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Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/
71•ibobev•1h ago•19 comments

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
219•ai2027•2h ago•200 comments

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html
79•javaeeeee•2h ago•35 comments

Hacker Public Radio

https://hackerpublicradio.org/
74•bmacho•2h ago•8 comments

Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
10•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-everyone-trying-to-build-a
102•crescit_eundo•4h ago•126 comments

Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rise-reforming/jobs/wJ9Q9nv-senior-chemical-process-engineer
1•george_rose25•21m ago

Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

https://www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm
79•ryannevius•4h ago•25 comments

RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

https://mnot.net/blog/2020/for_the_users
81•notarobot123•4h ago•24 comments

Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

https://prized.dev
49•marinoseliades•3h ago•26 comments

How to Mount a Balcony Awning

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/07/how-to-mount-a-balcony-awning/
12•karakoram•5d ago•0 comments

SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library

https://github.com/n67094/sdl_gp
38•n67094•2h ago•13 comments

Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2

https://www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/
189•alberto-m•9h ago•88 comments

Toot.community Is Shutting Down

https://social.jorijn.com/@jorijn/statuses/01KYN00AP3NCZXCFB96KQB8GN2
9•speckx•48m ago•3 comments

Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset?

https://rusty.today/blog/paging-parquet-duckdb-file-row-number-vs-offset/
25•rustyconover•2h ago•3 comments

Are We Stuck with Lean?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/513742/are-we-stuck-with-lean
83•jjgreen•5h ago•33 comments

RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-OpIbLUOU0
18•evakhoury•20h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

https://github.com/hamzarehmandeveloper/claude-account
17•hamza_rehman•2h ago•11 comments

How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mexico-olinia-car-electric-vehicle
5•rbanffy•44m ago•1 comments

How old is Ann?

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/07/29/how-old-is-ann/
46•ibobev•5h ago•48 comments

Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine

https://bsid.io/writing/building-a-cel-engine-for-net
35•jackedEngineer•2d ago•7 comments

Gpiozero Flow

https://bennuttall.com/blog/2026/07/gpiozero-flow/
111•benn_88•6h ago•33 comments

3D Pinball for Windows (1995)

https://98.js.org/programs/pinball/space-cadet.html
68•mushstory•5h ago•33 comments

Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures

https://blog.certisfy.com/2026/04/trusted-urls-via-cryptographic.html
12•Edmond•2h ago•11 comments

Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates

https://select.supply/game/chipbuilder
49•laurentiurad•5h ago•51 comments

The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)

https://hex.ooo/library/alicebob.html
31•kamma4434•3d ago•5 comments

Azulejo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azulejo
145•Amorymeltzer•1d ago•46 comments

Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)

https://github.com/grafana/ai-sdk
49•matryer•5h ago•13 comments

The Glass Famine

https://edconway.substack.com/p/the-glass-famine
94•baud147258•3d ago•49 comments

CosmosEscape: Taking over Every Database in Azure Cosmos DB

https://www.wiz.io/blog/cosmosescape-taking-over-every-database-in-azure-cosmos-db
45•uvuv•5h 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.