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Do transformers need three projections? Systematic study of QKV variants

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04032
80•Anon84•2h ago•10 comments

Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery

https://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness
258•binyu•5h ago•88 comments

Meta enables adb on deprecated Portal devices

https://fb.watch/HxPu0fSyeH/
20•jenders•43m ago•7 comments

Alibaba/Open-Code-Review

https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review
20•geoffbp•1h ago•0 comments

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/
568•coloneltcb•12h ago•256 comments

Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux"

https://github.com/tarpediem/zenvision-linux
16•berlianta•2d ago•1 comments

When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement
326•meetpateltech•9h ago•426 comments

Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API

https://tiki.li/blog/blqsort
82•birdculture•2d ago•9 comments

Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers

https://cen.acs.org/materials/biobased-materials/queen-bees-special-wax/104/web/2026/06
45•gmays•3h ago•4 comments

I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2026/05/27/revolutionize-schooling/
51•andrewstuart•2d ago•76 comments

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm
503•mooreds•14h ago•190 comments

KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei

https://github.com/huawei-csl/KVarN
114•theanonymousone•10h ago•12 comments

Retro-Tech Parenting

https://havenweb.org/2026/05/28/retro-tech.html
243•mawise•9h ago•168 comments

Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS

https://www.mercek.dev/
24•utibeumanah•4h ago•4 comments

IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/ipv6-zones-go-url/
80•xena•3h ago•69 comments

Latent Agents: A Post-Training Procedure for Internalized Multi-Agent Debate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24881
10•PaulHoule•2h ago•0 comments

Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager

https://castor.web.cern.ch/content/home.html
42•naves•5h ago•18 comments

WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access

https://www.boxofcables.dev/wsl2-per-device-swiotlb-pools-for-virtiofs-and-virtioproxy/
56•haydenbarnes•6h ago•42 comments

Samurai City

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/samurai-city/
96•zdw•2d ago•14 comments

JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil

https://danielmangum.com/posts/jlink-jtag-pinecil/
37•hasheddan•2d ago•7 comments

Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images

https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/2026/05/28/smdBC8.html
61•henry_flower•3d ago•6 comments

Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring Founding FPGA Engineers

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1•el_al•8h ago

Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

https://www.buchodi.com/meta-glasses-facial-recognition/
223•buchodi•5h ago•202 comments

External Clock Generation on RTX 50 Series

https://www.xtremesystems.us/post/external-clock-generation-on-rtx-50-series
10•mfro•1d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites

https://uruky.com/?il=en
206•BrunoBernardino•16h ago•194 comments

Sum-product, unit distances, and number fields

https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/blog:6
55•robinhouston•3d ago•13 comments

Gaussian Point Splatting

https://momentsingraphics.de/Siggraph2026.html
175•ibobev•14h ago•65 comments

Show HN: Hitoku Draft – Context aware local assistant

https://hitoku.me/draft/
13•lostathome•7h ago•1 comments

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_Bay_Model
210•tosh•2d ago•53 comments

Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmp0krp98ro
120•mellosouls•2d ago•86 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.