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I paid people to try and follow my README

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/10/i-paid-people-to-try-and-follow-my-readme/
138•edent•2h ago•81 comments

Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/math-2-0-caltech-2026.pdf
36•Anon84•1h ago•5 comments

Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yandex datacenter

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d
432•walrus01•4h ago•155 comments

Don't Put Tilde In Your Path

https://disconnect3d.pl//2026/10/02/dont-put-tilde-in-your-path/
58•arusekk•2h ago•30 comments

LineageOS 24.0

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-32/
234•timschumi•8h ago•71 comments

Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help

https://nitter.net
228•ForHackernews•3h ago•89 comments

Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking

https://verdagon.dev/blog/valen-group-borrowing
31•verdagon•2h ago•16 comments

2D Vehicles

https://patkerr.co.uk/2d-vehicles/
539•Michelangelo11•4d ago•107 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/weave-os
1•adchurch•2h ago

Build your own decision model

https://nishtahir.com/build-your-own-decision-model/
389•softwaredoug•15h ago•86 comments

IRCv3

https://ircv3.net/
169•basilikum•4h ago•150 comments

A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

https://housing.over.pizza/
427•JumpCrisscross•18h ago•144 comments

How HN: Go-dev-auth zero-dependency authentication library for Go

https://github.com/go-dev-auth/go-dev-auth
11•BisratMelak•1h ago•5 comments

Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The history of the pipe operator in R

http://adolfoalvarez.cl/blog/2021-09-16-plumbers-chains-and-famous-painters-the-history-of-the-pi...
10•sinnsro•2d ago•2 comments

The Lightbulb Computer

https://lightbulbcomputer.com/
499•oskarth•1d ago•75 comments

Rat's Register Allocator

https://hexrat.cc/pages/blog/2026_10_07
30•mpweiher•1d ago•2 comments

How big is a Git commit?

https://ratfactor.com/cards/git-commit-size
59•theanonymousone•2d ago•24 comments

PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP

https://github.com/othermod/PSPi-Version-6
117•therepanic•13h ago•11 comments

Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11111-4
85•theanonymousone•3d ago•15 comments

Open-Source Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Replications

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/creator-of-free-adobe-clones-unveils-open-...
10•mathgenius•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

https://betterwispr.com/
5•kartik017•2h ago•0 comments

When Ldaxr Doesn't Work: Exclusive Accesses and Cacheability on AArch64

https://joelsiks.com/posts/aarch64-exclusive-access-cacheability/
15•joelsiks•1d ago•2 comments

Nix wrote half of my debugger

https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/07/nix-wrote-half-of-my-debugger
217•ingve•2d ago•52 comments

Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes

https://hangul.ink/blog/hangul-day
70•jbaudanza•2d ago•14 comments

Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/experiment-running-hospital-code/
168•rafiss•1d ago•72 comments

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

https://github.com/rociiu/talorys
306•rociiu•1d ago•141 comments

Knuth reward check

https://www.thomas-huehn.com/knuth-reward-check/
209•Curiositry•22h ago•75 comments

Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/10/07/microsoft-execution-containers-policy-drive...
208•smokel•2d ago•58 comments

3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

https://status.yandex.cloud/en/incidents/2136
335•defly•6h ago•421 comments

Decade-old RAM is making a comeback

https://www.theverge.com/games/1009140/ram-shortage-intel-amd-ddr4-comeback
115•1potato•1d ago•103 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
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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.