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Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU

https://github.com/synchopate/llama-modchip
185•joshcsimmons•6h ago•61 comments

The Reconstruction of Torn Documents

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/en/stasi-records-archive/the-reconstruction-of-torn-documents/
31•jacquesm•2d ago•4 comments

OpenAI raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation

https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/11/07/openai-just-raised-11-billion-at-a-1-25-trillion-valua...
118•armcat•2h ago•99 comments

Writing as a thinking tool

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/11/writing-as-thinking-tool.html
100•jruohonen•6h ago•22 comments

I'm not a fan of Deno's security model (2024)

https://goldstein.lol/posts/deno-security/
26•maxloh•2h ago•7 comments

Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone

https://z1x.us/blog/four-hundred-bucks-of-e-waste
84•z1xus•4d ago•30 comments

Goodbye Claude, hello Pi

https://caleb.software/posts/claude-to-pi.html
549•karagenit•14h ago•347 comments

Show HN: Vegetable Gardening for Engineers

https://jrcpl.us/contrib/2020/gardening-for-engineers/
19•jrcplus•4d ago•3 comments

JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers

https://linebender.org/blog/jit-bitmap-text/
63•dmit•6h ago•11 comments

What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab

https://blog.bosscher.ch/posts/openstick/
694•LaurensBER•23h ago•125 comments

Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files

https://apiiro.com/blog/coding-agents-leaking-secrets-github-dont-ask-again
501•shmulc•20h ago•362 comments

Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust

https://clj.rs/
119•simonpure•4d ago•47 comments

Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment

https://www.lorekit.io/blog/open-agent-memory-format
123•mthines•8h ago•90 comments

Person of Interest

https://krthr.co/person-of-interest/
230•krthr•5h ago•155 comments

Petered

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/petered
117•adrianhoward•6h ago•74 comments

How to prove equations using diagrams, part 1

https://www.epatters.org/post/e-graphs-1/
11•frostbyte7•4h ago•2 comments

Earliest evidence of cannabis use found in ancient Siberian tomb

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/05/science/ancient-cannabis-siberia-scli-intl
47•mooreds•2d ago•37 comments

Tesla Hasn't Had a Successful New Product Launch Since JB Straubel Stepped Down

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/11/07/tesla-hasnt-had-a-successful-new-product-launch-since-jb-str...
158•gumby•1h ago•128 comments

Top Astrophysicist Leaves U.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/science/space/holley-bockelmann-astrophysicist-space-trump.html
18•xqcgrek2•58m ago•3 comments

The Gordon Gekko effect: The role of culture in the financial industry (2016) [pdf]

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/2016/epr_2016_gordon-gekko-effect_lo.pdf
67•tylerdane•1d ago•46 comments

Drones built to look like birds evaded detection at Air Force tech exercise

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/drone-mimicking-bird-test/
26•bushwart•2h ago•13 comments

Finding Xanadu: Inside a JRPG classic translation 15 years in the making

https://readonlymemo.com/legend-of-xanadu-pc-engine-fan-translation-interview-making-of/
56•speckx•3d ago•12 comments

Tasfer: a text editor drawn on a 2D canvas

https://www.hamza.se/blog/tasfer
64•hamza512b•4d ago•46 comments

New typeface using intricate designs from Shakespeare's First Folio (2023)

https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/typeland-shakespeares-globe-amifer-folio-graphic-design-090323
38•bryanrasmussen•3d ago•11 comments

Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/uranium-cubes-reveal-why-the-german-nuclear-project-failed/
193•rbanffy•3d ago•123 comments

Quadrillion-parameter transformers and how to train them

https://qlabs.sh/research/parameters
53•frozenseven•5d ago•44 comments

Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier

https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph
802•infwhispers•1d ago•428 comments

Making any integer with four 2s (2025)

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/making-any-integer-with-four-2s/
182•germanrabbit•18h ago•47 comments

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/every-windows-11-app-should-kill-electron-and-discord-ju...
407•thunderbong•1d ago•408 comments

ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients

https://github.com/dmunozv04/isponsorblocktv
97•xnx•13h ago•42 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.