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https://www.meta.com/vr-glasses/
112•polymorph1sm•50m ago•59 comments

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux
96•aaronday•2h ago•41 comments

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system
457•raahelb•6h ago•504 comments

VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/
106•Rapzid•3h ago•71 comments

ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/
36•JohnHammersley•1h ago•2 comments

We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary

https://blog.cloudflare.com/vary-support/
52•thisisfatih•2h ago•6 comments

The "Windows XP Box" (2003)

https://www.mini-itx.com/projects/windowsxpbox/
27•doubletwoyou•1d ago•3 comments

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html
375•avidly•9h ago•85 comments

Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mercury-2-5
30•Retro_Dev•2h ago•10 comments

LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages

https://huggingface.co/apple/LensVLM-9B
47•victormustar•6h ago•5 comments

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567
562•geox•7h ago•357 comments

The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/09/13/the-mystery-animal-on-an-ancient-gods-head/
45•surprisetalk•1d ago•14 comments

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260922-00/?p=112719/
107•tybulewicz•6h ago•46 comments

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/
247•swolpers•9h ago•118 comments

Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol

https://radicle.dev/2026/09/23/disclosure-of-vulnerability-in-network-protocol
119•lostmsu•9h ago•45 comments

Making Tailscale Faster

https://tailscale.com/blog/making-tailscale-faster
52•yarapavan•6h ago•17 comments

Tokens too cheap to meter

https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/
226•teoruiz•15h ago•178 comments

The Curious Power of Punctuation

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/28/on-the-mark-louis-menand-book-review
18•pepys•1d ago•3 comments

I don't want the details

https://michaelheap.com/i-dont-want-the-details/
343•mooreds•11h ago•193 comments

Z80 REPL (2018)

https://abagames.github.io/z80-repl/index.html
143•adunk•13h ago•18 comments

Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/swap-zram-zswap-and-hibernate-on-nixos/
29•speckx•6h ago•6 comments

Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

https://blog.szypowi.cz/p/claude-code-reads-agents.md-only-when-telemetry-is-on/
443•pszypowicz•12h ago•250 comments

Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes

https://www.forensicdbg.com
24•Loren_SL•5h ago•4 comments

A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2534899123
10•Thevet•3d ago•0 comments

28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

https://unlisted.careers/ghost-jobs/report/2026-09
225•rubatrejo•8h ago•292 comments

Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster

https://claude.dev/blog/how-we-made-claude-ai-faster/
152•matthieu_bl•5h ago•94 comments

Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

https://stripe.dev/blog/meet-stripes-knowledge-ai-platform
172•ltononro•11h ago•108 comments

Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries

https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/seattle-city-council-votes-to-ban-surveillance...
299•ortusdux•10h ago•188 comments

GPT-6 Sol and Luna

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/
1730•OfficialTurkey•1d ago•822 comments

QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Sales Engineer

https://questdb.com/careers/pre-sales-engineer-north-america/
1•nhourcard•12h 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
•
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.