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USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons

https://postalpro.usps.com/zcb
408•munro•4h ago•202 comments

TPUs

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/global-network/tpu-8i-max-and-8tx/
165•_benx_•2h ago•27 comments

Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators

https://github.com/thisisme6598/gemini_files/
327•gf74918•5h ago•81 comments

Claude Fable 5.2 Scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, Highest So Far

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-fable-5-2
260•theanonymousone•4h ago•180 comments

E-means: 10x faster k-means at equal loss

https://e-means.github.io/
249•porridgeraisin•5h ago•15 comments

Payments Canada announces launch of Canada's Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system

https://www.payments.ca/canada-launches-real-time-rail-bringing-247-payment-infrastructure-nation...
447•ocd•8h ago•254 comments

Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-ember
229•dvaplima•6h ago•96 comments

Fold Epic Paper Airplanes

https://www.foldableflight.com
821•vismit2000•11h ago•134 comments

Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game

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21•lexandstuff•1h ago•6 comments

Infineon marks innovation milestone with 300mm power silicon carbide wafer

https://www.infineon.com/press-release/2026/infpr202611-028
94•sshah03•5h ago•57 comments

Magenta solar panels may be agrivoltaics' cleverest trick yet

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/10/magenta-solar-panels-may-be-agrivoltaics-cleverest-t...
262•speckx•9h ago•163 comments

Parking-app convenience fees in 312 U.S. cities (median $0.35 per session)

https://parkgraph.com/parking-app-fees
47•parkgraph•4h ago•25 comments

CUI – Native UI components for C

https://yappologistic.github.io/CUI/
141•hilti•4h ago•71 comments

Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-2
862•meetpateltech•5h ago•521 comments

A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization

https://www.nabo.dev/blogs/kernel-primer
78•nomi_uw•4d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Every satellite that passed over any place this week, and its photos

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211•a585gupt•6h ago•42 comments

Exact – a new cross platform UI framework by the Expo team

https://github.com/expo/exact
13•vmg12•1h ago•5 comments

Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3

https://twitter.com/shanemelaugh/status/2119192075505893695
724•rzk•17h ago•468 comments

A renowned scientist, a deadly snakebite, and a diary that documented it all

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5•areoform•1d ago•1 comments

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70•raiseCatError•5h ago•25 comments

Y/N (YC S23) is hiring a growth lead to distribute superhuman A.I. storytelling

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An ode to livelyness analysis; SSA to registers

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26•xnacly•2d ago•0 comments

A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xq2n3t/a_year_after_the_100_ai_mandate_nobody/
62•thelifeline•1h ago•63 comments

Magnets and Rare Earths

https://robodienst.com/learning-paths/magnets-and-rare-earths
9•Bluestein•2d ago•2 comments

Possible 19th-century castaway camp found on Isla de los Estados

https://phys.org/news/2026-11-archaeologists-uncover-19th-century-castaway.html
14•titusblair•3d ago•0 comments

DeepX claims inference up to 100B parameters at less than 5 W

https://www.eetimes.com/deepx-tapes-out-second-gen-chip-projects-6-7x-performance-gain-with-lpddr...
136•giuliomagnifico•5h ago•22 comments

What is malloc doing, anyway?

https://benmandrew.com/articles/what-is-malloc-doing-anyway
213•benmandrew•12h ago•59 comments

Deuterium's Impact on OLED Displays (2024)

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48•Dodaios•6h ago•12 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.