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Codex starts encrypting prompts, uses ciphertext for inference instead

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28058
80•embedding-shape•39m ago•36 comments

The Future Worth Building Is Human – Thinking Machines Lab

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/the-future-worth-building-is-human/
30•bilsbie•55m ago•11 comments

Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)

https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/
82•MrVandemar•3d ago•42 comments

The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use

https://blog.incogni.com/digital-fatigue-and-burnout/
24•derbOac•1h ago•7 comments

Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries

https://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/
563•donohoe•9h ago•151 comments

Actegories

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2026/06/30/actegories/
12•ibobev•55m ago•0 comments

How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

https://jola.dev/posts/how-to-stop-claude-from-saying-load-bearing
9•shintoist•14m ago•3 comments

Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware

https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/07/09/spectral-compute-aims-to-set-cuda-free-will-it-succeed/
72•alok-g•3h ago•36 comments

Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list

https://phemex.com/news/article/2026-fields-medal-winners-list-leaked-includes-two-peking-univers...
12•zaikunzhang•29m ago•0 comments

The Definition of Done

https://adi.bio/done
8•AdityaAnand1•26m ago•0 comments

Punch Yourself in the Face with Reality

https://adi.bio/reality
9•AdityaAnand1•27m ago•1 comments

Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity

https://lenergy.com.au/free-daytime-electricity-is-coming-heres-how-it-actually-works/
138•i2oc•7h ago•221 comments

The git history command

https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/
337•turbocon•11h ago•205 comments

Notable Knot Index (2016)

https://knots.neocities.org/knotindex
25•surprisetalk•4d ago•6 comments

Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg53l737v1qo
86•BaudouinVH•5h ago•8 comments

YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database

https://github.com/JetBrains/youtrackdb
140•gjvc•8h ago•44 comments

Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode

https://scottwillsey.com/building-and-shipping-mac-and-ios-apps-without-ever-opening-xcode/
498•speckx•17h ago•211 comments

Just Let Me Write Digits

https://gendx.dev/blog/2026/07/13/input-digits.html
67•brandon_bot•6h ago•18 comments

Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005)

https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/wireless_book.html
146•teleforce•9h ago•6 comments

How to build a circular LCD clock

https://blinry.org/lcd-clock/
92•birdculture•2d ago•38 comments

Show HN: Rejourney – Open-source revenue leak prediction for web and mobile apps

https://github.com/rejourneyco/rejourney
6•mrr7337•54m ago•0 comments

The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]

https://elasticity.institute/rsi-paper.pdf
109•apsec112•10h ago•49 comments

An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54o
175•1659447091•12h ago•52 comments

Zero Knowledge Tolstoyan Art

https://max-amb.github.io/blog/zero_knowledge_tolstoyan_art/
31•max-amb•2d ago•14 comments

Is x86 ready to ACE it?

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/is-x86-ready-to-ace-it
88•mfiguiere•10h ago•15 comments

MorphoHDL: A minimalistic language for growing circuits

https://paradigms-of-intelligence.github.io/morpho/
83•jacktang•10h ago•8 comments

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF)

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/SalesPatriot/df223727-5781-433e-bc75-2aa5bf8dc8d7
1•maciejSz•14h ago

The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/meta-social-media-teenagers-22337724.php
186•Stratoscope•17h ago•312 comments

World-First 'Super Alloy' Could Transform the Way Metals Are Made

https://www.sciencealert.com/world-first-super-alloy-could-transform-the-way-metals-are-made
75•tejohnso•4d ago•46 comments

Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites

https://satellitemap.space/
102•rolph•10h ago•55 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.