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StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421
341•Snowly•5h ago•70 comments

How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026

https://nnethercote.github.io/2026/09/30/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-september-2026.html
127•trickypr•3h ago•61 comments

OpenID Foundation: Identity Management for Agentic AI [pdf] (2025)

https://openid.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Identity-Management-for-Agentic-AI.pdf
23•cgeier•49m ago•5 comments

RacketCon Is Saturday

https://con.racket-lang.org/
20•spdegabrielle•1h ago•2 comments

Polyedergarten: Garden of Paper Polyhedron Models

https://www.polyedergarten.de/e_index.htm
11•isaacimagine•57m ago•0 comments

Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks

https://www.osnews.com/story/146052/google-breaks-promise-to-provide-10-years-of-updates-to-chrom...
272•speckx•3h ago•123 comments

GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design

https://news.synopsys.com/2026-09-30-OpenAI-and-Synopsys-Announce-GPT-Synopsys-Frontier-Intellige...
116•giuliomagnifico•5h ago•64 comments

Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-k2-streams/
22•elffjs•1h ago•2 comments

OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network

https://github.com/maanHimself/OpenDLSS-NR
199•sagacity•1d ago•96 comments

Gemini 4 Argon

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/
1561•bradleyg223•19h ago•1032 comments

Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/meta-ai-data-centers-taxes.html
180•gmays•2h ago•137 comments

Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi

https://twitter.com/GayaniFigma/status/2105295629941350454
39•thdr•50m ago•14 comments

FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/ftc-ai-probe-openai-anthropic.html
112•dgellow•2h ago•66 comments

Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones

https://www.404media.co/cops-can-bypass-iphone-automatic-inactivity-reboot-graykey/
57•speckx•1h ago•33 comments

Red Hat Being Phased Out of Existence (Like Many Other Companies IBM Bought)

https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/01/Red_Hat_Being_Phased_Out_of_Existence_Like_Many_Other_Compani...
18•amcclure•27m ago•9 comments

Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns

https://bookofshapes.com/
185•eustoria•2d ago•14 comments

Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring a GTM Founder's Associate

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truemetrics/jobs/THLEzXI-gtm-founder-s-associate
1•truemetricsIngo•6h ago

The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4951/1
276•Bluestein•17h ago•135 comments

Adding Floating-Point Decimals for Fun and Profit

https://blog.vero.site/post/float
43•ibobev•2d ago•20 comments

Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards

https://unsung.aresluna.org/before-pixels-modular-industrial-dashboards/
246•leephillips•21h ago•46 comments

Why the Bronze Age Collapsed

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-really-caused-the-bronze-age
340•AnodicElegy•2d ago•225 comments

Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf]

https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/LosAlamosBetsOnENIAC.pdf
42•nill0•1d ago•1 comments

Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026

https://www.techpowerup.com/353296/micron-ceo-says-memory-supply-will-be-much-tighter-in-2027-and...
161•speckx•3h ago•190 comments

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal
347•rbanffy•1d ago•146 comments

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings

https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/
230•ibobev•20h ago•91 comments

Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude
180•anerli•22h ago•88 comments

Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields

https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/halfspace/
171•luu•20h ago•10 comments

Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/immigration-advocate-sues-border-agents-for-demanding...
247•rbanffy•4h ago•235 comments

An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism

https://www.ft.com/content/bc178357-793b-45d8-ae3b-d5929159c243
59•Anon84•2h ago•33 comments

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

https://www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions-firecracker-microvms/
205•jbott•21h ago•89 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.