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Claude Opus 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5
1414•alvis•12h ago•777 comments

GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime

https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-gc
24•phickey•4d ago•0 comments

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability
255•KraftyOne•10h ago•48 comments

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models
215•aarondong•9h ago•129 comments

Re: Bye Bye Gravatar

https://unattributed.cc/re-bye-bye-gravatar
26•surprisetalk•2d ago•10 comments

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dr...
554•sohkamyung•5d ago•157 comments

Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

https://www.wsj.com/health/taylor-farms-cyclospora-recall-delay-call-41fef0bc
137•JumpCrisscross•2h ago•43 comments

Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/sperm-whales-blow-bubbles-to-achieve-restful-vertical-sleep/
69•hhs•6h ago•6 comments

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/
546•hhh•17h ago•185 comments

If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

https://ptrchm.com/posts/nothing-works-and-everyone-is-euphoric/
660•pchm•20h ago•505 comments

Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data

https://globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io/
140•eliotho•1d ago•74 comments

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize
28•agnishom•3h ago•7 comments

Designing an Ethernet Switch ASIC

https://essenceia.github.io/projects/ethernet_switch_asic/
152•random__duck•4d ago•39 comments

An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener

https://news.mit.edu/2026/three-sided-y-zipper-design-0504
162•crescit_eundo•2d ago•35 comments

A concrete explanation of how a cache works

https://parksb.github.io/en/article/29.html
18•parksb•3d ago•2 comments

Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server

https://twitter.com/fried_rice/status/2080059356322918777
180•Alifatisk•1d ago•49 comments

Firefox Containers Preview

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-containers-preview/
274•twapi•3d ago•92 comments

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/nvidia-microsoft-meta-open-weight-ai-models.html
568•louiereederson•16h ago•254 comments

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18
288•m0do1•16h ago•54 comments

Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4
152•signa11•12h ago•132 comments

Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-2Y1LPRek
122•Bootvis•1d ago•111 comments

IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/
275•thisislife2•19h ago•343 comments

Future euro banknote design proposals

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/all-design-proposals.en.html
156•robin_reala•20h ago•131 comments

Marimo now runs in PyCharm

https://marimo.io/blog/pycharm
90•cantdutchthis•2d ago•22 comments

The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)

https://www.andrewzigler.com/feed/the-case-for-muds-in-modern-times
91•bw86•17h ago•73 comments

Unitree As2-W

https://www.unitree.com/As2-W/
113•MehrdadKhnzd•13h ago•48 comments

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-orders-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-ap...
428•rootkea•14h ago•314 comments

Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

https://ziggit.dev/t/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental-b...
247•kristoff_it•20h ago•168 comments

The footprints of every building in NYC

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/the-footprints-of-every-building-in-nyc/
61•jonathanmkeegan•4d ago•6 comments

Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker
469•rwmj•13h ago•273 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.