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Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
247•sfkgtbor•1h ago•105 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/
146•joshuawright11•1h ago•59 comments

Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompetitive' Fees

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307•DeepLogin•3h ago•168 comments

Docker Agent : AI Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent
31•saikatsg•1h ago•12 comments

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

https://bigwords.page/
148•SpeakingOfBrad•3h ago•46 comments

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

https://ascii.rest/
166•turrini•3h ago•43 comments

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome
391•AshleysBrain•7h ago•254 comments

GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/djlmxz2zd0j7
222•gagan2020•3h ago•171 comments

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/
335•sohkamyung•9h ago•56 comments

Redis in the Wild: Unexpectedly Bumping into Antirez in His Hometown

https://orazioscicolone.it/posts/2026-10-04-meetantirez/
17•skiwithuge•1d ago•3 comments

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2026/press-release/
255•sasvari•9h ago•45 comments

AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares

https://github.com/Queuingtheorydotcom/11SquaresFormalized
85•bluepeter•4h ago•36 comments

Wood Tape (2004)

http://gamesbyemail.com/WoodTape/Default.htm
93•NaOH•1d ago•10 comments

ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/shinyhunters-extorted-boeing-spin-off-prior-to-arrests/
43•speckx•3h ago•6 comments

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
1175•OfficialTurkey•20h ago•1317 comments

Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/anti-patterns-software-blogging/
142•ilreb•5h ago•67 comments

EmDash uses Clef to moderate the plugin registry

https://emdashcms.com/blog/how-emdash-uses-clef-to-moderate-the-plugin-registry
13•ascorbic•1h ago•3 comments

3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines

https://news.mit.edu/2026/3d-printing-platform-rapidly-produces-complex-electric-machines-0218
26•rbanffy•1d ago•17 comments

AI Model Groupthink

https://magicnumbers.io/2026/10/06/ai-model-groupthink/
9•io84•56m ago•1 comments

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24•thomask1995•1d ago•18 comments

God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser

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106•sn001•7h ago•49 comments

VECOS – A windows-like operating system for the Vectrex for the UVMC2 [video]

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24•CharlesW•20h ago•5 comments

Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware

https://github.com/AL-255/FM-1-RE
40•0bytes•3h ago•21 comments

Open source 160 sound visualization experiments

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35•kaganin•3h ago•8 comments

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120•jasontr•6h ago•50 comments

The Auditor's Opinion

https://www.cringely.com/2026/07/16/the-auditors-opinion/
19•colinprince•3d ago•14 comments

Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese

https://fiveminutesforward.com/post/2026-10-04-telegraph-test/
73•Theory42•7h ago•47 comments

Rust's derive often implies inline

https://yossarian.net/til/post/rust-s-derive-often-implies-inline/
102•woodruffw•3d ago•24 comments

Mallet Head Angle

http://www.timberframe-tools.com/tools/mallet-head-angle/
58•frogulis•1d ago•21 comments

All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/all-the-numbers-amazon-prime-day-2026-powered-by-aws/
27•acronpolis•5h ago•18 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.