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Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
138•metrofun•2h ago•37 comments

Creepy Crawlies

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
453•zdw•1d ago•213 comments

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
49•rzk•2h ago•22 comments

Running SQLite Apps on Docker and Kubernetes with Litestream

https://openrun.dev/blog/litestream/
9•ajayvk•50m ago•2 comments

Hacking IKEA Furniture

https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
197•greenlightning•7h ago•110 comments

METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-offer-holy-postmortem-of-the-huggingface...
79•catbird•4h ago•30 comments

Electric rain can eat through metal

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electric-rain-can-eat-through-metal/
49•sohkamyung•3d ago•9 comments

Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-08-27
42•tosh•4h ago•10 comments

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement
200•nickslaughter02•3h ago•75 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES

https://www.artie.com/careers?ashby_jid=e87b84d2-78b3-41a3-937a-47e83643cdf1
1•j-cheong•1h ago

Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8
231•surprisetalk•3d ago•111 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
171•vntok•10h ago•71 comments

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/
214•trap0xcc•2h ago•214 comments

Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals

https://kabaragoya.com/products/storm-summoner
7•peteforde•2d ago•0 comments

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
173•joebig•10h ago•50 comments

Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/dads-custom-atari-peripherals
46•rbanffy•3d ago•9 comments

Synchronisation and SMPTE timecode (time code)

https://www.philrees.co.uk/articles/timecode.htm
8•sublinear•2d ago•1 comments

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/
137•Brajeshwar•4h ago•156 comments

When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-fruit-is-scarce-these-monkeys-hunt-animals-the-beh...
37•cisc•1d ago•13 comments

What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s

https://askmike.org/articles/ai-coding-lessons-in-the-90s-from-my-dad/
96•askmike•6d ago•45 comments

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/windows.html
41•Bluestein•7h ago•8 comments

Bug Blindness

https://danluu.com/bug-blind/
365•davidmckenna•18h ago•233 comments

RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

https://blog.python.org/2026/08/riscv-now-officially-supported/
279•lumpa•5d ago•48 comments

Building my own network stack

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/dn42-2-dnet/
81•uneven9434•9h ago•64 comments

Automating Immersive Reading

https://smoores.dev/post/automating_immersive_reading/
61•smoores•7h ago•18 comments

Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66504
133•sparsesignal•6h ago•164 comments

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/
366•shenli3514•23h ago•232 comments

monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter

https://github.com/fugue-labs/monty-go
38•networked•6h ago•11 comments

Orbs

https://ampcode.com/notes/orbs-explained
82•tosh•5d ago•35 comments

JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps

https://blog.jupyter.org/jupytergis-0-16-new-visualization-capabilities-collaborative-story-maps-...
88•arjxn-py•5d ago•9 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
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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.