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Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows

https://mouseless.click
108•riddley•2d ago•64 comments

Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03673
218•mimorigasaka•5h ago•88 comments

Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements

https://redis.io/blog/announcing-redis-8-8/
93•ksec•2d ago•41 comments

Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity

https://www.quantamagazine.org/entanglement-builds-space-time-now-magic-gives-it-gravity-20260603/
93•rbanffy•5h ago•62 comments

Changing how we develop Ladybird

https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/
552•EdwinHoksberg•7h ago•365 comments

Cooldown Support for Ruby Bundler

https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/06/03/cooldown-let-new-gems-be-vetted.html
12•calyhre•2d ago•0 comments

C++: The Documentary

https://herbsutter.com/2026/06/04/c-the-documentary-released-today/
245•ingve•9h ago•153 comments

databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver

https://columnar.tech/blog/introducing-databow//
85•hckshr•2d ago•17 comments

Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995

https://passo.uno/fine-tuning-docs-llm/
127•taubek•8h ago•46 comments

ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol

https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate
81•geotp•6h ago•33 comments

Nango (YC W23, dev infra) is hiring staff back end engineers

https://nango.dev/careers
1•bastienbeurier•2h ago

Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]

https://fb.watch/HxPu0fSyeH/
261•jenders•13h ago•103 comments

Leap in DNA synthesis slashes time to build new genetic sequences

https://spectrum.ieee.org/faster-dna-synthesis-sidewinder
75•natalcleft•20h ago•15 comments

Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/lee-kuan-yews-singapore-story
60•pepys•7h ago•64 comments

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

https://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness
473•binyu•18h ago•129 comments

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

https://www.boxofcables.dev/azure-linux-4-0-is-microsofts-first-general-purpose-linux/
123•haydenbarnes•11h ago•109 comments

At the Autograph Show

https://oldster.substack.com/p/at-the-autograph-show
17•NaOH•2d ago•1 comments

The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once

https://isupmap.com/
94•mikelgan•9h ago•36 comments

Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other

https://blog.plover.com/2026/03/09/#documentation-wins-2
63•surprisetalk•1h ago•64 comments

I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2026/05/27/revolutionize-schooling/
244•andrewstuart•2d ago•369 comments

Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works

https://adblock.turtlecute.org/
5•eustoria•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens

https://github.com/zdk/lowfat
37•zdkaster•5h ago•22 comments

Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool

https://github.com/alibaba/open-code-review
220•geoffbp•14h ago•66 comments

Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/communication-european-tech-sovereignty-accompan...
67•jrepinc•3h ago•40 comments

Do transformers need three projections? Systematic study of QKV variants

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04032
192•Anon84•15h ago•36 comments

Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

https://www.buchodi.com/meta-glasses-facial-recognition/
284•buchodi•18h ago•250 comments

Ohbin – uv wrapper for installing tools from GitHub

https://github.com/prostomarkeloff/ohbin
27•notmarkeloff•3d ago•13 comments

Watching a Z80 from an RP2350

https://emalliab.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/watching-a-z80-from-an-rp2350/
34•ibobev•2d ago•6 comments

Retro-Tech Parenting

https://havenweb.org/2026/05/28/retro-tech.html
322•mawise•22h ago•218 comments

SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/s-p-dow-jones-keeps-megacap-ipo-rules-as-is-af...
801•tristanj•15h ago•397 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.