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Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

https://www.marfapublicradio.org/podcast/marfa-public-radio-puts-you-to-sleep
88•reaperducer•2h ago•26 comments

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

https://decomp-academy.dev
67•jackpriceburns•3h ago•24 comments

AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes/blob/main/rdma_cluster/setup_guide.md
75•jakogut•4h ago•9 comments

Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days

https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium
723•binyu•14h ago•282 comments

OpenRA

https://www.openra.net/
621•tosh•16h ago•123 comments

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html
99•pawal•6h ago•31 comments

Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai-automation-human-workers-b3003787.html
59•speckx•1h ago•34 comments

Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM

https://github.com/itsthelore/wayfinder-router
3•handfuloflight•22m ago•0 comments

Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/ancient-clay-tablets-show-markets-worked-4000-years-before-ec...
13•NaOH•4d ago•1 comments

Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display

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35•uticus•1d ago•6 comments

Regular expressions that work "everywhere"

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/23/regex-everywhere/
29•ColinWright•2d ago•12 comments

Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC

https://dobrowolski.dev/article/enhancing-x11-application-security-with-lxc/
52•shirozuki•7h ago•15 comments

Fintech Engineering Handbook

https://w.pitula.me/fintech-engineering-handbook/
502•signa11•18h ago•163 comments

AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-radio-chip-design
206•Brajeshwar•3d ago•138 comments

Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You

https://www.thedrive.com/news/feds-killed-polestar-and-spared-volvo-that-should-terrify-you
68•mraniki•2h ago•41 comments

Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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183•eustoria•11h ago•81 comments

Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams

https://jayacunzo.com/blog/your-move-chief
121•herbertl•3h ago•69 comments

The case for physical media ownership

https://dervis.de/physical/
388•cemdervis•17h ago•256 comments

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-expor...
184•bogdiyan•15h ago•145 comments

Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)

https://danluu.com/discontinuities/
223•tosh•15h ago•70 comments

WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups

https://clickhouse.com/blog/walrus-postgres-backups-in-rust
28•saisrirampur•5h ago•1 comments

Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada

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173•bushwart•3d ago•96 comments

IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

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270•arm32•9h ago•134 comments

Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on

https://cephalosec.com/blog/cybersecurity-in-the-post-mythos-era-keep-calm-and-carry-on/
140•Versipelle•14h ago•46 comments

DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSpec/blob/main/DSpark_paper.pdf
743•aurenvale•19h ago•311 comments

How do you keep Web MIDI from crashing a 1983 synthesizer?

https://knob.monster/how-do-you-keep-web-midi-from-crashing-a-1983-synthesizer
31•halfradaition•3d ago•14 comments

Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for Multigres

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/2e718684-4f75-4a99-8d6b-3b6bd44e4228
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What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis

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120•randycupertino•7h ago•273 comments

How a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya's sand cat does exist

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/24/youtube-video-proved-libya-sand-cat-exist-aoe
33•n1b0m•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work

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103•kageroumado•8h ago•67 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.