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DeepSeek open-sources inference optimizations with 60–85% faster generation [pdf]

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSpec/blob/main/DSpark_paper.pdf
155•aurenvale•1h ago•15 comments

Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide

https://www.fosslinux.com/158206/linux-on-older-hardware-revival-guide.htm
54•tapanjk•2d ago•16 comments

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/
1012•minimaxir•17h ago•639 comments

Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/06/25/the-bbc-switches-off-its-oldest-service
36•edward•1d ago•51 comments

WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)

https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
94•droidjj•6h ago•43 comments

Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/535/why-does-kinetic-energy-increase-quadratically-no...
241•ProxyTracer•11h ago•120 comments

Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512

https://medium.com/@s_nikolaev/faster-knn-search-in-manticore-2-pass-hnsw-batched-distances-and-a...
11•snikolaev•1d ago•1 comments

IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering

https://github.com/schlae/IBM_MCGA
34•userbinator•5h ago•5 comments

OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1

https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/06/25/openttd-16-0-beta1
164•untilted•5h ago•27 comments

U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations

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445•bobrenjc93•11h ago•520 comments

AI in mathematics is forcing big questions

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics
129•rbanffy•11h ago•96 comments

Fusion Programming Language

https://fusion-lang.org/
77•efrecon•2d ago•37 comments

Jest/Vitest interactive course (runs in the browser)

https://howtotestfrontend.com/courses/jest-vitest-fundamentals
7•howToTestFE•2d ago•1 comments

MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control

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332•justincormack•4d ago•187 comments

Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression

https://kirill.korins.ky/articles/hellishly-slow-level-13-deflate-compression/
61•zX41ZdbW•4d ago•19 comments

U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

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1039•alain94040•16h ago•1094 comments

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75•PaybackTony•9h ago•17 comments

Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack

https://grack.com/blog/2026/06/25/dissecting-a-failed-nation-state-attack/
60•signa11•7h ago•9 comments

Foreign funds help make housing unaffordable: research

https://news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/foreign-funds-help-make-housing-unaffordable/
80•hhs•10h ago•25 comments

Om

https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om
377•throw0101a•10h ago•17 comments

Ultrasound imaging of the brain

https://alephneuro.com/blog/ultrasound-brain
284•rossant•22h ago•114 comments

SCC Technical Assistance Program

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20•luu•3d ago•1 comments

We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme
404•hn_acker•13h ago•135 comments

The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

https://blog.doubleword.ai/frontier-os-llm
212•kkm•13h ago•173 comments

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65•KraftyOne•2d ago•9 comments

A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing

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93•gjvc•13h ago•16 comments

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170•adchurch•17h ago•98 comments

What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?

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121•Eridanus2•17h ago•20 comments

Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It

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95•jfoucher•16h ago•19 comments

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

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1•joshwget•13h ago
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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.