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Ten days later, Git on macOS still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html
666•galadran•5h ago•245 comments

CNC Stone Carving

https://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/
115•bschne•1h ago•26 comments

Start Doing Graph Theory

https://vertex.degree/
344•ibobev•5d ago•81 comments

Unveiling The Grid: PCBs made in America, twice as fast as Shenzhen

https://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-grid
183•seddona•2d ago•83 comments

AlpineBSD

https://wiki.alpinebsd.org
36•bradley_taunt•1h ago•32 comments

ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Ops in US History

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-running-one-of-the-largest-anti-left-surveillance-operations-i...
791•zzzeek•3h ago•561 comments

Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI

https://religionnews.com/2026/10/26/in-a-first-a-humanist-granted-a-religious-exemption-from-usin...
190•danso•2h ago•214 comments

Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene

https://www.magnopus.com/blog/gaussiansplats-part-3-theres-always-a-bigger-scene
24•ibobev•5d ago•4 comments

Emacs Turns 50

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/
166•internet_points•2h ago•64 comments

From confession to conspiracy: How the Wedgewood fake polls story spread

https://www.cip.uw.edu/2026/10/23/from-confession-to-conspiracy-how-the-wedgewood-fake-polls-stor...
16•croes•3d ago•6 comments

Git for the US Code

https://lexifina.com/blog/git-for-the-us-code
372•alansaber•14h ago•190 comments

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit (2025)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
28•bilsbie•49m ago•4 comments

Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

https://surgehq.ai/blog/dayjob-tax
5•landonxi•27m ago•1 comments

Ghostty 1.4

https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-4-0
1222•deaux•23h ago•389 comments

Genie 4

https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/
989•acossta•1d ago•562 comments

Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-2026-winner-of-nikons-small-world-photomicrograp...
333•_Microft•2d ago•62 comments

Amazon to buy satellite firm Globalstar in $11.57B deal

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/amazon-signs-1157-billion-deal-satellite-firm-glob...
149•noptd•4h ago•70 comments

Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer

https://www.brangus.io/survival-llm
464•Luc•20h ago•174 comments

An architectural comparison of Obsidian Canvas and Heptabase

https://www.fluxlinks.com/blog/obsidian-canvas-vs-heptabase
25•ezrasu•1h ago•8 comments

Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World

https://healeycodes.com/decompiling-fast-food-tycoon-2-drawing-the-world
133•healeycodes•3d ago•27 comments

26,400 live credentials found scanning 7.25M repos on China's Gitee

https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/technical/scanning-7-point-25-million-public-repositories-ch...
13•kernelrocks•42m ago•2 comments

Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update

https://tailscale.com/ssh-investigation-update
337•figmert•20h ago•176 comments

Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/early-progress-drug-development
286•dataking•19h ago•276 comments

Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880

https://electrek.co/2026/10/28/tesla-semi-fire-i-880-hayward-no-crash/
35•metadat•1h ago•21 comments

MacOS Extensions Pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/10/macos-extensions-pack-for-apple-network.html
99•classichasclass•3d ago•2 comments

About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs

https://support.apple.com/en-us/149555
104•birdculture•5h ago•51 comments

Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/code-execution-flaw-in-uefi-firmware-threatens-most-serv...
239•DamnInteresting•19h ago•153 comments

New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/
408•beex•1d ago•563 comments

SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef

https://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/ss-united-states-to-be-sunk-as-worlds-largest-artifici...
190•geox•2d ago•155 comments

The Colors of a Soap Film

https://aseemrb.me/blog/colors-of-a-soap-film/
33•gregsadetsky•4d ago•2 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.