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KOReader

https://koreader.rocks/
404•Cider9986•4h ago•134 comments

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25398
128•spIrr•2h ago•79 comments

Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

https://github.com/drumih/turbo-fieldfare
34•gitpusher42•25m ago•2 comments

Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem

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37•ibobev•2h ago•0 comments

Darktable

https://www.darktable.org/
93•siatko•2h ago•40 comments

Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago

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45•stevenwoo•2d ago•28 comments

More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

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329•Error6571•10h ago•100 comments

Amiga Graphics Archive

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96•Bluestein•5h ago•16 comments

Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word

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182•Canopy9560•3h ago•163 comments

Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions

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45•nyku•3h ago•11 comments

User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

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326•zdw•11h ago•55 comments

The Scientific Literature Is Poisonous to LLMs

https://www.reinvent.science/p/the-scientific-literature-is-poisonous
3•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

SpecForge – A Platform for Authoring Formal Specifications

https://docs.imiron.io/v/0.5.10/en/tour.html
55•agnishom•4h ago•3 comments

Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator

https://cesium.com/events/cesium-developer-conference/2026/
3•jasteinerman•17m ago•0 comments

SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers

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176•ankitg12•8h ago•55 comments

A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT)

https://jcgt.org/published/0015/02/01/
25•ibobev•2h ago•3 comments

TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/token-town/
49•laurentiurad•2h ago•13 comments

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Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

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69•rubenvanwyk•1h ago•38 comments

Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp

https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/chap8.html
83•fallat•2d ago•21 comments

Codex Security

https://github.com/openai/codex-security
573•bakigul•18h ago•210 comments

French musician Kavinsky found dead

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235•bristleworm•3h ago•54 comments

Ancient Rome's version of Google Maps: how long to reach the beach

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57•gnabgib•6d ago•35 comments

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows

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35•DemiGuru•1h ago•7 comments

ALP: Adaptive lossless floating-point compression

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25•fanf2•3d ago•3 comments

San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

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56•hn_acker•2h ago•9 comments

Show HN: A verification browser for AI agents – 13ms windows, one-call checks

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8•hongnoul_•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself

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21•arisAlexis•2h ago•11 comments

Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

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393•twalichiewicz•17h ago•105 comments

Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/27/nx-s1-5905360/kalshi-wisconsin-election-betting-prediction-markets
51•hn_acker•2h ago•15 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
•
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.