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FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers

https://freeink.org/
52•FriedPickles•58m ago•10 comments

Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/benin-coral-reef
206•speckx•3h ago•31 comments

Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flas...
443•logickkk1•4h ago•357 comments

Apple has decided to compete for creativity app users

https://alex4d.com/notes/item/apple-competing-for-creativity-app-users
28•speckx•1h ago•1 comments

Advertise in ChatGPT

https://ads.openai.com/
106•montecarl•38m ago•107 comments

Meta's AI Models Are Powering the First Wave of Genesis Mission Projects

https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-d...
59•surprisetalk•2h ago•40 comments

Apple Private Cloud Compute SoC 3 audit reports

https://support.apple.com/guide/certifications/apple-private-cloud-compute-soc-3-audit-apc95a31b9...
31•throwfaraway4•1h ago•2 comments

AI makes programming differently difficult

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-didnt-make-programming-easier-it-just-made-it-differently-difficult/
75•tchalla•1h ago•31 comments

Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy

https://github.com/Kalcode/spaceprojectsim
22•kalcode•1h ago•3 comments

Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-3.0
495•ilreb•10h ago•203 comments

Bloomy (YC S26) is hiring a founding engineer

1•alexsouthmayd•2h ago

PCjs Machines

https://www.pcjs.org/
146•naves•5h ago•13 comments

France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027

https://postquantum.com/security-pqc/anssi-pqc-certification-2027/
59•Sami_Lehtinen•3h ago•15 comments

The World's 2,400 Castles

https://thecastlemap.com/
123•marklit•3h ago•91 comments

AI Agent – TRMNL

https://help.trmnl.com/en/articles/14130438-ai-agent
10•joeyespo•1h ago•6 comments

Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)

https://blog.qstars.nl/posts/cheap-self-hosted-kubernetes-on-hetzner-cloud/
40•victorbrink•1h ago•16 comments

Show HN: CodeAlmanac – Karpathy-style codebase wiki from your conversations

https://github.com/AlmanacCode/codealmanac/
19•divitsheth•2h ago•8 comments

The unreasonable difficulty of time series forecasting

https://suzyahyah.github.io/machine%20learning/2026/06/27/trouble-with-time-series.html
69•suzyahyah•3d ago•21 comments

Show HN: Imagin Raw – A 9MB Open-Source Alternative to Adobe Bridge for Mac

https://github.com/cristibaluta/Imagin-Raw
33•cristi_baluta•2h ago•8 comments

The Price of Happiness

https://happiness-science.org/price-of-happiness/
8•andyjohnson0•54m ago•1 comments

Uhubctl – control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs

https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl
22•gregsadetsky•2h ago•7 comments

My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault

https://rootkitlabs.com/2026/06/22/I%27m-Building-a-Secure-USB-Drive/
79•machinehum•1d ago•54 comments

Laguna S 2.1

https://poolside.ai/blog/introducing-laguna-s-2-1
56•rexledesma•2h ago•5 comments

Greedy is optimal for single-pass semi-streaming matching

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14656
6•MarcoDewey•1h ago•0 comments

Slater – Low-memory graphdb designed for read-heavy graphs

https://github.com/Hikari-Systems/slater
7•rickkjp•57m ago•3 comments

Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

https://runtimewire.com/article/jack-dorsey-block-buzz-team-chat-ai-agents-git
76•ryanmerket•2h ago•75 comments

Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/07/apple-defeats-liability-for-not-scanning-icloud-for...
222•speckx•5h ago•189 comments

Python 3.15's Ultra-Low Overhead Interpreter Profiling Mode – Ken Jin's Blog

https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/ultra-fast-tracing.html
131•rbanffy•6d ago•11 comments

YouTube System Design for Robotics Data Infrastructure

https://hebbianrobotics.com/blog/youtube-system-design-for-robotics-data-infrastructure
6•kstonekuan•1h ago•2 comments

Firefox Containers Preview

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-containers-preview/
70•twapi•2h ago•33 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.