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Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider

https://strandsagents.com/blog/amazon-saves-millions-replacing-sonnet-with-strands-decider/
202•aloukissas•2h ago•64 comments

Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-2
535•lairv•14h ago•766 comments

USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons

https://postalpro.usps.com/zcb
610•munro•12h ago•305 comments

Your TV can see through walls

https://maurycyz.com/projects/fading/
77•Curiositry•3h ago•23 comments

Locating the source of a mysterious beep

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/9/mysterious-beeps/
162•bigwheels•8h ago•74 comments

E-means: Outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs

https://e-means.github.io/
385•porridgeraisin•14h ago•36 comments

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

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526•ocd•16h ago•284 comments

Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes

https://www.foldableflight.com
1000•vismit2000•20h ago•148 comments

Horible public key tricks

https://maurycyz.com/projects/badcert/
152•Curiositry•8h ago•46 comments

Ultorg: The User Interface for Relational Databases

https://www.ultorg.com/
50•Ivoah•4h ago•12 comments

Formalizing CPython

https://broyojo.com/python-formalization/
58•carnevalem•6h ago•25 comments

A failed experiment in laptop cooling

https://kevinboone.me/failed_cooling.html
31•andsoitis•2d ago•27 comments

Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/10/magenta-solar-panels-may-be-agrivoltaics-cleverest-t...
311•speckx•18h ago•204 comments

CoreWeave bond yield tops 16% as AI credit stress rises

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/06/coreweave-bond-yield-tops-16percent-as-ai-credit-stress-rises.html
136•lxm•5h ago•92 comments

M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/09/m-john-harrison-the-end-of-everything-wins-2026-boo...
29•sorokod•1h ago•5 comments

The first 300-millimeter power silicon carbide (SiC) wafer

https://www.infineon.com/press-release/2026/infpr202611-028
135•sshah03•14h ago•71 comments

A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization

https://www.nabo.dev/blogs/kernel-primer
143•nomi_uw•4d ago•12 comments

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

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337•a585gupt•14h ago•59 comments

Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers

https://www.notion.com/help/security-incident-involving-a-third-party-ai-vendor
9•werrett•1h ago•3 comments

Muse Ember: Our smallest, most efficient model

https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-ember
295•dvaplima•14h ago•119 comments

Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators

https://github.com/thisisme6598/gemini_files/
581•gf74918•14h ago•128 comments

Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game

https://notesbylex.com/fable-5-2-one-shotted-my-nephews-dream-game
379•lexandstuff•9h ago•257 comments

ClickHouse Acquires Xata

https://xata.io/blog/xata-is-joining-clickhouse
10•mebcitto•2h ago•1 comments

Never Gonna Print You Up

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39•ta988•2d ago•0 comments

On Being an Engineer in 2026

https://twitter.com/shaharglazner/status/2119796029256032278
98•talboren•17h ago•138 comments

Time for AVIF everywhere?

https://www.michaelponders.com/2026/11/isnt-it-time-for-avif-everywhere.html
71•speckx•2d ago•56 comments

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https://meowdisplay.app/
97•raiseCatError•14h ago•37 comments

Exact – a new cross platform UI framework

https://github.com/expo/exact
118•vmg12•9h ago•81 comments

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

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77•parkgraph•12h ago•64 comments

China drafts lifetime ID codes for every robot it makes, not just humanoids

https://asia-tech-news.ghost.io/china-drafts-lifetime-id-codes-for-every-robot-it-makes-not-just-...
12•ilamont•2d 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
•
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.