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Residential proxies detected on White House network

https://layer3intel.com/blog/residential-proxies-white-house-network
910•Rasbora•10h ago•276 comments

Lemmings CSS Animation

https://markblah.github.io/lemmings/
54•MarkBlah•1h ago•6 comments

Images 2.6

https://openai.com/index/introducing-images-2-6/
226•davidbarker•7h ago•146 comments

A thousand fewer paths to root

https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root/
265•dangelosaurus•7h ago•161 comments

Starfall – Affordable, routine access to microgravity

https://www.spacex.com/starfall
189•gmays•6h ago•120 comments

Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding

https://www.ricursive.com/ripple
274•Philpax•11h ago•99 comments

Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out

https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro
474•abrarthought•15h ago•134 comments

Spreading Liquid with Three.js

https://mofu-dev.com/en/blog/fluid-foundation/
41•mooreds•2d ago•8 comments

Insects don't swarm at LED lights

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2026/11/03/insects-dont-swarm-at-led-lights/
225•speckx•11h ago•119 comments

A new Go API for JSON

https://go.dev/blog/jsonv2
278•olexsmir•13h ago•126 comments

Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements

https://icode4.coffee/?p=1746
101•muricula•8h ago•5 comments

Altera Announces Agilex 2X, a Complete FPGA and SoC Portfolio

https://www.altera.com/newsroom/agilex-2x
7•gmays•1h ago•1 comments

Conductor is joining Meta

https://www.conductor.build/announcement
159•kenrose•12h ago•173 comments

Future Maintenance of Mbed TLS

https://lists.trustedfirmware.org/archives/list/mbed-tls@lists.trustedfirmware.org/thread/YPIGCB7...
9•jonesjohnson•1d ago•1 comments

Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra – 150W AI Accelerator Card with 128GB at 548GB/s

https://www.qualcomm.com/data-center/products/cloud-ai-100-ultra
134•peter_d_sherman•10h ago•54 comments

Show HN: After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander

https://fireflyk64.github.io/wcmulti/
155•daniel_rh•12h ago•17 comments

AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerability
1148•pseudolus•19h ago•666 comments

Progress on provable inference for large language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/provable-inference
206•ltononro•13h ago•91 comments

Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?

259•eggbrain•16h ago•250 comments

Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor

83•lukeigel•13h ago•33 comments

Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/guerrilla-bike-lanes-san-francisco-makes-illicit-infrastru...
285•zenincognito•15h ago•206 comments

So my ISP was hijacking my DNS

https://www.karthihegde.dev/posts/dns_tampering
23•frostbyte7•18h ago•12 comments

OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company

https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-pierre/
227•itunpredictable•15h ago•69 comments

Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/doordash-says-outside-ai-agents-have-only-led-to-hundreds-of-o...
115•PaulHoule•2d ago•208 comments

A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/02/food/coffee-machine-plastic-free
77•thunderbong•15h ago•89 comments

Tencent Hy4

https://hy.tencent.ai/research/hy4
227•Philpax•16h ago•73 comments

'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/04/what-can-save-the-british-high-street-rotherham
106•theanonymousone•14h ago•219 comments

11 Nanoseconds per Word: Over-Optimizing Anagrams

https://wiredream.com/anagram-fun/
16•ColinWright•20h ago•2 comments

Show HN: The DNA of DOOM – How code structure survives across 44 ports

https://squid-protocol.github.io/gitgalaxy/museum-of-code/doom-dna/
41•joe-esquibel•2d ago•21 comments

Is Curiosity Good for Us?

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n20/adam-phillips/is-curiosity-good-for-us
36•NaOH•1d ago•18 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
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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.