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OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future

https://overpaid.lol
459•ignaloidas•3h ago•207 comments

Back to Kagi

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/back-to-kagi/
84•speckx•1h ago•61 comments

Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

https://blog.fiddery.com/businesses-with-ugly-ai-menu-redesigns/
77•speckx•1h ago•40 comments

Why Do You Suck at Juggling?

https://pgadey.ca/notes/suck-at-juggling/
20•surprisetalk•1w ago•11 comments

OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
1384•mfiguiere•18h ago•931 comments

Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1

https://hashcloak.com/blog/tutorial-introduction-to-formal-verification-with-lean-(part-1)
131•badcryptobitch•2d ago•15 comments

Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA

https://fireworks.ai/blog/kimik3-fable
766•piotrgrabowski•15h ago•397 comments

Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon

https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/intel-starts-shipping-high-na-euv
156•zdw•3d ago•59 comments

10 REM"_(C2SLFF4

https://beej.us/blog/data/mystery-comment/
28•ingve•2h ago•4 comments

Cornell's Interactive Wall of Birds

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/features/wallofbirds/?_hsmi=428996456
23•yareally•3d ago•4 comments

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
120•noteness•8h ago•36 comments

Advertise in ChatGPT

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943•montecarl•19h ago•722 comments

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Gaming Performance for Less – HotHardware

https://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-7-7700x3d-gaming-cpu-review
35•rbanffy•3d ago•32 comments

FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers

https://freeink.org/
645•FriedPickles•19h ago•133 comments

Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude

https://apnews.com/article/ai-anthropic-copyright-settlement-claude-books-bartz-74b140444023898ae...
470•BeetleB•19h ago•437 comments

Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flas...
726•logickkk1•22h ago•544 comments

Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people

https://late.sh/
246•itherseed•11h ago•86 comments

A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/
288•jeremyscanvic•17h ago•119 comments

ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space

https://screenwall.app/
66•buibuibui•5d ago•26 comments

Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)

http://hintjens.com/blog:99
181•emerongi•12h ago•76 comments

Never Enough

https://dark.ronacher.eu/2026/7/21/never-enough/
102•reasonableklout•10h ago•36 comments

Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

https://runtimewire.com/article/jack-dorsey-block-buzz-team-chat-ai-agents-git
347•ryanmerket•20h ago•306 comments

"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-drawing-arena-colored-pencils-claude-gpt-grok
227•hershyb_•16h ago•80 comments

Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/benin-coral-reef
370•speckx•22h ago•84 comments

Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/07/apple-defeats-liability-for-not-scanning-icloud-for...
437•speckx•23h ago•471 comments

It's a shame what's happened to radio

https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/07/21/its-a-shame-whats-happened-to-radio-3/
162•sonicrocketman•14h ago•181 comments

Overload and insight look identical from the outside

https://pilgrima.ge/p/what-the-wire-knows
10•momentmaker•3d ago•0 comments

Laguna S 2.1

https://poolside.ai/blog/introducing-laguna-s-2-1
373•rexledesma•20h ago•69 comments

Map of the world's great castles and fortresses

https://thecastlemap.com/
286•marklit•22h ago•181 comments

Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/latest-model
114•greatgib•16h ago•39 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
•
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.