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Claude Sonnet 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5
209•marinesebastian•35m ago•102 comments

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography
677•kirushik•2h ago•202 comments

Claude Science

https://claude.com/product/claude-science
114•lebovic•1h ago•51 comments

Nano Banana 2 Lite

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash-lite/
120•minimaxir•1h ago•36 comments

We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works

https://unix.foo/posts/last-people-who-know-how-it-works/
88•cylo•1h ago•46 comments

I built a mmWave material classification radar

https://gauthier-lechevalier.com/radar
32•GL26•1h ago•4 comments

Xsnow "protestware" in Debian

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1079385/3d7a57da58b41aa9/
69•6581•1h ago•44 comments

Looking Ahead to Postgres 19

https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgresql-19-features-beta/
164•thinkingemote•4h ago•101 comments

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518
124•lstodd•5h ago•38 comments

County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'

https://www.404media.co/henrico-virginia-datacenter-energy-cost-email/
194•01-_-•2h ago•102 comments

Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says

https://www.reuters.com/world/crypto-firms-have-spent-189-million-so-far-2026-us-election-report-...
96•tartoran•1h ago•41 comments

Knoppix

https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
132•hoangvmpc•5h ago•70 comments

Don't Make Gates Optional, Make Them Flexible

https://wakamoleguy.com/p/flexible-gates
11•wakamoleguy•3d ago•0 comments

Open Source Low Tech

https://opensourcelowtech.org/
553•grep_it•4d ago•113 comments

Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

https://karolina.mgdubiel.com/drone/
257•noleary•2d ago•56 comments

Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-444
77•ibobev•3d ago•41 comments

European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple

https://waag.org/en/article/european-digital-id-wallets-are-gift-google-and-apple/
628•donohoe•7h ago•273 comments

Zluda 6 release (run unmodified CUDA applications on non-Nvidia GPUs)

https://vosen.github.io/ZLUDA/blog/zluda-update-q1q2-2026/
110•Tiberium•8h ago•9 comments

We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky

https://waag.org/en/article/why-we-moved-our-bluesky-data-eurosky/
107•dotcoma•3h ago•90 comments

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/
1101•stared•1d ago•698 comments

LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active

https://longcat.chat/blog/longcat-2.0/
246•benjiro29•18h ago•72 comments

The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/06/the-post-covid-decline-in-the-labor-share/
383•loughnane•3h ago•376 comments

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning

https://old.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/mathematics-its-content-methods-and-meaning
44•teleforce•3d ago•11 comments

.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

https://hccf.onmy.cloud/2026/06/21/reclaiming-our-digital-selves-hccfs-vision-for-a-human-centere...
632•HumanCCF•22h ago•356 comments

Free the Icons

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/free-the-icons/
630•zdw•3d ago•230 comments

Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)

https://www.maturitas.org/article/S0378-5122(25)00571-7/fulltext
173•bookofjoe•8h ago•146 comments

Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to federal regulatory structure

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/29/nx-s1-5875161/supreme-court-takes-sledgehammer-to-much-of-federal-...
50•marojejian•1h ago•53 comments

I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHQ8c8i42VE
61•skibz•4d ago•11 comments

Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?

https://taonaw.com/2026/06/27/have-you-restarted-your-computer.html
41•surprisetalk•4h ago•111 comments

Memory Safe Context Switching

https://fil-c.org/context_switches
196•modeless•17h ago•29 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.