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7.1 Earthquake in Japan

https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20260728163528&lang=en
239•krembo•3h ago•58 comments

About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

https://support.apple.com/en-us/128067
33•andor•1h ago•15 comments

What Even Are Microservices?

https://var0.xyz/posts/what-even-are-microservices.html
19•tuxie_•55m ago•25 comments

Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
939•surprisetalk•12h ago•1354 comments

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

https://fermisense.com/when-machines-take-the-wheel/
204•ilreb•8h ago•55 comments

Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts

https://arsastronomica.com/
66•sweisman•5h ago•9 comments

How to Survive Boiling Water

https://taxa.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-boiling-water
29•cainxinth•3d ago•2 comments

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarki...
302•dhorthy•12h ago•70 comments

Google's Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3819083
3•jordigg•48m ago•0 comments

Vehicle Motion Cues

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iphone-comfortably-riding-a-vehicle-iph55564cb22/ios
126•Austin_Conlon•9h ago•55 comments

Neutrino-1 8B

https://www.fermionresearch.com/models/neutrino-8b/
87•handfuloflight•5h ago•28 comments

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/07/19/observing-gos-garbage-collector-old-and-new.html
233•matheusmoreira•3d ago•28 comments

PyTorch: A Reference Language

https://docs.pytorch.org/devlogs/compiler/2026-07-25-pytorch-a-reference-language/
34•matt_d•6h ago•3 comments

RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

https://gpusolutions.net/rbservices/graphics-card-upgrade/
114•wslh•3d ago•73 comments

Programming Languages Are Authoring Tools for Platforms

https://www.makonea.com/en-US/blog/programming-languages-are-authoring-tools-for-platforms
22•jdw64•3d ago•4 comments

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

https://matthewsaltz.com/blog/using-an-open-model-feels-surprisingly-good/
286•msaltz•8h ago•108 comments

Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

https://telnyx.com/release-notes/kimi-k3-telnyx-inference
91•fionaattelnyx•12h ago•42 comments

DConf 2026 in London

https://dconf.org/2026/index.html
94•teleforce•11h ago•41 comments

TWC Classics

https://twcclassics.com/
12•stefanpie•5d ago•1 comments

Golang Maps: how Swiss Tables replaced the old bucket design

https://blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2026-07-24-Golang-Maps-How-Swiss-Tables-Replaced-the-Old-Bucket-...
3•Terretta•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap
72•pancomplex•16h ago•26 comments

Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals

https://www.rise-reforming.com
73•george_rose25•14h ago•31 comments

C/C++ projects packaged for Zig

https://github.com/allyourcodebase
63•jcbhmr•11h ago•35 comments

Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages

https://gpuopen.com/learn/ray-tracing-massive-amounts-animated-geometry/
109•LorenDB•4d ago•13 comments

Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions

https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/
148•jcbhmr•16h ago•32 comments

Paged Out #9 [pdf]

https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_009.pdf
248•laurensr•20h ago•26 comments

Some combinatorial applications of spacefilling curves

https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/research/mow/mow.html
55•shraiwi•2d ago•7 comments

EYG: A Programming Language for Humans

https://crowdhailer.me/2026-06-08/a-programming-language-for-humans/
70•crowdhailer•8h ago•40 comments

Securing Services with Rootless Containers

https://blog.coderspirit.xyz/blog/2026/07/06/securing-services-with-rootless-containers/
101•speckx•4d ago•29 comments

How real are real numbers? (2004)

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418
81•surprisetalk•19h ago•60 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.