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Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
291•OfficialTurkey•2h ago•250 comments

Mistral Large 4

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/\
1558•Philpax•11h ago•952 comments

Decisions API is in public beta

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/decisions
113•chiefstorm•3h ago•44 comments

AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)

https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5
12•Fe2O3•1h ago•1 comments

Integer multiplication below n log n

https://github.com/openai/math/tree/main/preprints/Integer-multiplication-below-n-log-n-September...
24•E-Reverance•1h ago•10 comments

Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI

https://penguin-mail.com/
33•kavourias•2h ago•9 comments

EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/embeddinggemma-2/
202•ilreb•8h ago•28 comments

Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2026/
516•solarist•14h ago•169 comments

Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure

https://andreklein.net/vibecoding-photoshop-time-and-pressure/
45•samtheDamned•3h ago•44 comments

OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU
216•fsbonetto•8h ago•281 comments

When random is not actually random enough

https://ersc.io/blog/when-random-isnt-random-enough
19•steveklabnik•4h ago•5 comments

Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model

https://www.zohaib.cc/blog/smartest-claude-code-feature
78•zed_labs_dev•6h ago•42 comments

Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/paramount-completes-111b-warner-merger-creating-skyda...
158•Mgtyalx•3h ago•231 comments

LLMs may have helped my RSI

https://vaughanhilts.me/2026/10/05/llms-immensely-helped-my-rsi.html
24•vaughands•21h ago•14 comments

The Query Transformation Pipeline

https://readyset.io/blog/how-readyset-rewrites-your-sql-inside-the-query-transformation-pipeline
9•gvsg-rs•2h ago•0 comments

UniEvo-VL: Self-Distillation Training for Multimodal Model Self-Improvement

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38721
6•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI releases 722 math manuscripts

https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/CONTENTS.md
5•jumploops•47m ago•0 comments

State of Devs 2026 survey results: developers are exhausted

https://2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/
24•sgdesign•1h ago•7 comments

How Fast is Python 3.15?

https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/how-fast-is-python-3-15
15•Qem•2h ago•6 comments

Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?

15•onemiketwelve•1d ago•3 comments

Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight

https://www.techspot.com/news/114111-utah-become-first-state-ai-examine-patients-prescribe.html
56•healsdata•7h ago•84 comments

Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261005011249.htm
19•kelnos•35m ago•1 comments

Benchmark in Milliseconds

https://matklad.github.io/2026/10/05/benchmark-milliseconds.html
126•surprisetalk•1d ago•36 comments

California closed the Montana license plate loophole

https://www.thedrive.com/news/heres-how-california-closed-the-montana-license-plate-loophole
46•speckx•7h ago•75 comments

What's Earth's dominant species by mass?

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/27/whats-earths-dominant-species-by-mass/
134•surprisetalk•11h ago•87 comments

OpenSSH 10.6

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.6
80•torcete•3h ago•17 comments

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

https://gleam.run/news/gleam-doesnt-compile-to-erlang-source-anymore/
290•ingve•16h ago•122 comments

Berthd

https://berthd.app/
43•handfuloflight•5h ago•62 comments

Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?

31•Gooblebrai•2h ago•31 comments

Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill

https://citizenlab.ca/toronto-based-vpn-provider-plans-to-quit-canada-over-lawful-access-bill/
95•speckx•5h ago•37 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.