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Naphtha Shortages Having a Growing Impact in Japan

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02783/
70•takakaze•3h ago•33 comments

The dead economy theory

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory
846•WillDaSilva•13h ago•1025 comments

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

https://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/
446•tomasol•11h ago•226 comments

Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM

https://www.perryts.com/
30•0x1997•2h ago•12 comments

Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled

https://blog.chrislewis.au/snowboard-kids-2-is-100-decompiled/
130•GaggiX•3d ago•38 comments

Math-to-Manim

https://github.com/HarleyCoops/Math-To-Manim
23•georgewsinger•2d ago•3 comments

Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit

https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summit
329•vnglst•13h ago•122 comments

MCP is dead?

https://www.quandri.io/engineering-blog/mcp-is-dead
145•nadis•6h ago•128 comments

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114•rented_mule•3d ago•21 comments

Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots

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107•evilsimon•10h ago•159 comments

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12

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256•watermelon0•14h ago•428 comments

WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

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111•jordanpg•3h ago•78 comments

What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/floppy-disk-data-preservation-archives
12•pseudolus•2d ago•4 comments

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https://github.com/jmaczan/tiny-vllm
116•yu3zhou4•9h ago•10 comments

Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM

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534•brandonb•1d ago•733 comments

Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T

https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-8b-a1b
170•simjnd•13h ago•62 comments

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https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover
227•tambourine_man•5h ago•94 comments

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/
214•justinweiss•14h ago•74 comments

Ember.js 7.0

https://blog.emberjs.com/ember-released-7-0/
41•satvikpendem•5h ago•7 comments

On Rendering Diffs

https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs
159•amadeus•10h ago•49 comments

You can just say it

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278•antirez•13h ago•133 comments

Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?

https://mastrojs.github.io/blog/2026-05-23-is-AI-causing-a-repeat-of-frontends-lost-decade/
312•xyzal•18h ago•268 comments

The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin

https://minimaxir.com/2026/05/openrouter-hy3/
116•freediver•1d ago•97 comments

Show HN: VT Code – open-source terminal coding agent in Rust

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8•vinhnx•2h ago•4 comments

GTA 6 Developers Unionize

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620•AndrewKemendo•13h ago•420 comments

We should be more tired than the model

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/05/28/we-should-be-more-tired-than-the-model/
165•tosh•17h ago•132 comments

Free full BGP feed. IPv4 and IPv6 (2020)

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33•pm2222•7h ago•17 comments

Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV

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128•dtagames•12h ago•38 comments

The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'

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222•TechTechTech•9h ago•222 comments

High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building

https://commonedge.org/high-density-living-2000-years-ago-inside-the-roman-apartment-building/
157•surprisetalk•16h ago•69 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.