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Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

https://raymyers.org/post/zed-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/
665•crowdhailer•4h ago•319 comments

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

https://jivx.com/densha
71•momentmaker•1h ago•5 comments

Control the Ideas, Not the Code

https://antirez.com/news/169
37•surprisetalk•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)

https://github.com/floodtide/dom-docx
20•fishbone•1h ago•8 comments

Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/another-ridiculous-interrail-holiday-6379km-and-13-countries-ove...
125•coinfused•5h ago•68 comments

The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter

https://andiroberts.com/citizenship/the-social-physics-of-conversation-citizenship-leadership
87•kiyanwang•5d ago•16 comments

GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years

https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/
323•ranger_danger•4d ago•141 comments

Backtrack-Free Cursive

https://mmapped.blog/posts/52-backtrack-free-cursive
125•dmit•7h ago•59 comments

An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

https://anderegg.ca/2026/07/12/an-infuriating-goodbye-to-photoshop
56•ExMachina73•1h ago•26 comments

Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

https://shellzine.net/cyberpunk-comics/
237•zdw•14h ago•86 comments

Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica

https://github.com/schlae/BeavisUltrasound
77•mariuz•7h ago•26 comments

Tiny Emulators

https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit-preview/index.html
293•naves•16h ago•25 comments

The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News

https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-graph-that-should-be-front-page-news
228•rakel_rakel•7h ago•144 comments

So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)

https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics
265•azhenley•5d ago•45 comments

How to read more books

https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-12-how-to-read-more-books/
434•silcoon•21h ago•216 comments

Designing and assembling my first PCB

https://vilkeliskis.com/b/2026/0711.html
135•tadasv•14h ago•69 comments

Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation

https://frieve-a.github.io/sound_toolbox/vinyl_explained/vinyl_explained.html
34•XzetaU8•4d ago•3 comments

Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

https://www.wired.com/story/sfpd-drone-video-leak-surveillance/
20•nozzlegear•1h ago•8 comments

The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwye0dlzgejo
5•austinallegro•4d ago•0 comments

We Put an L7 Firewall in the Kernel

https://yeet.cx/blog/l7-firewall-in-the-kernel
32•ok_major_9889•3d ago•4 comments

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

180•david927•15h ago•598 comments

LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

https://www.larp.website/
280•BerislavLopac•20h ago•55 comments

Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

799•levkk•11h ago•352 comments

Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/
331•compiler-guy•3d ago•185 comments

Sam Neill has died

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/13/sam-neill-death-actor-dies-aged-78
272•j4mie•7h ago•63 comments

Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper

https://ploy.ai/blog/migrating-a-production-ai-agent-to-gpt-5-6
221•brryant•19h ago•97 comments

Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks

https://kode.diy
97•iNic•15h ago•25 comments

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

https://systima.ai/blog/claude-code-vs-opencode-token-overhead
636•systima•18h ago•336 comments

Are you telling me a readonly property is wrecking my performance?

https://shub.club/writings/2026/july/check-your-scrollheight/
44•forthwall•3d ago•23 comments

How we can reduce traffic congestion

https://research.google/blog/the-power-of-collaboration-how-we-can-reduce-traffic-congestion/
153•raahelb•21h ago•255 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.