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Rocketlab acquires Iridium

https://investors.rocketlabcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rocket-lab-acquire-iridium...
64•everfrustrated•1h ago•36 comments

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-run-a-gpu-kernel/
62•mezark•2h ago•4 comments

Building Principia for Windows XP

https://voxelmanip.se/2026/06/28/building-principia-for-windows-xp/
60•LorenDB•2h ago•11 comments

Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]

https://www.apollo.com/content/dam/apolloaem/pdf/daily-spark/2026/jun/28/062826-Mag7.pdf
102•mooreds•1h ago•75 comments

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

https://humphri.es/blog/WATaBoy/
17•energeticbark•41m ago•0 comments

CachyOS June 2026 Release

https://cachyos.org/blog/2606-june-release/
17•simonpure•1h ago•1 comments

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

https://www.cpushack.com/2026/06/03/sandia-national-labs-sa3000-8085-cpu/
102•rbanffy•5h ago•26 comments

Tidal AI Policy

https://tidal.com/ai-policy
168•hn8726•2h ago•198 comments

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

https://danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank-open-source-ats
774•sambellll•13h ago•331 comments

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/venice-bridge-fights/
8•pepys•2d ago•1 comments

Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

https://twitter.com/i/status/2071277885646868536
119•notRobot•2h ago•45 comments

WebGL Without a GPU

https://microlink.io/blog/webgl-without-a-gpu
8•Kikobeats•42m ago•3 comments

Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pollen-tried-to-remove-my-article-about-callum-negus-fancey-an...
622•taubek•6h ago•91 comments

Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship

https://thomasdullien.github.io/guides/entrepreneurship/
102•nekitamo•4d ago•28 comments

Rebuilding the Computer Room

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/computer-room/
47•ingve•4h ago•18 comments

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing

https://en.sedaily.com/international/2026/06/29/samsung-sk-hynix-micron-sued-in-us-over-memory-pr...
122•donohoe•3h ago•52 comments

Type-checked non-empty strings

https://exploring-better-ways.bellroy.com/haskell-koan-type-checked-non-empty-strings.html
32•surprisetalk•3d ago•10 comments

The Meadows of Medieval Summer

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/meadows-medieval-summer
6•lermontov•3d ago•0 comments

Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/legal/psvideocontent/
78•kugelblitz•2h ago•32 comments

NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them

https://edera.dev/stories/numa-part-1-cores-memory-and-the-distance-between-them
93•sys_call•4d ago•16 comments

How we made WINDOW JOIN parallel and vectorized

https://questdb.com/blog/window-join-parallel-vectorized/
16•tosh•3d ago•0 comments

DocumentDB – a MongoDB compatible open-source database

https://documentdb.io/
9•amai•1h ago•1 comments

NixOS 26.05

https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2026/nixos-2605/
8•lostmsu•2h ago•0 comments

Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

https://schamper.dev/dissecting-apples-sparse-image-format-asif/
129•supermatou•23h ago•19 comments

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech

https://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026
792•arkhiver•12h ago•483 comments

Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

https://github.com/ogulcancelik/herdr
115•mzehrer•11h ago•75 comments

We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library

https://blog.cloudflare.com/hyper-bug/
136•Pop_-•4d ago•61 comments

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html
376•vga1•21h ago•140 comments

DeepSeek V4 Peak Valley Pricing Change

https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/deepseek-v4-launches-in-mid-july-with-peak-valley-pricing
14•lmartineng•4h ago•1 comments

GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/we-have-mythos-at-home-glm-52-beats-claude-in-our-cyber-benchmarks/
1021•jms703•21h ago•470 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.