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DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)

https://www.greybeam.ai/blog/duckdb-internals-part-1
101•marklit•2d ago•44 comments

To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system

https://news.mit.edu/2026/to-study-how-chips-really-work-mit-researchers-built-their-own-operatin...
148•speckx•3d ago•15 comments

So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI

https://mnot.net/blog/2026/well_known_uris
22•ingve•1h ago•0 comments

Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst

https://mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-06-15-gribouille-0-3/
51•mcanouil•3d ago•12 comments

Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

https://blog.jxmo.io/p/zen-and-the-art-of-machine-learning
27•jxmorris12•3d ago•3 comments

I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

https://orchidfiles.com/github-repositories-distributing-malware/
766•theorchid•19h ago•192 comments

Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment

https://www.whatwelo.st/p/generative-ai-is-having-its-herbalife
16•watermelon0•1h ago•6 comments

Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/enterprise-managed-auth/
180•niyikiza•9h ago•65 comments

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a
4•philonoist•56m ago•1 comments

DARPA Heavy Life Challenge

https://www.darpa.mil/research/challenges/lift
13•mhb•2h ago•9 comments

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/18/datasette-apps/
68•lumpa•6h ago•23 comments

Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)

https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.104885
117•js2•3h ago•70 comments

Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk

https://dfdxlabs.com/research/2026/robotics-setup/
66•mplappert•16h ago•24 comments

Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

https://blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nas
320•ksec•17h ago•275 comments

CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course (2020)

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2025fa/self-guided/
354•ibobev•20h ago•51 comments

Many Let's Encrypt renewals had errors today

https://letsencrypt.status.io/#2026
128•widdakay•3h ago•77 comments

Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems

https://americanexpress.io/cell-based-architecture-for-resilient-payment-systems/
117•birdculture•3d ago•46 comments

Show HN: Talos – Open-source WASM interpreter for Lean

https://github.com/cajal-technologies/talos
43•mfornet•18h ago•5 comments

Flexport (YC W14) Is Hiring in Indonesia, India, and Thailand

https://www.flexport.com/company/careers/
1•thedogeye•6h ago

The ISA Doesn't Matter Where It Counts

https://www.chipstrat.com/p/the-isa-doesnt-matter-where-it-counts
3•ksec•1h ago•2 comments

Akse3D – open-source 3D modelling anyone can master

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.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git

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384•FergusArgyll•21h ago•123 comments

How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart

https://arun.is/blog/jr-logo/
82•ddrmaxgt37•1d ago•65 comments

Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost

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302•giuliomagnifico•20h ago•132 comments

I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/elkjop-forced-consent-fine/
343•speckx•13h ago•182 comments

Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

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316•turtlesoup•10h ago•170 comments

If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)

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67•skogstokig•3d ago•39 comments

Horizons JPL Solar System Data Demo and NASA DSN Updates: Datastar, Common Lisp

https://horizons.lambda-combine.net/
47•adityaathalye•4d ago•1 comments

W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty

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201•nemoniac•18h ago•136 comments

Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

https://tester.army
116•okwasniewski•16h ago•49 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.