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OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/
451•jamdesk•5h ago•287 comments

PostgreSQL Is Enough

https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f06dbb
46•Imustaskforhelp•1h ago•17 comments

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

https://www.reuters.com/business/qualcomm-buy-ai-startup-modular-2026-06-24/
108•timmyd•9h ago•27 comments

RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers

https://rubyllm.com/
332•doener•8h ago•50 comments

We’re making Bunny DNS free

https://bunny.net/blog/were-making-bunny-dns-free/
830•dabinat•14h ago•251 comments

Elastic lays off 7% of employees

https://www.elastic.co/blog/ceo-ash-kulkarni-announcement-to-elastic-employees
84•dakrone•1h ago•47 comments

PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s

https://www.greptile.com/blog/prs-on-openclaw
165•dakshgupta•9h ago•92 comments

Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-computer-use-...
142•swolpers•6h ago•90 comments

The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

https://blog.omgmog.net/post/xteink-x4-e-ink-reader/
143•felixdoerp•7h ago•100 comments

Robotics Teams Are Rebuilding the Data Stack from Scratch

https://rerun.io/blog/data-layer-tax
14•Tycho87•3d ago•1 comments

Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/woot10/tech/full_papers/Wolchok.pdf
43•dgellow•3d ago•18 comments

45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/liquid-cooling-ai-factories/
135•nitin_flanker•9h ago•103 comments

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2069799283369345247
465•shadowtree•7h ago•234 comments

GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/glm-52-is-the-step-change-for-open
91•vantareed•1d ago•35 comments

Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js

https://github.com/nubjs/nub
186•colinmcd•9h ago•53 comments

GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116806641273303255
128•speckx•4h ago•42 comments

Stealing Is a Skill

https://ben-mini.com/2026/stealing-is-a-skill
201•bewal416•10h ago•121 comments

Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt

https://lookaway.com
45•_kush•10h ago•7 comments

Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report
319•mattnewton•1d ago•35 comments

It's Only When You Look Back

https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/06/17/25-its-only-when-you-look-back/
4•mark_round•1d ago•0 comments

I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?

https://natkr.com/2026-06-19-nixos-but-smol/
68•logickkk1•5d ago•21 comments

How the Fifth Lateran Council unlocked financial theory

https://sebastiangarren.com/2026/06/17/lending-is-meritorious-and-should-be-praised-how-the-fifth...
44•momentmaker•4d ago•5 comments

Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/06/pondering-routing-more-of-my-traffic-via-nodes-outside-the-uk-beca...
48•ColinWright•3d ago•32 comments

A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/ssh-tunnels
252•signa11•4d ago•53 comments

Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine

https://astral-os.org/posts/2026/04/03/wine-on-astral.html
95•avaliosdev•9h ago•30 comments

Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives

https://www.monolisa.dev/
151•bebraw•2d ago•51 comments

Exploiting vulnerabilities in Johnson and Johnson web apps

https://eaton-works.com/2026/06/24/jnj-webapp-hacks/
56•EatonZ•7h ago•2 comments

Big AI labs are hiring philosophers

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/24/why-big-ai-labs-are-hiring-so-many-ph...
109•Brajeshwar•7h ago•95 comments

Thomann takes legal action against Fender

https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/inside/thomann-takes-legal-action-against-fender/
170•Audiophilip•4h ago•104 comments

NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/politics/nsa-lost-access-anthropic-tool.html
211•thm•11h ago•194 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.