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I Don't Understand Quantum Physics

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
42•rramadass•46m ago•16 comments

OBS Studio 33

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/33.0.0
166•pentagrama•5h ago•51 comments

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro
925•Jowsey•17h ago•542 comments

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/
59•mooreds•2d ago•21 comments

ThinkRail from JetBrains

https://thinkrail.ai/
31•wilsonjholmes•2h ago•28 comments

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone
893•pavel_lishin•18h ago•588 comments

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/
211•otoolep•9h ago•28 comments

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c
128•stmonty•6h ago•16 comments

Apple Music 404 Not Found

https://music.apple.com/this-url-doesnt-exist
774•frizlab•22h ago•234 comments

Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117492375462459244
109•privacyishuman•9h ago•15 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1388•sohkamyung•1d ago•236 comments

A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents

https://danielball.com/notes/ai_image_generation.html
99•westsmith•3d ago•29 comments

Bringing uv and ty together

https://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integration
160•Ravencentric•3d ago•37 comments

How to run a city builder on 16 MHz

https://larstofus.com/2025/11/16/how-to-run-a-city-builder-on-12-5-mhz/
17•rex64•1d ago•4 comments

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

https://block.xyz/dessa
391•dsr12•15h ago•141 comments

Apple Security Research Device

https://security.apple.com/research-device/
71•neom•8h ago•24 comments

Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1xdv3e5/hacker_reverse_engineers_his_samsung_tv_and_finds/
158•testing22321•4h ago•36 comments

CVE Tracker

https://cve.0xosprey.com/
172•Group_B•13h ago•62 comments

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/canadians-are-running-out-time-oppose-dangerous-c-22-survei...
418•hn_acker•1d ago•223 comments

U-2 spy plane makes rare appearance in Bay Area flyover

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/government-spy-plane-49ers-22485781.php
6•bookofjoe•3d ago•1 comments

The Real Kevin Bacon

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
312•xnx•3d ago•78 comments

The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2eVAaw1UM
27•zdw•3d ago•21 comments

How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money

https://ayoships.com/breakdowns/block-blast
55•motionlessveloc•7h ago•20 comments

C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur

https://martinfinkel.com/blog/gaussian-blur-c-vs-csharp/
82•martz•3d ago•22 comments

The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses

https://funcarena.com/articles/the-quake-fan-who-built-the-map-editor-everybody-uses
120•klaussilveira•1d ago•11 comments

Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines

https://www.jefftk.com/p/air-purifiers-as-white-noise-machines
133•luu•17h ago•120 comments

One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFwHGGfPz4
35•Teever•12h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer

https://corgi.computer/
87•eiopa•14h ago•23 comments

Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/rise-of-collagen-eating-microbes-may-help-explain-gaps-in-the...
51•gmays•3d ago•2 comments

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
9•theanonymousone•2h 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.