frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Muse Spark Open

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open
692•bigwheels•10h ago•374 comments

RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes

https://ipinfo.io/blog/rpki-protects-70-internet-routes
83•emot•3h ago•23 comments

Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad

https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill
73•chanana•2h ago•9 comments

Business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites Starting Oct. 30

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-site...
112•0in•5h ago•44 comments

Neural networks are clean

https://already-clean.goodfire.com/
565•themgt•12h ago•216 comments

'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds

https://www.polygon.com/order-of-the-sinking-star-impressions/
33•cvoss•2d ago•11 comments

What I self-host

https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/10/what-i-self-host/
347•BrunoBernardino•8h ago•227 comments

Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat

https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-routed-a-graphite-pipe-through-the-iphone-duos-hinge
81•giuliomagnifico•2d ago•52 comments

BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC

https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026/resolution-5
115•gliffie•12h ago•54 comments

Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design

https://github.com/fyzugx/DEsk
550•FinalDestiny•15h ago•215 comments

AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware

https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-discover-tech-turned-targeted-ads-into-a-pipeline-for-spyware/
417•jcomp•17h ago•578 comments

Jev meets the Trolley Problem

https://zachlandes.com/trolley-problem/
361•zlandes86•12h ago•162 comments

Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter

https://sklar.rocks/non-determinism-doesnt-matter/
29•sklarsa•1d ago•27 comments

Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr

https://thereallo.dev/blog/someone-on-torrent-sites-kept-fucking-with-my-sonarr-setup
275•speckx•9h ago•128 comments

New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing

https://support.withings.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/51887047154577-Unacceptable-Apple-Health-Sy...
204•johnbehnke•8h ago•152 comments

Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale

https://www.krea.ai/krea-3
279•dvrp•12h ago•86 comments

4 Years of Ludicon

https://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/2026/10/4-years-of-ludicon/
5•ibobev•2d ago•0 comments

Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran

https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/09-15-Fortran-birthday/
240•rbanffy•13h ago•104 comments

BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox

https://github.com/johnrash/bebox
35•rguiscard•5h ago•9 comments

Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)

https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
128•GaryBluto•1d ago•49 comments

Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary

https://www.seriouseats.com/biscoff-history-12168161
200•mhb•2d ago•150 comments

Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot2610.html
261•iamnothere•15h ago•165 comments

E Ink Kaleido 4

https://www.eink.com/news/detail/EInk-Launches-Latest-Version-of-Color-ePaper-Platform-E-Ink-Kale...
149•Perroboc•10h ago•86 comments

Aidlc: Adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents

https://github.com/awslabs/aidlc-workflows
22•pramodbiligiri•21h ago•18 comments

Major ICQ security hole (1998)

https://opennet.ru/base/maillist/169.txt.html
57•sysoleg•2d ago•29 comments

Thank You, Deno

https://www.vlt.io/blog/competition-keeps-javascript-moving
39•jcbhmr•3h ago•3 comments

Comparing Chromium Development at Google and Igalia

https://lwn.net/Articles/1094721/
16•signa11•2h ago•0 comments

Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/10/15/aiandreverseengineerhardware/
145•ErenayDev•14h ago•123 comments

The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend

https://www.theautopian.com/you-wont-believe-the-incredible-engineering-that-allows-articulated-b...
91•CharlesW•1d ago•41 comments

Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land

https://unfenced.land/
282•otherwatersflow•17h ago•188 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.