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.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

https://hccf.onmy.cloud/2026/06/21/reclaiming-our-digital-selves-hccfs-vision-for-a-human-centere...
205•HumanCCF•3h ago•133 comments

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/
512•stared•5h ago•450 comments

Free the Icons

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/free-the-icons/
77•zdw•2d ago•13 comments

Is It Out Yet?

https://outyet.ai
28•partsch•1h ago•12 comments

Rocketlab acquires Iridium

https://investors.rocketlabcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rocket-lab-acquire-iridium...
332•everfrustrated•8h ago•203 comments

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1
125•danboarder•5h ago•27 comments

Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-scientists-molecular-evidence-liquid.html
11•wglb•45m ago•1 comments

A native graphical shell for SSH

https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/06/28/native-graphical-shell-for-SSH.html
211•mrcslws•7h ago•97 comments

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

https://humphri.es/blog/WATaBoy/
163•energeticbark•8h ago•25 comments

Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/hiking-with-wallace/
90•chantepierre•3d ago•13 comments

JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management

https://github.com/jumpserver/jumpserver
44•neitsab•3h ago•12 comments

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decision
374•cdrnsf•7h ago•175 comments

Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22283
78•Jimmc414•1d ago•10 comments

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-run-a-gpu-kernel/
190•mezark•9h ago•24 comments

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-06-29-micro-agent-frontier-models
40•matt_d•5h ago•11 comments

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-to-spend-1t-on-more-memory-chip-production-and-hum...
18•jnord•42m ago•0 comments

Working With AI: A concrete example

https://htmx.org/essays/working-with-ai/
61•comma_at•8h ago•24 comments

Kb – Prolog Knowledge Base

https://github.com/mat-mgm/kb-prolog
4•triska•2d ago•0 comments

30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/
164•xrd•1d ago•67 comments

Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding

https://deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.html
47•kordlessagain•1d ago•6 comments

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage

https://torrentfreak.com/european-isps-want-rightsholders-held-accountable-for-overblocking-damage/
319•Brajeshwar•6h ago•83 comments

Dark Sky Lighting

https://www.savingourstars.org/darkskylighting#whatisdarkskylighting
118•alexandrehtrb•4d ago•16 comments

One million passports leaked online

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/data-breaches-scandals/passports-driver-licenses-exposed-public-in...
82•jruohonen•1d ago•54 comments

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

https://www.cpushack.com/2026/06/03/sandia-national-labs-sa3000-8085-cpu/
151•rbanffy•12h ago•38 comments

Font-Family Recommendations

https://chrismorgan.info/font-family
44•birdculture•3d ago•12 comments

You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3819084
84•eatonphil•8h ago•37 comments

Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science/
59•markgavalda•17h ago•57 comments

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/venice-bridge-fights/
50•pepys•3d ago•28 comments

Rebuilding the Computer Room

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/computer-room/
87•ingve•11h ago•45 comments

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing

https://en.sedaily.com/international/2026/06/29/samsung-sk-hynix-micron-sued-in-us-over-memory-pr...
326•donohoe•11h ago•156 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.