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Half-Life 2 in a Browser

https://hl2.slqnt.dev/
192•panza•3h ago•62 comments

Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition

https://utaw.tech/news/wikipedia-recognition
53•chobeat•2h ago•37 comments

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-ca...
398•htrp•13h ago•684 comments

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/
694•jamdesk•15h ago•385 comments

Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all

https://blog.cloudflare.com/oauth-for-all/
153•terryds•6h ago•64 comments

LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions

https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/1475
151•phreddypharkus•8h ago•87 comments

Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub

https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/CWR
54•dewey•2d ago•6 comments

Blogging can just be stating the obvious

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/
222•Curiositry•9h ago•73 comments

Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion

https://markdy.com
56•surprisetalk•1d ago•11 comments

Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies

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50•rndsignals•6h ago•24 comments

Dostoyevsky isn't difficult

https://www.autodidacts.io/dostoyevsky-isnt-difficult/
148•surprisetalk•2d ago•147 comments

45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/liquid-cooling-ai-factories/
326•nitin_flanker•18h ago•217 comments

Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/06/21/zombie-unicorns-are-haunting-silicon-valley
95•andsoitis•6h ago•46 comments

Aisle Discovers 6 New CVEs in Curl, Including the Oldest Issue Ever Reported

https://aisle.com/blog/aisle-discovers-6-new-cves-in-curl-including-the-oldest-issue-ever-reported
3•ragebol•58m ago•0 comments

GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/glm-52-is-the-step-change-for-open
228•vantareed•2d ago•128 comments

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

https://www.reuters.com/business/qualcomm-buy-ai-startup-modular-2026-06-24/
196•timmyd•19h ago•63 comments

The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models

https://jamesoclaire.com/2026/06/25/the-unbearable-cheapness-of-open-weight-models/
61•ddxv•6h ago•42 comments

RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers

https://rubyllm.com/
386•doener•18h ago•68 comments

Show HN: Nimic – Pure Python as a systems language with AOT compilation

https://github.com/dima-quant/nimic
10•dima-quant•1d ago•4 comments

Mixing Visual and Textual Code

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15855
49•doppioandante•7h ago•18 comments

PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s

https://www.greptile.com/blog/prs-on-openclaw
219•dakshgupta•18h ago•125 comments

Shall We Play a Coordination Game?

https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/shall-we-play-a-coordination-game/
4•rzk•2d ago•0 comments

Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-computer-use-...
215•swolpers•15h ago•136 comments

The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

https://blog.omgmog.net/post/xteink-x4-e-ink-reader/
242•felixdoerp•16h ago•139 comments

Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web

https://tedium.co/2026/06/22/matts-script-archive-retrospective/
46•1317•2d ago•12 comments

Show HN: Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored

https://github.com/wolfoo2931/linkedrecords/
44•WolfOliver•6d ago•22 comments

Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript?

https://brainfrog.lol
34•AlexanderZ•5d ago•28 comments

Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js

https://github.com/nubjs/nub
238•colinmcd•18h ago•66 comments

A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/ssh-tunnels
327•signa11•5d ago•61 comments

Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report
378•mattnewton•1d ago•41 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.