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The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/on-navier-stokes/
86•tosh•58m ago•41 comments

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

https://ai.meta.com/muse/
465•yks•11h ago•487 comments

Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117231186011306184
16•Cider9986•22m ago•0 comments

Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-trees-muscle-posture-newly-role.html
94•mdp2021•5d ago•15 comments

Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf
1544•procedurecall•1d ago•661 comments

The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing?

https://dearheadofmine.substack.com/p/the-nonfiction-book-market-is-collapsing
24•samclemens•2h ago•27 comments

Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-determine-how-to-spot-fake-ancient-pottery-...
26•cisc•3d ago•9 comments

How to build a printer

https://nishantjosh.dev/blogs/how-to-build-a-fking-printer/
266•cat-whisperer•9h ago•53 comments

AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/alphagenome-atlas/
540•utiiiD•15h ago•118 comments

Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3Dpc7fqaOcAH
142•paimapi•9h ago•75 comments

Mercury 2.5

https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2-5
181•Topfi•10h ago•26 comments

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

https://gpu-lexer.vercel.app/
61•bpierre•5h ago•17 comments

I resigned from Anthropic today

https://twitter.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843#m
406•yurivish•6h ago•540 comments

DaVinci Resolve 21.1

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20260908-03
390•tosh•17h ago•170 comments

A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)

https://note.com/masakazu_urabe/n/n7815f5b64fab?hl=en
22•porridgeraisin•2h ago•4 comments

The origins of Partner’s computer case

https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en/the-origins-of-partners-computer-case/
24•markostamcar•1d ago•2 comments

An Accidental Blackboard

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/an-accidental-blackboard.html
49•saikatsg•3d ago•23 comments

Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117237320796901560
314•_alternator_•9h ago•304 comments

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd
407•domhudson•16h ago•290 comments

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
1228•tedsanders•13h ago•980 comments

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen38-27b-quantizations-benchmarked/
238•stared•16h ago•111 comments

Into the depths of C: Elaborating the de facto standards (2016)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2980983.2908081
13•rramadass•15h ago•1 comments

AI Has a Discovery Problem

https://mhacevedo.com/posts/the-discovery-problem
12•miguelacevedo•1h ago•8 comments

A Topological Picture Book, Rendered

https://e-infinity.space/picture-book/
89•mathgenius•8h ago•10 comments

The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025)

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6067/The-Microeconomics-of-Artificial-Intelligence
47•neehao•2d ago•21 comments

We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

https://lanparty.house/
487•fittingopposite•3d ago•322 comments

ChatGPT Images 2.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-5/
322•vertigoruntime•12h ago•393 comments

Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster

https://pointersgonewild.com/2026-08-25-replacing-a-rust-enum-with-a-64-bit-word/
118•metrofun•3d ago•45 comments

Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker

https://www.thran.uk/writ/devlog/2026/09/phpbb-144-in-docker.html
43•HeckFeck•1d ago•31 comments

Animation in Bevy: The Big Picture

https://glocq.com/en/blog/20260827/
65•ibobev•10h ago•7 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.