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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/
138•vimarsh6739•1h ago•51 comments

Codex Micro

https://openai.com/supply/co-lab/work-louder/
192•davidbarker•3h ago•159 comments

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-...
148•neomindryan•4h ago•79 comments

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sour...
137•rvz•16h ago•73 comments

Collection of Digital Clock Designs

https://clocks.dev
70•levmiseri•3h ago•19 comments

Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)

https://dev.moe/en/3025
191•theanonymousone•6h ago•75 comments

Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)

https://github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side/misa77
84•nonadhocproblem•3h ago•33 comments

Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important

https://ramones.dev/posts/mental-health/
219•ramon156•8h ago•145 comments

Why I Left Google DeepMind

https://turntrout.com/why-i-left-google-deepmind
137•apsec112•59m ago•63 comments

Launch HN: Coasty (YC S26) – An API for computer-use agents

https://coasty.ai/docs
23•nkov47•3h ago•2 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Software Engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/artie
1•tang8330•2h ago

Towards a harness that can do anything

https://eardatasci.github.io/c/ambiance/index.html
112•evakhoury•5h ago•62 comments

Open-source memory for coding agents, synced over SSH

https://github.com/vshulcz/deja-vu/
71•vshulcz•3h ago•16 comments

My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/my-midlife-crisis-corolla-fast-furious-fully-modded/
103•gmays•5h ago•217 comments

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/47/1/zsad253/7280269
576•bilsbie•7h ago•286 comments

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/misfits-attic-announces-duskers-20
3•spacemarine1•12m ago•0 comments

What designing computer science cards taught me about graphic design

https://fhoehl.com/designing-algodeck
26•marukodo•3h ago•10 comments

The Memory Heist

https://www.ayush.digital/blog/the-memory-heist
57•eieio•23h ago•7 comments

Briar is in maintenance mode

https://briarproject.org/news/2026-maintenance-mode/
112•ristello•7h ago•78 comments

Show HN: Capn-hook for coding agents – don't grep the same mystery twice

https://github.com/cyrusNuevoDia/capn-hook
9•knrz•2d ago•1 comments

Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

https://danq.me/2026/07/10/rescuing-7234-gifs/
43•birdculture•3d ago•3 comments

OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court

https://dpa-international.com/economics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260715-930-389143/
168•hermanzegerman•5h ago•115 comments

Editing React components that never rendered

https://blog.crossui.com/2026/07/editing-react-components-that-never-rendered
9•linb•2d ago•1 comments

Unsolved Problems in MLOps

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3762989
25•gnyeki•3h ago•3 comments

The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence

https://smarterarticles.co.uk/the-three-second-theft-why-ai-voice-fraud-outruns-every-defence
137•dxs•6h ago•177 comments

A General Goal-Conditioned Minecraft Model

https://pantograph.com/journal/pan-1
25•agajews•3h ago•9 comments

The Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data into a Video Game

https://blog.exe.dev/meet-the-conservationist-who-turned-40-terabytes-of-government-data-into-a-v...
75•bryanmikaelian•1d ago•14 comments

Telegram Serverless

https://core.telegram.org/bots/serverless
140•soheilpro•9h ago•83 comments

The well-calibrated Bayesian [pdf] (1982)

https://fitelson.org/seminar/dawid.pdf
41•Murfalo•5h ago•15 comments

When A.I. is a member of the family

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/20/when-ai-is-a-member-of-the-family
42•fortran77•4h ago•57 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.