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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post
101•zplizzi•1h ago•36 comments

The revolt of the reader

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/
107•chmaynard•4h ago•30 comments

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-launch-norway-a...
370•bookmtn•5h ago•194 comments

Learn Programming with OCaml

https://usr.lmf.cnrs.fr/lpo/
178•elvis70•9h ago•73 comments

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

https://devquasar.com/hardware/the-60-gaming-pc-amd-bc-250/
280•networked•12h ago•85 comments

Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/finite-time-blowup-for-an-averaged-three-dimensional-na...
58•gmays•5h ago•23 comments

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

https://collusion.wiki/
2112•moultano•1d ago•1517 comments

How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-swiss-table-map/index.html
45•valyala•2d ago•3 comments

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

https://sofiabelen.github.io/projects/visualizing-rusts-vtables-how-dyn-trait-works-in-memory/
133•torutofu•12h ago•19 comments

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046
745•negura•1d ago•442 comments

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances
634•Cider9986•1d ago•307 comments

Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor

https://github.com/iczelia/balrogg
63•palaiologos•2d ago•8 comments

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344
179•canjobear•5h ago•152 comments

Show HN: Fly By – retro biplane flying game

https://michaelteter.com/flyby.html
46•michaelteter•4d ago•31 comments

Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/09/02/delidded-intel-i9-14900ks
64•willx86•3d ago•1 comments

OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents

https://github.com/okf-memory/okf-agent-memory
32•okf_memory•3h ago•14 comments

The Double Matthew Walker Knot by Fable 5.1

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/06fd26a5-403c-47c8-af49-dcf6c35ec55c
20•nemesis17•2d ago•9 comments

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html
34•ExMachina73•2h ago•0 comments

CHC5: Open Camera System – Image Sensor Specification Comparison

https://www.circuitvalley.com/2026/08/chc5-open-camera-sensor-comparison-specification.html
11•devoxel•3d ago•1 comments

Topologist's Map of the World

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/09/01/small-world-20/
27•beardyw•4d ago•10 comments

Terpstra Keyboard

http://terpstrakeyboard.com/
115•cl3misch•15h ago•54 comments

Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss1DUqLjecc
86•stefan_•5h ago•18 comments

Stopping the Unstoppable: When an unstoppable force meets a dashpot snubber

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/9/1/stopping-the-unstoppable
51•crescit_eundo•4d ago•6 comments

ISAR Aerospace 5 Sept Mission Onward and Upward

https://isaraerospace.com/mission-updates-overview
16•t43562•6h ago•1 comments

Steffen's Polyhedron

https://www.gregegan.net/SCIENCE/Steffen/Steffen.html
53•pavel_lishin•2d ago•5 comments

Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

https://www.statichost.eu/
445•p4bl0•1d ago•203 comments

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/
382•iopapa•1d ago•209 comments

A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/spartan-and-the-mime/
79•rfarley04•13h ago•10 comments

South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones

https://www.wsj.com/business/diamond-mines-are-closing-and-south-africans-have-few-alternatives-f...
87•bookofjoe•4h ago•70 comments

Singapore subway (mrt) information display types

https://www.sgtrains.com/technology-infosys.html
44•gregorvand•3d ago•16 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.