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Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291
95•nh43215rgb•58m ago•45 comments

Transcribe.cpp

https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/transcribe-cpp
517•sebjones•9h ago•104 comments

Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb

https://github.com/moonshine-ai/moonshine/tree/main/micro
451•petewarden•4d ago•59 comments

Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated

https://training.perforce.com/learn/courses/535/p4-helix-core-user-basic
10•TZubiri•1h ago•22 comments

Codex Resets

https://codex-resets.com/
181•denysvitali•10h ago•131 comments

Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

https://github.com/stupside/castor
193•xonery•8h ago•49 comments

Searchable field-level encryption on Supabase with CipherStash

https://supabase.com/blog/searchable-field-level-encryption-with-cipherstash
36•dandraper•3d ago•18 comments

Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-still-dont-know-the-fastest-way-to-mult...
107•beardyw•5d ago•70 comments

The Kimi K3 Moment

https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/07/18/the-kimi-k3-moment/
399•sbochins•16h ago•426 comments

GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxj3cy/after_openais_cdc_proof_announcement_gpt56_used_a/
561•mbustamanter•20h ago•358 comments

Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/scrying-the-amd-gfx1250-llvm-tea
25•mfiguiere•4h ago•0 comments

Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb
160•cdrnsf•11h ago•109 comments

If You Build It, They Will Come

https://www.benlandautaylor.com/p/if-you-build-it-they-will-come
404•barry-cotter•18h ago•140 comments

Making Software: How to make a font

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-to-make-a-font
42•Garbage•5d ago•8 comments

Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics

https://hjerpbakk.com/blog/2026/07/14/umami-for-apps
16•Sankra•4d ago•2 comments

Classic Amiga titles, free to download

https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/
116•doener•11h ago•16 comments

Restoring and Demoing 1960s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum [pdf]

https://ibm-1401.info/pictures/Proc-MIW-2017-Garner-1401PDP1.pdf
8•rbanffy•1w ago•1 comments

A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software

https://www.marciot.com/mac68k-visual-catalog/
40•zdw•1w ago•5 comments

Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

https://ykdojo.github.io/claude-controls-mac/
232•ykev•17h ago•158 comments

I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp

https://mssv.net/2026/04/29/im-making-strandfall-a-solarpunk-orienteering-larp/
155•surprisetalk•5d ago•20 comments

Boys' ADHD symptoms linked to addictive social media use in new study

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/boys-adhd-symptoms-linked-to-addictive-social-media-use-in...
7•jnord•55m ago•0 comments

Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3818307
214•Ygg2•16h ago•210 comments

How the Elite See Rome

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/rome-elite-tourism-imago-artis/687621/
9•bookofjoe•5d ago•3 comments

NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings

https://petapixel.com/2026/07/16/mayor-mamdani-says-landlords-cant-secretly-use-ai-images-to-adve...
468•gnabgib•11h ago•206 comments

Elixir-lang.org has a new design

https://elixir-lang.org/
229•bbg2401•18h ago•129 comments

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/#fnref:3
205•subset•8h ago•79 comments

Gleam Is Now on Tangled

https://tangled.org/gleam.run/gleam
234•nerdypepper•17h ago•146 comments

I built a browser-based P2P file transfer tool using WebRTC

https://airdows.com/
23•SamOkampo•7h ago•14 comments

Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?

https://charlesazam.com/blog/fable-5-gpt-5-6-sol-goal/
240•couAUIA•22h ago•116 comments

Deepsec

https://github.com/vercel-labs/deepsec
31•handfuloflight•8h ago•4 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.