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Elevators

https://john.fun/elevators
889•Jrh0203•10h ago•223 comments

qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work

https://github.com/yc-software/qm
468•tosh•8h ago•101 comments

Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights

https://weeraman.com/because-we-can/
170•aweeraman•3d ago•67 comments

The Absurdity of Albert Camus

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/absurdity-albert-camus
52•apollinaire•1d ago•33 comments

June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more

https://servo.org/blog/2026/07/31/june-in-servo/
107•iamnothere•7h ago•32 comments

Progressive Web Components

https://arielsalminen.com/2026/progressive-web-components/
92•hosteur•16h ago•14 comments

Big Food vs. the People

https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/big-food-vs-the-people/
194•jruohonen•10h ago•132 comments

How to Exist

https://www.raptitude.com/2026/07/how-to-exist/
12•walterbell•1h ago•1 comments

Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/getting-25g-ethernet-mac-thunderbolt/
142•speckx•9h ago•84 comments

Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion

https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion
466•bluehatbrit•7h ago•178 comments

Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: RowHammer and RowPress Phenomena

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28233
35•Jimmc414•5h ago•17 comments

Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s

https://github.com/sqliteai/waste
159•marcobambini•11h ago•62 comments

Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/80590
125•jabits•7h ago•78 comments

Let's make the worst Htmx

https://zserge.com/posts/worst-htmx-ever/
67•RebelPotato•20h ago•20 comments

How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods

https://cgjennings.ca/articles/jpeg-compression/
112•at1as•4d ago•13 comments

Loops (YC W22) Is Hiring a Product Educator

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/loops/jobs/zqUnwqB-product-educator-technical-content-creator
1•chrisfrantz•5h ago

The most official water costs $120k a gallon

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/26/the-most-official-water-costs-120000-a-gallon/
139•surprisetalk•11h ago•124 comments

A past and future of trade secrets

https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/kofen.php
15•Hooke•1d ago•3 comments

The First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Was a Bold, Beautiful Failure

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-first-transatlantic-telegraph-cable-was-a-bold-beautiful-failure
19•sparsesignal•2d ago•3 comments

Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

https://code.intellios.ai/cwbrowser/
34•coolwulf•4h ago•12 comments

Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer)

https://github.com/l00sed/termixer
54•l00sed•7h ago•35 comments

Predictive Speculative KV Replication for Bursty LLM Inference

https://jwlabs.vercel.app/post/biting-the-bullet
29•shreybirmiwal•6h ago•2 comments

Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy

https://www.theexamination.org/articles/red-bull-funded-research-energy-drinks-alcohol
118•Jimmc414•10h ago•181 comments

Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reasoning-right-for-the-wrong-reasons-20260731/
122•retupmoc01•10h ago•153 comments

Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion

https://semyonsinchenko.github.io/ssinchenko/post/datafusion-graphs-cc-2/
103•speckx•10h ago•32 comments

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-74-1-using-the-railway-network-as-a-flatbed-scanner
52•Jimmc414•7h ago•25 comments

Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours

https://manifest.build/blog/why-we-deprecated-our-llm-router/
95•brunaxLorax•8h ago•51 comments

Severance

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/severance
209•surprisetalk•8h ago•69 comments

Authorize, don't authenticate

https://blog.marcua.net/2026/07/31/authorize-dont-authenticate.html
57•marcua•11h ago•15 comments

How far can you push the range of Wi-Fi connectivity in an ideal environment?

https://www.phidgets.com/?view=articles&article=LongRangeWifi
8•rzk•3d ago•3 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.