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DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
434•theanonymousone•6h ago•212 comments

Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/making-chicken-transparent-using
38•crescit_eundo•1h ago•11 comments

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time – pv magazine Global

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/29/solar-surpasses-nuclear-power-globally-for-first-time/
96•xbmcuser•1h ago•43 comments

Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game

https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2026/10/12/around-the-world-34-a-pretty-sky/
31•ibobev•1d ago•1 comments

The First Candid

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/10/19/the-first-candid
15•Thevet•21h ago•2 comments

Ultramarine 1 Flash

https://www.paperinstruments.com/ultramarine
320•i_rush_carriers•1d ago•100 comments

Tesla Roadster

https://www.tesla.com/roadster
1528•shekhar101•1d ago•2784 comments

Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

https://llmspeed.dev/
168•albinstman•10h ago•54 comments

A Tudor Life in the Time of Plague

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/tudor-life-time-plague
4•pepys•3d ago•0 comments

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
311•theykk•6h ago•121 comments

Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser

https://github.com/mikroverk/esp32sim
5•joakimeriksson•1h ago•0 comments

Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

https://github.com/cobanov/PS5LM
329•Anon84•20h ago•79 comments

You could have invented transformers from memory

https://alexwang.ai/posts/associative-memory/
383•speckx•20h ago•89 comments

MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood

https://www.engadget.com/2288729/mapquest-will-now-show-you-where-flock-cameras-are-in-your-neigh...
47•bookofjoe•4h ago•6 comments

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins
953•ahlCVA•20h ago•343 comments

Recipes Are Moving from Maven Central to the Code Genome Project

https://docs.openrewrite.org/reference/latest-versions-of-every-openrewrite-module
31•javahippie•2d ago•6 comments

The cryptoint library (2025) [pdf]

https://cr.yp.to/papers/cryptoint-20250424.pdf
12•akkartik•2d ago•0 comments

FLUX 3 Image Klein

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-image-klein
188•gmays•19h ago•55 comments

Intuitive concurrent programming in any language

https://www.lf-lang.org/
92•mpweiher•2d ago•23 comments

Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/mlx-distributed-inference
337•antipaul•1d ago•170 comments

eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

https://www.arrl.org/arrlletterissue?issue=2026-10-15#eBay-Restricts-Listings-of-Radio-Equipment_...
245•7402•21h ago•219 comments

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

https://jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl-vs-avif/
293•farlight•22h ago•193 comments

Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/designing-efficient-quantum-circuits
158•pretext•21h ago•33 comments

The future of programming – A.I. Wasserman and S. Gutz (1982)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358453.358459
4•vismit2000•3h ago•0 comments

0/1 Knapsack Problem in PyTorch

https://jedrzej.maczan.pl/2025_11_21_dp_knapsack_sliding_hirschberg
34•yu3zhou4•3d ago•5 comments

Nine-Inch Snails

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/10/giant-african-snails-florida-invasion/688850/
98•zdw•16h ago•48 comments

Flexport Is Hiring a Biz Ops Leader in Office of CEO

https://www.flexport.com/company/careers/
1•thedogeye•14h ago

Monte-Carlo Simulations

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/monte-carlo-simulations/
151•ibobev•3d ago•30 comments

90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

https://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/
556•speckx•22h ago•493 comments

I built the RealWorld app in Lean 4

https://leangineer.com/blog/realworld-in-lean/
80•saviorand•3d ago•10 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
•
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.