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Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone?

https://so.long.thanks.fish/why-pi-when-i-have-an-old-phone/
139•casi•3d ago•88 comments

Ggml v1.0.0

https://github.com/ggml-org/ggml/releases/tag/v1.0.0
300•cobychapple•10h ago•47 comments

Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side

https://monkeyisland.pages.dev/
204•maximilianburke•8h ago•62 comments

Nvidia allegedly engineered scarcity by funding AI startups to buy its GPUs

https://www.techpowerup.com/354814/nvidia-allegedly-engineered-scarcity-by-funding-ai-startups-to...
693•speckx•9h ago•402 comments

Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B Quantizations – Dynamic v3.1 Update

https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.8
171•Retro_Dev•12h ago•50 comments

Terminal borders that don't cost a cell

https://www.joshka.net/cell-borders/
304•vinhnx•13h ago•134 comments

FAA issues national ground stop – lifted 4.5 hours later

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faa-orders-nationwide-ground-stop-departing-flights-reasons-...
1569•zulln•15h ago•1195 comments

What happened to 3Com?

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-3com/
162•gvieri•12h ago•84 comments

Show HN: Live map of U.S. flights during tonight's FAA nationwide ground stop

https://grounds.top/
160•gvsi•13h ago•22 comments

Jonathan Blow – If AI solved coding, why is my software still the same? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRK8h67ol7Q
329•helloplanets•21h ago•444 comments

Found: A protein that drives ageing without unleashing inflammation

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03638-3
211•gumby•17h ago•45 comments

The curious case of the north-east arrow

https://arsh.zip/posts/north-east-arrow/
8•arshxyz•2d ago•3 comments

FM-1 Workbench

https://open.m-vave.com/fm1-workbench
241•simonebrunozzi•17h ago•159 comments

Live airband on all frequencies from KORS. Victoria, CA also ground stopped

https://orcasairband.com/
274•mmaunder•14h ago•65 comments

How Not to Build a Music Player

https://alichraghi.github.io/blog/how-not-to-build-a-music-player/
131•vinhnx•13h ago•56 comments

Service Crew Discovers Rare Yellow Burbot in Oswego Harbor

https://www.fws.gov/story/2026-11/service-crew-discovers-rare-yellow-burbot-oswego-harbor
9•tart-lemonade•2d ago•1 comments

After 600 experiments, here's what I discovered about JEPA world models

https://haddyalchaer.com/jepa
268•halcdev•18h ago•45 comments

Extending LLDB to Debug Applications That Span CPUs and GPUs

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/11/09/developer-tools/extending-lldb-to-debug-applications-that-s...
20•JDevlieghere•3d ago•3 comments

Let's Write a PostScript Interpreter

https://beyondloom.com/blog/postscript.html
8•RebelPotato•1d ago•3 comments

Show HN: I have trained 15 blood glucose forecasting models on my own data

https://github.com/0xdeadf1sh/T1DMAI
46•0xdeadf1sh•3d ago•19 comments

Show HN: Isometric SF – A pixel-art map of the SF Bay Area

https://isometricsf.com/
221•juscha1•18h ago•71 comments

Perplexity Decider v1.3: Training, eval, and use cases

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/perplexity-decider
136•gmays•17h ago•23 comments

Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming

https://gyptazy.com/blog/freebsd-bhyve-live-migration-support-rfc/
115•JohnDohnBohn•16h ago•29 comments

Elephants found to be increasingly isolated leading to fractured social networks

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/elephants-found-to-be-increasingly-isolated-leading-to-fractured-soc...
148•gmays•10h ago•33 comments

Minnesota guitarist's "palmfrets" invention strikes a new chord

https://www.echopress.com/business/minnesota-guitarists-invention-strikes-a-new-chord
179•bookofjoe•21h ago•103 comments

Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-11-11-reverse-engineering-my-coway-air-purifier-to-ditch-the-cloud/
764•scottjg•1d ago•215 comments

The Other Nefertiti (2015)

https://alloversky.com/puzzlepieces/the-other-nefertiti
26•dmbche•2d ago•5 comments

A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/a-technical-vision-for-the-haskell-ecosystem/15078
213•cosmic_quanta•21h ago•128 comments

Amtrak booking system experiencing major issues amid nationwide FAA ground stop

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/amtrak-outage-ticket-booking-faa-ground-stop-november-13-2026
171•snow_mac•11h ago•60 comments

Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring MTS to build AI agents that manage your wealth

https://atg.science/careers
1•dkobran•15h ago
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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.