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MAI-Code-1-Flash

https://microsoft.ai/news/introducingmai-code-1-flash/
324•EvanZhouDev•4h ago•151 comments

CT scans of BYD car parts

https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/byd
135•viasfo•2h ago•51 comments

California’s university system went all in on AI, now it's tearing itself apart

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/magazine/ai-university-college-california.html
25•jeffwass•15h ago•1 comments

Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

https://moddedbear.com/gmail-thinks-im-stupid-so-i-left
501•speckx•3h ago•292 comments

Open Repair Data Standard – Open Repair Alliance

https://openrepair.org/open-data/open-standard/
75•cassepipe•3h ago•2 comments

My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month

https://www.acdw.net/clojure/
70•speckx•3h ago•25 comments

HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C

https://hpcalcs.com/product/hp-16c-collectors-edition/
96•dm319•4h ago•61 comments

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)

https://coveillance.org/a-walking-tour-of-surveillance-infrastructure-in-seattle/
362•eustoria•9h ago•226 comments

Now AI agents need what RSS does

https://julienreszka.com/blog/rss-is-back-ai-agents-are-reading-it/
35•julienreszka•2h ago•9 comments

How we index images for RAG

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/how-we-index-images-for-rag
70•mooreds•7h ago•7 comments

Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai

https://blog.adafruit.com/
590•semanser•13h ago•245 comments

The advertising cartel coming to your web browser

https://blog.zgp.org/the-advertising-cartel-coming-to-your-web-browser/
105•speckx•3h ago•32 comments

Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/02/trump-signs-downsized-ai-order-00946389
150•_alternator_•6h ago•102 comments

MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant

https://blog.tomayac.com/2026/05/30/your-mp3s-from-google-drive-in-music-assistant-on-home-assist...
9•tomayac•3d ago•1 comments

Gleam v1.17.0 Released

https://gleam.run/news/single-file-gleam-beam-programs-with-escript/
45•figbert•59m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Live breath detection and biofeedback from a phone microphone

https://github.com/shiihaa-app/shiihaa-breath-detection
18•felixzeller•7h ago•9 comments

Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)

https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo
6•timhigins•41m ago•1 comments

Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=111336
43•beebix•2d ago•7 comments

Bringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300X

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x/
70•kkm•5h ago•6 comments

Why Janet? (2023)

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/why-janet/
419•yacin•13h ago•224 comments

Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux

https://github.com/c0dejedi/nbd-vram
5•tanelpoder•20m ago•0 comments

QBE – Compiler Backend – 1.3

https://c9x.me/compile/release/qbe-1.3.html
65•birdculture•5h ago•18 comments

4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/mohenjo-daro-grew-more-equal-over-time/
7•marojejian•53m ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Rudus (YC P26) – AI for concrete contractors

30•rishipankhaniya•4h ago•15 comments

Expanding Project Glasswing

https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-project-glasswing
147•surprisetalk•10h ago•192 comments

Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release

https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/
129•jandeboevrie•8h ago•159 comments

Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)

https://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt
139•BruceEel•9h ago•52 comments

Love systemd timers

https://blog.tjll.net/you-dont-love-systemd-timers-enough/
325•yacin•13h ago•215 comments

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Applied AI Interns

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/great-question/jobs/J5TNvQH-ai-engineer-intern
1•nedwin•11h ago

Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free...
441•StrLght•23h ago•344 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.