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Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-c...
622•bratao•4h ago•373 comments

Muse Spark 1.3

https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/
49•bvaldivielso•19m ago•11 comments

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html
46•donohoe•5h ago•16 comments

Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-fo...
311•teekert•7h ago•131 comments

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-p...
199•randycupertino•6h ago•51 comments

Introducing Muse Spark 1.3

https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-spark-1-3
23•scrlk•28m ago•4 comments

Wendell Berry has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.html
34•Curiositry•1d ago•18 comments

The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified

https://www.marginallycompelling.com/p/the-american-worker-vs-the-most-qualified
22•skmurphy•1h ago•17 comments

Exit the Cave

https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave
151•akkartik•5h ago•39 comments

Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them

https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/
148•mdp2021•6h ago•64 comments

SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods

https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15597
74•HelloUsername•4h ago•40 comments

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/
237•jakobgreenfeld•5h ago•109 comments

Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982

https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-64-released-september-1-1982/
292•giuliomagnifico•11h ago•142 comments

Poisson Disk Sampling

https://stripeacross.com/posts/poisson-disk-sampling/
98•vismit2000•6h ago•14 comments

A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards

https://clui.org/collections/los-alamos-business-cards/selection-cards
108•1970-01-01•2d ago•23 comments

Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

https://forums.paint.net/topic/134562-paintnet-52-alpha-build-9739/
120•judah•2h ago•102 comments

The Qantas A380 engine disintegration in 2010

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62d...
11•gumby•1h ago•1 comments

We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cache-transcoding/
25•torutofu•1d ago•2 comments

I Don't Have a Smartphone

https://ploum.net/2026-09-02-i_dont_have_a_smartphone.html
135•speckx•2h ago•122 comments

The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

https://www.jordangoodman.xyz/the-post-ai-internet-doesnt-look-great/
5•speckx•13m ago•0 comments

Check if a file was made with Claude

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134•frexs•7h ago•89 comments

Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/65/async-rust-vs-rtos-showdown/
9•kooi•1h ago•1 comments

A note on subscription prices from LWN

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090585/
639•rwky•6h ago•125 comments

WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine

https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm
60•saikatsg•5h ago•14 comments

Making the Internet Boring

https://cemrehancavdar.com/2026/08/30/making-the-internet-boring/
28•zdw•2d ago•14 comments

Humanity has built the records of FATE by accident

https://ariadne.space/2026/09/01/humanity-has-built-the-records.html
10•miniBill•53m ago•8 comments

Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf]

https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/consensus-policies/rsep-2026013-name-request-15-04-2026-en.pdf
36•greyface-•1d ago•28 comments

Telli (YC F24) is hiring engineers and designers [Berlin, on-site]

https://careers.telli.com/
1•sebselassie•11h ago

Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x

https://frontierharness.org
51•shiqimei•3h ago•29 comments

GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117194007157499435
160•user_7832•5h ago•118 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.