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AI financial advice is surprisingly good if you ask the right questions

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/ai-financial-advice-surprisingly-good-especially-if...
104•foxtrot8672•2h ago•68 comments

Diátaxis

https://diataxis.fr/
156•ryanseys•4h ago•23 comments

Seedance 2.5

https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5
121•njaremko•3h ago•47 comments

Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation

https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2026-07-28
19•hhs•1h ago•7 comments

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/
107•juhopitk•6h ago•39 comments

But can your calculator run Linux?

https://raymii.org/s/articles/But_can_your_calculator_run_Linux.html
56•jandeboevrie•4h ago•4 comments

The Art of 64-bit Assembly

https://nostarch.com/art-64-bit-assembly-v2
179•0x54MUR41•10h ago•86 comments

CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting

https://censys.com/blog/cisa-alert-water-tower-plc-targeting/
60•speckx•5h ago•43 comments

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds
364•pudgywalsh•6h ago•131 comments

Morph (YC S23) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/morph/jobs/0Z8vI3K-member-of-technical-staff
1•bhaktatejas922•1h ago

RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc10015.html
5•Jimmc414•55m ago•0 comments

Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctography
48•nanna•4d ago•3 comments

NetBSD 11.0

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released
203•jaypatelani•6h ago•85 comments

RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/3494
245•throwaway2037•12h ago•166 comments

Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

https://alexiglad.github.io/blog/2026/explorative_modeling/
75•DSemba•9h ago•21 comments

Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07/the-disc-is-not-the-game-physical-releases-increasingly-re...
91•rbanffy•1d ago•77 comments

A stray commit buried multiple levels deep cost me months

https://www.droppedasbaby.com/posts/db-commits/
25•offbyone42•1h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Legionlinuxtui – Control Lenovo legion laptops in the terminal

https://github.com/nooneknowspeter/legionlinuxtui
6•nooneknowspeter•2d ago•0 comments

Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga

https://www.seriouseats.com/30-minute-pressure-cooker-pho-ga-recipe
84•stasomatic•8h ago•53 comments

Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast

https://brandur.org/fragments/pgtestdb
61•brandur•8h ago•36 comments

Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor

https://glyphsapp.com
45•microflash•4d ago•8 comments

Anime User Interfaces

https://animeuserinterface.tumblr.com
45•akyuu•1h ago•8 comments

Designing Icons

https://m3.material.io/styles/icons/designing-icons
5•Cider9986•1d ago•0 comments

Linux on ESP32

https://github.com/GrieferPig/esp32-s31-linux
95•boveyking•4d ago•33 comments

RamenHaus

https://ramen.haus/
224•oler•15h ago•106 comments

Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

https://kaisel.dev/
51•TheWiggles•7h ago•8 comments

A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/a-surveillance-treaty-in-disguise-the-trouble-with-canadas-qu...
264•iamnothere•10h ago•145 comments

Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/
251•vinhnx•21h ago•66 comments

The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05283
44•wglb•5d ago•18 comments

Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-page-to-token-amount-what/167153
300•EugeneOZ•9h ago•131 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.