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Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/
105•justinweiss•1h ago•38 comments

The Dead Economy Theory

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory
104•WillDaSilva•1h ago•86 comments

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

https://rockstarintel.com/gta-6-developers-announce-rockstar-games-union/
167•AndrewKemendo•1h ago•66 comments

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/
402•PinkG•2h ago•273 comments

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris

https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summit
9•vnglst•38m ago•0 comments

High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building

https://commonedge.org/high-density-living-2000-years-ago-inside-the-roman-apartment-building/
80•surprisetalk•4h ago•23 comments

Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/danish-pension-fund-blacklists-spacex-citing-g...
124•leopoldj•1h ago•66 comments

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents

https://research.roundtable.ai/captchas-detect-ai/
9•timshell•1h ago•0 comments

Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)

https://dutchreview.com/culture/tulip-mania-netherlands/
113•dotcoma•5h ago•104 comments

Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request

https://blog.kog.ai/real-time-llm-inference-on-standard-gpus-3-000-tokens-s-per-request/
147•NicoConstant•7h ago•69 comments

Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test

https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/2060164928472854821
421•enraged_camel•15h ago•423 comments

The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/the-uk-governments-low-value-purchase-system-is-a-waste-of-time/
121•ColinWright•4h ago•72 comments

Someone used my open source project to phish 14,000 people

https://andrej.sh/posts/phishing-through-my-open-source-project
23•andrejsshell•3h ago•4 comments

Durable execution, the hard way

https://github.com/hatchet-dev/durable-execution-the-hard-way
15•abelanger•1d ago•0 comments

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

https://www.404media.co/headway-therapy-facial-scan-biometric-data-identity-verification/
64•pavel_lishin•2h ago•16 comments

Cedana (YC S23) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cedana/jobs/d1vYocG-forward-deployed-engineer-ai-hpc
1•neelm•4h ago

Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You

https://buildingbetter.tech/p/i-read-the-claude-code-source-code
303•ankitg12•14h ago•60 comments

The Secret Garden of Rock-Paper-Scissors

https://theshamblog.com/the-secret-garden-of-rock-paper-scissors/
14•scottshambaugh•2h ago•1 comments

Orchestrating AI code review at scale

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-code-review/
99•pramodbiligiri•3d ago•37 comments

The Framework 12 is dead. Apple killed it [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPVAnwuSjfk
5•throwaway2037•1h ago•4 comments

Claude Opus 4.8

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8
1688•craigmart•1d ago•1311 comments

Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

https://mybricklog.com/blog/bricks-minifigs-corporate-stole-old-mans-200000-lego-collection
1220•philips•21h ago•536 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/
143•goranmoomin•13h ago•48 comments

Even (very) noisy LLM evaluators are useful for improving AI agents

https://www.tensorzero.com/blog/even-very-noisy-llm-evaluators-are-useful-for-improving-ai-agents/
22•GabrielBianconi•2d ago•5 comments

Local Git Remotes

https://cblgh.org/posts/local-git-remotes/
60•surprisetalk•4h ago•46 comments

We should be more tired than the model

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/05/28/we-should-be-more-tired-than-the-model/
86•tosh•4h ago•82 comments

An Obsessive Focus on UX: Pilot's Pressure-Regulating Kire-Na Highlighter

https://www.core77.com/posts/143832/An-Obsessive-Focus-on-UX-Pilots-Pressure-Regulating-Kire-Na-H...
45•surprisetalk•3d ago•11 comments

Is AI causing a repeat of Front end's Lost Decade?

https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2026-05-23-is-AI-causing-a-repeat-of-frontends-lost-decade/
186•xyzal•5h ago•179 comments

Wterm – Terminal Emulator for the Web

https://wterm.dev/
38•m3h•8h ago•11 comments

Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion

https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet/issues/967
330•Kwastie•11h ago•168 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.