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Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

https://global.fujitsu/en-global/pr/news/2026/09/14-02
59•my123•1d ago•17 comments

Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwly7vkke4jxo
80•witweb•35m ago•29 comments

The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/the-american-religion-of-self-storage-facilities
21•pseudolus•53m ago•7 comments

Show HN: I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app

https://flat.social
37•pawelwentpawel•1h ago•23 comments

One Year of Sponsored Servo Development

https://servo.org/blog/2026/09/15/one-year-of-sponsorship/
222•AshleysBrain•5h ago•96 comments

I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9

https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/reddit-ner
17•p-s-v•48m ago•5 comments

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/
804•nonmaskable•1d ago•329 comments

CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

https://events.ccc.de/en/2026/09/12/40c3-model-citizens/
116•antonly•6h ago•26 comments

My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

https://jakeasmith.com/blog/http-build-url/
210•jakeasmith•1d ago•54 comments

Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

https://ryan.science/blog/keys-not-included
226•Ryan5453•11h ago•88 comments

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

https://rohanbansal.com/qorl
614•polyphilz•19h ago•125 comments

The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac

https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/speach.html
104•rramadass•3d ago•31 comments

Better Vector Search for Long Documents: Chunking Inside Manticore Search

https://manticoresearch.com/blog/auto-chunking/
40•GloriaVinogrado•3h ago•7 comments

GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure

https://z.ai/blog/glm-built-its-inference-infrastructure
179•whiteros_e•5h ago•136 comments

Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

238•jakemanger•3h ago•152 comments

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/
485•krackers•17h ago•139 comments

Small programming tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/
588•signa11•22h ago•257 comments

Lucasart's Afterlife

https://togameforlife.wordpress.com/2023/12/09/on-lucasarts-afterlife/
56•Bondi_Blue•1d ago•27 comments

Online Z3 Guide

https://microsoft.github.io/z3guide/
34•Bluestein•1d ago•9 comments

Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill

https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill
127•donk8r•9h ago•20 comments

Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms

https://egbert.net/blog/articles/comparison-of-arena-architecture-in-malloc.html
98•egberts1•1d ago•28 comments

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme
2213•arnemunthekaas•2d ago•246 comments

Backups Aren't Simple

https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html
282•afilipovski•17h ago•176 comments

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338
220•matt_d•17h ago•35 comments

Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus

https://www.amazon.science/blog/developing-provably-correct-rust-code-with-verus
135•Betelbuddy•2d ago•34 comments

HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?

https://harnesstax.github.io/
175•matt_d•15h ago•66 comments

AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/aws-says-it-cant-restore-some-data-from-mideast-facilities-...
474•berkeleyjunk•1d ago•402 comments

The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

https://johnjwang.com/post/2026/09/15/engineering-behind-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve
235•johnjwang•1d ago•97 comments

A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server

https://labs.watchtowr.com/a-32-year-old-bug-walks-into-a-telnet-server-gnu-inetutils-telnetd-cve...
82•paimapi•1d ago•36 comments

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

https://openspec.dev/
169•etoxin•14h ago•79 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.