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Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html
159•Hixon10•5h ago•37 comments

Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300

https://www.wafer.ai/blog/kimi-k3-mi355x
100•ilreb•2h ago•10 comments

Seedance 2.5

https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5
295•njaremko•10h ago•142 comments

MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/08/mklinux-and-pimped-out-apple-workgroup.html
43•goldenskye•4h ago•2 comments

Diátaxis

https://diataxis.fr/
293•ryanseys•10h ago•39 comments

ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine

https://plug-world.com/posts/2026/asrock-bc250-the-budget-steam-machine/
49•plug_world•5h ago•14 comments

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

https://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox
96•tomilan•5h ago•19 comments

Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1vcpk8i/linux_desktop_market_share_has_hit_over_10_in/
147•dviola•4h ago•56 comments

AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/ai-financial-advice-surprisingly-good-especially-if...
276•foxtrot8672•8h ago•238 comments

Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation

https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2026-07-28
66•hhs•8h ago•22 comments

RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc10015.html
54•Jimmc414•7h ago•12 comments

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/
142•juhopitk•12h ago•52 comments

Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components

https://elenajs.com/
11•brianzelip•2d ago•0 comments

When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work

https://insider.btcpp.dev/p/when-randombytes-runs-but-doesnt
26•Funes-•5h ago•7 comments

But can your calculator run Linux?

https://raymii.org/s/articles/But_can_your_calculator_run_Linux.html
88•jandeboevrie•11h ago•9 comments

Deep-sea vehicles spot 'alien' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific

https://www.science.org/content/article/deep-sea-vehicles-spot-alien-sharks-deep-beneath-waves-pa...
34•pkaeding•4h ago•15 comments

The Cipher Behind QSYRUPWD: Reconstructing IBM i Password Hashes

https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2026/07/28/the-cipher-behind-qsyrupwd-reconstructing-ibm-i-password-...
8•kencausey•4d ago•4 comments

Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment

https://rodneybrooks.com/four-time-scales-for-technology-development-and-deployment/
24•jeffreyrogers•4h ago•4 comments

Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter

https://chrismorgan.info/atom%3Erss
51•frizlab•9h ago•20 comments

We accidentally built an LLVM compiler for Jax

https://iza.ac/posts/2026/07/accidental-llvm-compiler-for-jax/
38•infinitewalk•2d ago•10 comments

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds
495•pudgywalsh•13h ago•172 comments

P[drive failure]: how reliable is your NAS?

https://khz.ac/low-voltage/drive-failure.html
8•nosolace•2d ago•7 comments

Morph (YC S23) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/morph/jobs/0Z8vI3K-member-of-technical-staff
1•bhaktatejas922•8h ago

Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctography
69•nanna•4d ago•9 comments

Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga

https://www.seriouseats.com/30-minute-pressure-cooker-pho-ga-recipe
136•stasomatic•15h ago•77 comments

NetBSD 11.0

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released
263•jaypatelani•13h ago•116 comments

Show HN: CostPerPrompt – Live AI API pricing and real-workload cost calculators

https://costperprompt.com/
13•ahmed_hassan7•5h ago•7 comments

Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

https://alexiglad.github.io/blog/2026/explorative_modeling/
96•DSemba•15h ago•25 comments

Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor

https://glyphsapp.com
76•microflash•4d ago•11 comments

CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting

https://censys.com/blog/cisa-alert-water-tower-plc-targeting/
89•speckx•12h ago•62 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.