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Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2026/06/20/twenty-years-of-risc-os-open
30•AlexeyBrin•55m ago•1 comments

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

https://meshdiff.com/
66•projscope•1h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

https://getbor.dev/blog/2026-08-02-bor-v080-release/
70•eniac111•4h ago•13 comments

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-notoria/
50•jruohonen•3h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores

https://github.com/syncular/syncular
37•quambo•3h ago•17 comments

Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

https://fuselang.org
20•the_unproven•2h ago•2 comments

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html
265•Hixon10•11h ago•108 comments

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

https://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox
200•tomilan•11h ago•69 comments

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/great-question/jobs/YutDxyf-senior-demand-generation-manager
1•nedwin•1h ago

Seedance 2.5

https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5
387•njaremko•16h ago•202 comments

Cyberscript

https://cyberscript.dev
29•dtj1123•5h ago•27 comments

Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-08-02/News_and_notes
148•akolbe•2h ago•112 comments

Diátaxis

https://diataxis.fr/
400•ryanseys•16h ago•49 comments

Has the New Cocaine Arrived?

https://playboy.substack.com/p/has-the-new-cocaine-finally-arrived
14•bookofjoe•26m ago•6 comments

MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/08/mklinux-and-pimped-out-apple-workgroup.html
70•goldenskye•10h ago•4 comments

An internal OpenAI Astra model solved 10 major open math and CS problems

https://twitter.com/polynoamial/status/2083467194663571701
35•wa5ina•1h ago•23 comments

Holocloth

https://holocloth.vercel.app
38•ingve•2d ago•8 comments

Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300

https://www.wafer.ai/blog/kimi-k3-mi355x
157•ilreb•9h ago•74 comments

Show HN: Katharos Functional programming and CSP-style concurrency for Python

https://github.com/kamalfarahani/katharos
6•kamalf•2h ago•1 comments

IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System

https://osadmins.com/en/ibm-i-os-400-the-database-operating-system/
31•naves•6h ago•16 comments

Deep-sea vehicles spot 'alien' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific

https://www.science.org/content/article/deep-sea-vehicles-spot-alien-sharks-deep-beneath-waves-pa...
69•pkaeding•10h ago•34 comments

Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter

https://chrismorgan.info/atom%3Erss
104•frizlab•15h ago•58 comments

A big win for Android interoperability

https://www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/a-big-win-for-android-interoperability/
160•soheilpro•1d ago•118 comments

When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work

https://insider.btcpp.dev/p/when-randombytes-runs-but-doesnt
66•Funes-•11h ago•33 comments

ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine

https://plug-world.com/posts/2026/asrock-bc250-the-budget-steam-machine/
77•plug_world•11h ago•36 comments

Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components

https://elenajs.com/
43•brianzelip•2d ago•3 comments

US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market

https://www.ft.com/content/0f9b2fe7-bde4-4f5f-b49e-93ccb5da9ea8
33•23pointsNorth•2h ago•24 comments

Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation

https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2026-07-28
87•hhs•14h ago•33 comments

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/
156•juhopitk•18h ago•59 comments

RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc10015.html
66•Jimmc414•13h ago•17 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.