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Zed DeltaDB

https://zed.dev/deltadb
121•ahamez•1h ago•50 comments

Discovery Loop

https://www.discoveryloop.com/
389•xtreak29•4h ago•241 comments

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency
94•moonikakiss•2h ago•17 comments

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/
247•colesantiago•4h ago•412 comments

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2
58•paulkrush•1h ago•31 comments

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data
79•hackerBanana•3h ago•27 comments

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2026-q2.html
60•plaguna•3d ago•31 comments

Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog

https://sagredo.dev/projects/sula/
16•triska•1h ago•1 comments

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

https://github.com/denoland/celld
64•calvinfo•3h ago•3 comments

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395
35•robin_reala•2h ago•15 comments

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/
47•malshe•39m ago•17 comments

The Valley of Webhooks

https://weli.dev/blog/the-valley-of-webhooks/
85•weli•5h ago•36 comments

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod

https://www.hyperprobe.co
29•shailendraht•3h ago•20 comments

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/the-entropy-of-a-markov-chain
80•surprisetalk•6h ago•5 comments

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/
378•speckx•6h ago•206 comments

What happens if you put work into the second dimension?

https://norbertkozsir.com/posts/work-in-the-second-dimension/
13•abelsm•1h ago•4 comments

Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure

https://securelist.com/cloud-platforms-in-phishing/120832/
29•lschueller•3h ago•6 comments

Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeg8299
79•_____k•6d ago•27 comments

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html
76•lladnar•1h ago•83 comments

Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/goodharts-law-comes-for-every-benchmark-you-trust/
15•pseudolus•5d ago•6 comments

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

https://www.campion.edu.au/blog/top-25-aristotle-quotes-on-virtue-knowledge-and-happiness/
129•teleforce•6h ago•56 comments

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

https://data4sci.com/blog/building-an-advanced-agentic-harness
80•Anon84•6h ago•38 comments

Western Sahara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sahara
88•brudgers•21h ago•55 comments

Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field

https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-new-window-cosmos-field
63•MarcoDewey•6h ago•9 comments

Painting with Gaussians

https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-08-03-splat-painter.html
76•yogthos•6h ago•13 comments

The Job Board Is Lying to You

https://nanomicon.com/blog/260730-the-job-board-is-lying-to-you
4•theHocineSaad•53m ago•1 comments

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt
215•theanonymousone•9h ago•144 comments

Faster Than Ninja

https://build2.org/blog/faster-than-ninja.xhtml
74•elasticdog•6h ago•26 comments

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/
418•dzdt•9h ago•210 comments

Stop sending me your errors

https://kramkow.ski/article/2026/08/05/stop_sending_me_your_errors.html
21•speckx•3h ago•2 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.