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Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

https://rustfoundation.org/media/guest-post-rust-is-tier-1-language-at-microsoft/
391•mmastrac•4h ago•205 comments

Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2
159•seelos•3h ago•83 comments

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240535270608201
251•pred_•11h ago•384 comments

I have a theory that software drives people insane

https://graybeard.ing/software-drives-people-insane/
116•rglover•2h ago•56 comments

NASA Color Trick Was Meant for Mars. Now It's Unveiling Rock Art on Earth

https://gizmodo.com/this-nasa-color-trick-was-meant-for-mars-now-its-unveiling-rock-art-on-earth-...
100•gumby•3h ago•16 comments

Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native
505•fnthawar2•4h ago•358 comments

Neki

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-neki
105•simon_weber•2h ago•34 comments

Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/16.0.4.md
48•weierstass•2h ago•25 comments

Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk
53•tosh•4d ago•22 comments

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html
15•aanet•1h ago•3 comments

Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/how-big-tech-and-silicon-valley-are-transforming-milita...
57•paimapi•2h ago•76 comments

Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/07/hitachi-launches-co2-heat-pump-water-heaters-with-solar-fr...
230•thelastgallon•1d ago•192 comments

Neki is sharded Postgres by PlanetScale

https://neki.dev/
77•handfuloflight•2h ago•19 comments

>10x More Efficient Pretraining

https://magic.dev/blog/pretraining#
80•ronfriedhaber•2d ago•45 comments

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2097930608790167907
815•Liwink•12h ago•457 comments

Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1

https://tokenstead.ai/models/swe-2
13•cdnsteve•1h ago•4 comments

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683
288•soheilpro•9h ago•140 comments

List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Sony_PlayStation_digital_game_ownership_lawsuit
264•haunter•6h ago•88 comments

Macbeth and His Problems

https://porticoquarterly.com/essay/macbeth-and-his-problems/
60•apophatic•2d ago•23 comments

Casablanca: How an unproduced play marched into movie history

https://www.thecollector.com/casablanca-unproduced-play-movie-history/
33•mdp2021•2h ago•10 comments

Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/03/python-sets-and-dictionaries-can-have-quadratic-time-performance/
51•ibobev•2d ago•22 comments

JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation

https://openjdk.org/jeps/544
10•Skinney•1h ago•8 comments

Stockfish 19

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2026/stockfish-19/
223•atiedebee•3d ago•130 comments

iPhone Duo

https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
1359•thecosmicfrog•1d ago•2365 comments

To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree

https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/
62•DanielVZ•2d ago•21 comments

Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF

https://ayles.github.io/doom-in-kernel/
12•ayles•1d ago•4 comments

Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/us/politics/anthropic-ai-biological-weapons.html
40•jbegley•1h ago•34 comments

Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model

https://usefeyn.com/blog/multimatte/
10•snyy•2h ago•4 comments

The Four-Color Theorem Gets a Rare New Proof

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-four-color-theorem-gets-a-rare-new-proof-20260910/
16•pavel_lishin•3h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Syq – copy files between machines fast (better than rsync)

https://greaber.github.io/syq/
21•greaber•3h ago•23 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.