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GPT-5.6

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/
725•logickkk1•3h ago•520 comments

GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper

https://toot-books.pages.dev/blog/glm-5-2-vat-benchmark
113•adamkurkiewicz•1h ago•62 comments

ChatGPT Work

https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitious-work/
267•Tiberium•3h ago•111 comments

Show HN: 18 Words

https://18words.com/
680•pompomsheep•7h ago•254 comments

EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-parliament-greenlights-chat-control-1-0-breyer-our-children-l...
738•rapnie•9h ago•373 comments

Hy3

https://hy.tencent.com/research/hy3
255•andai•5h ago•63 comments

How to Start a Ruby Meetup

https://guides.rubyevents.org/meetups/
35•mooreds•2h ago•8 comments

Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone into the Perfect Kids' Dumb Phone

https://www.wired.com/story/this-buried-apple-feature-turns-an-iphone-into-the-perfect-kids-dumb-...
129•PotatoNinja•3d ago•93 comments

Train SIM Created by Just One Person Is Being Called the Best Ever Made

https://kotaku.com/a-train-sim-created-by-just-one-person-is-being-called-the-best-ever-made-2000...
60•oumua_don17•4d ago•10 comments

Girls Just Wanna Have Fast MPMC Queues with Bounded Waiting

https://nahla.dev/blog/waitfree_queue/
86•EvgeniyZh•3d ago•16 comments

A possible future for Damn Interesting

https://www.damninteresting.com/a-possible-future/
151•mzur•5h ago•13 comments

TLS certificates for internal services done right

https://tuxnet.dev/posts/tls-for-internal-services/
100•mrl5•5h ago•66 comments

Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wildcard/jobs/ZSLVaaU-founding-engineer
1•kaushikmahorker•3h ago

The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-glass-backbone-why-the-armys-logistics-will-break-in-the-next-war/
217•baud147258•7h ago•278 comments

Why the Next Era of AI Is About Infrastructure, Not Just Models

https://blog.mozilla.ai/the-control-layer-why-the-next-era-of-ai-is-about-infrastructure-not-just...
15•royapakzad•5h ago•3 comments

Muse Spark 1.1

https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/
261•ot•6h ago•151 comments

Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri
15•vforno•12h ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

https://www.context.dev
53•TheYahiaBakour•4h ago•39 comments

Opinionated and Easy Pi.dev Configuration

https://lazypi.org/
78•lwhsiao•5h ago•47 comments

No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026

https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/bulletinC.txt
181•ChrisArchitect•6h ago•149 comments

Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas

https://tomesphere.com/atlas
41•leonickson•18h ago•11 comments

Show HN: Analog Watch

https://analog.watch
76•ezekg•5h ago•67 comments

Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip

https://www.networkworld.com/article/4192827/meta-reuses-old-ram-in-new-servers-with-custom-bridg...
264•ihsw•6d ago•180 comments

Show HN: Pylon Sync, an agent-first full-stack realtime framework

https://www.pylonsync.com
4•ericc59•2h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Abralo – Free, easy way to run several Claude Code agents in one window

https://abralo.com/
16•cwbuilds•1d ago•6 comments

How to Follow a Drummer

https://drummate.app/blog/how-to-follow-a-drummer
20•sashyo•3d ago•16 comments

AI changes the economics of software rewrites

https://thetruthasiseeitnow.com/ai-slop-starts-with-the-codebase-itself/
84•cinooo•14h ago•95 comments

New open access book on history of computers and politics

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262053198/simpolitics/
50•mckelveyf•6h ago•5 comments

What the New Executive Order Means for Secure Software Delivery in Government

https://www.rise8.us/resources/ai-executive-order-secure-software-delivery-government
5•mooreds•30m ago•0 comments

Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/9703/Spider-venom-kills-varroa-mites-without-harming
279•Jedd•15h ago•126 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.