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10th Gen Honda Civic Updates Are Signed with AOSP Test Keys

https://juniperspring.org/posts/honda-evil-valet/
162•librick•4h ago•25 comments

Tribblix: the retro illumos distribution

http://tribblix.org/
7•naturalmovement•18m ago•0 comments

Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau

https://desfontain.es/blog/banning-noise.html
783•nl•15h ago•488 comments

Software Architecture Guide

https://martinfowler.com/architecture/
25•laxmena•1h ago•6 comments

GLM 5.2 Is Out

https://twitter.com/jietang/status/2065784751345287314
460•aloknnikhil•13h ago•251 comments

Pac-Man, but You're the Ghost

https://garrit.xyz/posts/2026-06-13-pac-man-but-you-re-the-ghost
12•mindracer•1h ago•10 comments

Every Frame Perfect

https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/
644•ravenical•18h ago•206 comments

Building a serial and VGA "everything console"

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/building-serial-and-vga-everything.html
16•classichasclass•3h ago•0 comments

FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language

https://github.com/kekcleader/FreeOberon
57•peter_d_sherman•2d ago•19 comments

Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/06/06/python-3-14-garbage-collection-rigamarole.html
29•eatonphil•1d ago•14 comments

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/12/treating-pancreatic-tumours-may-have-reve...
332•andsoitis•16h ago•120 comments

Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI

https://blog.pyodide.org/posts/314-release/
104•agriyakhetarpal•4d ago•26 comments

(Re//Verse 2026) Taxonomy and Deobfuscation of a Real World Binary Obfuscator [pdf]

https://github.com/AnalogCyberNuke/RE-Verse-2026-Slides/blob/main/Reverse26.pdf
9•not_a9•2d ago•1 comments

Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded

https://sqltoerdiagram.com/
10•robhati•1h ago•5 comments

Codex for open source

https://openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/
204•EvgeniyZh•2d ago•69 comments

The Redistribution of Housing Wealth Caused by Rent Control [pdf]

https://www.rhawa.org/file/secure/shs-the-impact-of-rent-control-in-st-paul.pdf
61•luu•2h ago•85 comments

The Field Guide to CSS Grid Lanes

https://gridlanes.webkit.org/
19•ingve•3d ago•2 comments

Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/weave/
14•rohanat•2h ago•4 comments

Apt Encounters of the Third Kind

https://igor-blue.github.io/2021/03/24/apt1.html
17•ogurechny•3h ago•4 comments

Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-ceos-talks-with-u-s-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic...
617•ls612•12h ago•451 comments

GameBoy Workboy

https://tcrf.net/Workboy
174•tosh•11h ago•61 comments

ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Running-Half-Life
154•jeditobe•6h ago•25 comments

Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch

https://chrisdevblog.com/2026/06/08/running-dos-on-behringers-ddx3216-using-a-diy-x86-bios/
86•rasz•11h ago•20 comments

Making Claude a Chemist

https://www.anthropic.com/research/making-claude-a-chemist
10•gmays•2h ago•0 comments

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/
265•vikas-sharma•20h ago•141 comments

Appreciating Exif

https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/appreciating-exif/
144•burnto•4d ago•30 comments

Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases

https://news.sky.com/story/derbyshire-police-officer-investigated-for-using-ai-to-create-evidence...
278•austinallegro•9h ago•133 comments

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

https://imil.net/blog/posts/2026/rtx-5080-+-rtx-3090-setup-80+-tok-s-on-qwen-3.6-27b-q8/
222•iMil•19h ago•74 comments

Human Routers of Machine Words

https://borretti.me/article/human-routers-of-machine-words
51•zx321•8h ago•25 comments

Ancient genome duplications laid the foundations of complex brains

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06-09-ancient-genome-duplications-laid-the-foundations-of-complex-...
28•hhs•6h ago•1 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.