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Astra for Law

https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law/
362•vertigoruntime•6h ago•390 comments

Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint

https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-2-27b
269•JonSchneider•5h ago•85 comments

Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU

https://bend-lang.com/
334•nicolas-siplis•6h ago•170 comments

Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep

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498•bookofjoe•10h ago•139 comments

Wax motor

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273•mhb•1d ago•54 comments

Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-omni-flash
57•jjcm•4h ago•13 comments

Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

https://global.fujitsu/en-global/pr/news/2026/09/14-02
528•my123•2d ago•201 comments

Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python

https://flet.dev/
71•absqueued•6h ago•36 comments

Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006

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17•TMWNN•2h ago•4 comments

Better Icon and Label Alignment

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7•eustoria•1d ago•2 comments

Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain

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35•embedding-shape•2d ago•26 comments

I Put Nam A2-Lite Inside an iRig HD X

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18•arbayi•1d ago•2 comments

The most important product decision is what you don't build

https://liamnugent.me/posts/what-you-dont-build/
58•ChrisArchitect•6h ago•19 comments

CrowdSec Source Code Leak

https://www.crowdsec.net/blog/crowdsec-statement-source-code-exposure
137•eccgecko•11h ago•42 comments

How Uber Protects Against Retry Storms

https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/protecting-against-retry-storms/
53•iscmt•5h ago•25 comments

Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the-fields-medallists-letter/
221•simianwords•18h ago•317 comments

How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy?

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90•jjgreen•2d ago•62 comments

Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18842
120•Betelbuddy•10h ago•35 comments

Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/rate-limit-change-2026/
160•darkwater•11h ago•107 comments

CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

https://events.ccc.de/en/2026/09/12/40c3-model-citizens/
343•antonly•19h ago•181 comments

More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmzezj5e18xxo
150•karakoram•6h ago•144 comments

The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/the-american-religion-of-self-storage-facilities
202•pseudolus•13h ago•350 comments

Goose:experimental lang 1.16x faster than C++ and 1.12x than safe Rust, mem safe

https://github.com/aardappel/goose/tree/master
44•bobbydigitales•2h ago•43 comments

Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring ASIC/FPGA Engineers to Build Chips for ASI

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1•el_al•10h ago

TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node

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99•osnium123•2d ago•37 comments

Landing the Space Shuttle – A Flying Machine and the Thrill of a Lifetime

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29•JojoFatsani•2d ago•6 comments

Ask A Monk – A digital wilderness for thoughts with no immediate answer

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198•steveybrown•14h ago•108 comments

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52•cat-whisperer•10h ago•51 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.