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The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group

https://hunch.net/?p=13764006
203•srean•2h ago•105 comments

What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab

https://blog.bosscher.ch/posts/openstick/
138•LaurensBER•2h ago•24 comments

Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/06/struggling-to-spell-male-chauvinist-pig-apple-...
173•user_7832•3h ago•118 comments

Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller

https://github.com/hedgerow-dev/coldframe
122•hedgerow-dev•3h ago•30 comments

MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"

https://maxxbench.unlap.ai/research/why-maxxbench/
105•antiuniverse•3h ago•26 comments

Five memorable books about programming (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/19.html
45•andsoitis•3h ago•18 comments

Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

https://nfsu2.xyz/
652•fluxusars•11h ago•193 comments

The $8 Linux Computer (2022)

http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8-linux-computer.html
171•zenincognito•6h ago•77 comments

The Typo Generation Is Damaging Literature

https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-typo-generation-is-damaging-literature
33•bryanrasmussen•3d ago•36 comments

How Long Can Life Wait?

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/how-long-can-life-wait
84•Ariarule•4h ago•45 comments

Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier

https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph
494•infwhispers•11h ago•291 comments

Libghostty 1.0

https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-1-0
977•mfiguiere•21h ago•170 comments

Every processor die anyone has photographed and given away

https://sheets.works/data-viz/cpu-dies
46•user_7832•4h ago•11 comments

GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows' Upstart '90s Competitor

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-history-of-geoworks-microsoft-windows-upstart-90s-compe...
15•andsoitis•2h ago•0 comments

Running a law firm on Free software

https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/11/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2026-edition/
198•DeepLogin•11h ago•88 comments

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/every-windows-11-app-should-kill-electron-and-discord-ju...
115•thunderbong•9h ago•138 comments

Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside console.log

https://textjs.org/
65•nateb2022•3d ago•33 comments

Terry Pratchett's Study

https://www.sussi.dk/terry-pratchetts-study
39•ColinWright•4h ago•7 comments

Yes, You Can Pass a Nuclear Missile Driving on Interstate 80 Through Wyoming

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/11/04/yes-you-can-pass-a-nuclear-missile-driving-on-interstate-...
28•Bender•2d ago•9 comments

Show HN: We compressed a 31B video+audio diffusion model to 14B, 6 steps, INT8

https://github.com/Video-Rebirth/hyperflow-h3-flash
38•jiant•5h ago•11 comments

They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7

https://kevinboone.me/tpwin.html
148•andsoitis•4h ago•83 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3

https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/
261•ackyshake•15h ago•218 comments

A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals

https://www.science.org/content/article/barbarian-tribe-s-mythic-origin-story-true-ancient-dna-re...
182•benbreen•15h ago•169 comments

What do the next 4000 emoji look like?

https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/what-do-the-next-4000-emoji-look
76•lacieargyle•2d ago•72 comments

We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?

https://scotthelme.co.uk/we-know-15-579-websites-are-infected-how-do-we-tell-them/
169•speckx•1d ago•140 comments

British Library Legal deposit and web archiving

https://www.bl.uk/services/legal-deposit/web-archiving
54•robtherobber•4d ago•25 comments

The Components of Agent Memory

https://www.anthropic.com/research/components-of-agent-memory
136•geoffbp•14h ago•69 comments

The Gordon Gekko Effect: The Role of Culture in the Financial Industry [pdf] (2016)

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/2016/epr_2016_gordon-gekko-effect_lo.pdf
42•tylerdane•6h ago•24 comments

Optimising the Rail Cube

https://owenlacey.dev/railcube-optimisation/post
24•owenlacey•4d ago•1 comments

A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost

https://hightouch.com/blog/llm-judges-identity-resolution
567•theanomaly•1d ago•142 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
•
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.