honey Pot Results

https://bruceediger.com/posts/tftp-honeypot-results/
39•speckx•3h ago•13 comments

Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL

https://github.com/xqlsystems/xarray-sql/blob/claude/xarray-sql-mnist-demo/benchmarks/nn.py
37•alxmrs•2h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code

https://github.com/jbwinters/jacquard-lang
19•jbwinters•6h ago•8 comments

Ancient Roman Board Game

https://ludus-coriovalli.web.app/
69•nobody9999•4d ago•31 comments

The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers

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22•panic•2d ago•2 comments

The 4-Bitter Lesson: Balancing Stability and Performance in NVFP4 RL

https://humansand.ai/blog/nvfp4-rl
15•Areibman•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nobie – an Excel-compatible runtime for agents and humans

https://nobie.com
57•matthewgapp•4h ago•21 comments

The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/meta-social-media-teenagers-22337724.php
23•Stratoscope•3h ago•41 comments

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

https://jivx.com/densha
322•momentmaker•11h ago•60 comments

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41•mtw14•4h ago•18 comments

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14•zasc•2h ago•5 comments

Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads

https://esologic.com/benchmarking-tesla-gpus/
95•eso_logic•8h ago•43 comments

Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)

https://github.com/floodtide/dom-docx
130•fishbone•10h ago•30 comments

Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise

https://github.com/mathaix/OpenClawMachines
19•mathaix•4h ago•20 comments

Robust Secret Storage in Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30261
5•Anon84•5d ago•0 comments

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-...
412•forks•7h ago•332 comments

Tune Code Before Your Garbage Collector

http://blog.vanillajava.blog/2026/06/why-you-should-tun-code-before-your.html
36•peter_lawrey•5d ago•28 comments

Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-07-13/Special_report
84•hn_acker•6h ago•68 comments

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/
386•ranger_danger•5d ago•187 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.