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JetKVM Mini

https://jetkvm.com/blog/introducing-jetkvm-mini
15•taubek•33m ago•6 comments

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating
158•jonifico•7h ago•183 comments

The Interim Computer Museum

https://icm.museum/
101•mulmen•5h ago•9 comments

Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

https://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/
439•juliantigler•15h ago•105 comments

I Added a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant

https://medium.com/@ivangomezarnedo/how-i-added-a-non-wi-fi-mitsubishi-ac-to-home-assistant-22770...
61•ichacas•2d ago•29 comments

Aligned to whom?

https://hyperbo.la/w/aligned-to-whom/
34•lopopolo•5h ago•9 comments

Apple iPod Engraver (2019)

https://dunstanorchard.com/apple-ipod-engraver/
199•NaOH•4d ago•51 comments

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/09/03/nvidia-is-the-central-bank-of-ai
469•tolugenius•17h ago•330 comments

Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/everyone-slowdown-but-me/
417•xena•7h ago•247 comments

Stabilizing Rust's Never Type

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1091015/d9e48318ed242b41/
181•cjd8•3d ago•51 comments

A succession crisis that tore England apart (2023)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/succession-crisis-tore-england-apart
29•pepys•5h ago•13 comments

Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2098443262214230095
106•dsubburam•10h ago•88 comments

AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research

https://agentsdock.net/
45•ZihuiGeorgia•8h ago•23 comments

A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-black-hole-caught.html
13•wglb•4h ago•2 comments

P(doom)

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/12/pdoom/
70•lumpa•10h ago•38 comments

Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX

https://github.com/Foadsf/vintage-latex
58•petalmind•3d ago•6 comments

Durable execution without history replay

https://trigora.dev/blog/durable-execution-without-history-replay/
17•hypervs•3d ago•3 comments

LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/lg-strongly-denies-tv-security-claims-says-tr...
512•datakan•2d ago•405 comments

Operation Smart Kettle – Börzels Blog

https://blog.boerzel.de/de/blog/operation-smart-kettle
3•marbartolome•2d ago•1 comments

Liesegang Rings

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/liesegang-rings
34•surprisetalk•3d ago•4 comments

Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine

https://eiln.github.io/posts/ane-dma.html
134•eiln•3d ago•26 comments

We must pace the frontier

https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
631•apsec112•18h ago•885 comments

After Math

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/after-math/
59•throwaway81523•5h ago•40 comments

Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone

https://www.wired.com/story/why-so-many-ai-researchers-think-the-machines-could-kill-everyone/
8•joozio•1h ago•3 comments

Will there be a 7G?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01877
97•Betelbuddy•15h ago•157 comments

Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases

https://withspecific.com/benchmarks/real-swe
233•theanonymousone•11h ago•133 comments

I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times

https://lalitm.com/post/buildprof/
125•lalitmaganti•17h ago•23 comments

Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-microcode-reverse-engineering-fscale.html
105•pwg•16h ago•33 comments

When anyone can build software, who decides what not to build?

https://architectureintel.com/when-anyone-can-build-software-who-decides-what-not-to-build-ae07fd...
29•younss•2h ago•20 comments

Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard

https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/117201594980991062
290•encyclopedism•13h ago•88 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.