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GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex

https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2073933490513752151
276•mfiguiere•8h ago•197 comments

Has_not_been_viewed_much

https://iamwillwang.com/notes/has-not-been-viewed-much/
278•wxw•9h ago•71 comments

When AI Costs More Than the Engineer

https://tomtunguz.com/ai-spend-breakeven-2029/
66•kiyanwang•2h ago•56 comments

Organic Maps

https://organicmaps.app/
967•tosh•18h ago•292 comments

Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds

https://kyrall.com/
21•OsamaAtwi•2h ago•8 comments

Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped

https://www.uncommonapps.nyc/p/castro-podcasts-things-i-got-wrong-support
111•dabluck•7h ago•68 comments

It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership

https://popcar.bearblog.dev/its-about-ownership/
477•popcar2•18h ago•357 comments

OpenPrinter

https://www.opentools.studio/
832•bouh•12h ago•206 comments

Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years

https://homegames.io
174•homegamesjoseph•11h ago•41 comments

Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20049
115•softwaredoug•10h ago•62 comments

Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nzzpUKhj1M
15•Semkas•2d ago•0 comments

The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming

https://geastack.com/blog-the-age-of-personalized-hardware-is-coming
57•arbayi•4d ago•35 comments

The Private Capture of Public Genius

https://www.wysr.xyz/p/the-private-capture-of-public-genius
105•martialg•9h ago•52 comments

Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected

https://www.reuters.com/business/zuckerberg-says-ai-agent-development-going-slower-than-expected-...
220•cwwc•3d ago•388 comments

Completing a computer science degree on Coursera

https://notesbylex.com/completing-a-computer-science-degree-on-coursera
199•lexandstuff•11h ago•123 comments

Starring the Computer

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html
226•gitowiec•15h ago•50 comments

The future of Flipper Zero development

https://blog.flipper.net/future-of-flipper-zero-development/
316•croes•14h ago•133 comments

New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]

https://intextbooks.science.uu.nl/workshop2026/files/itb26_s1s2.pdf
161•jonahbard•14h ago•96 comments

Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata

https://tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi/residenssi/heikki/blog/004-december-2/
175•jfil•3d ago•38 comments

Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly?

https://nicole.express/2026/phase-altering-by-line.html
93•zdw•11h ago•7 comments

Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July

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122•randycupertino•13h ago•210 comments

DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world

https://github.com/514-labs/dnsglobe
59•Callicles•11h ago•40 comments

Modernizing a 25-year-old minimal C++ unit testing framework (Part 2)

https://freshsources.com/code-capsules/test-part2/
15•chuckallison•3d ago•1 comments

The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?

https://danielstanica.com/posts/Great-Blogging-Collapse
176•thm•3d ago•133 comments

The Sneakerweb

https://sneakerweb.org/
57•GalaxyNova•7h ago•14 comments

Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/cursed-circuits-capacitance-multiplier
88•surprisetalk•13h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Visualize Model Spikiness in 3D

https://www.modelmap.tech/
5•afunk•3d ago•2 comments

Dungeon Proof Crawler: learn how to write proofs with RPG

https://dhilst.github.io/algae/game/index.html
62•SchwKatze•12h ago•15 comments

The Writers Who Wrote the Most in History

https://brennan.day/compulsion-the-writers-who-wrote-the-most-in-history/
42•bookofjoe•4d ago•18 comments

Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork

https://raymii.org/s/blog/Run_Windows_2000_for_Dec_Alpha_on_a_new_es40_fork.html
118•jandeboevrie•19h ago•68 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.