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Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)

https://www.nwo.nl/nieuws/eerste-internationale-wetenschappers-via-het-tulp-fonds-naar-nederland
36•28304283409234•1h ago•10 comments

PostgreSQL Benchmark: AWS RDS vs. Self-Hosted on Hetzner (2026)

https://hostim.dev/blog/postgres-benchmark-rds-vs-hostim-vs-self-hosted/
14•pv1337•59m ago•0 comments

OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
692•peter_d_sherman•17h ago•256 comments

CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

https://www.comaps.app/
633•basilikum•17h ago•140 comments

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-upcoming-ai-margin-collapse-part-1-glm-5-2/
504•martinald•15h ago•300 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

https://9mothers.com/careers
1•ukd1•6m ago

Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world

https://thisbugslife.com/2021/11/21/dolosse-a-south-african-invention-used-over-the-world/
81•andsoitis•2d ago•20 comments

How to sequence your own DNA at home

https://bradleywoolf.com/links-1/sequencing-my-own-dna-at-home
260•bilsbie•11h ago•103 comments

Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models-ai-pharmaceuticals
171•sscaryterry•12h ago•60 comments

Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID

https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-hackers-arrest-reveals-microsoft-can-track-users-via-a-windows-device
119•ifh-hn•3h ago•57 comments

Historic Photos of NASA's Cavernous Wind Tunnels

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/05/historic-photos-of-nasas-cavernous-wind-tunnels/560660/
25•ohjeez•2d ago•3 comments

Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

https://github.com/MaximeRivest/Riddle
506•modinfo•13h ago•326 comments

Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)

https://ternlight-demo.vercel.app/
263•soycaporal•13h ago•57 comments

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
54•archargelod•6h ago•14 comments

A global workspace in language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
393•in-silico•18h ago•150 comments

Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)

https://whimfiles.com
23•whimbyte•3h ago•17 comments

In Praise of Observational Evidence

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/in-praise-of-observational-evidence
36•fi-le•5d ago•2 comments

Resetting Xbox

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/
656•dijksterhuis•21h ago•728 comments

AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halo
344•LabsLucas•21h ago•229 comments

Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/how-we-prune-rag-context
114•emil_sorensen•16h ago•29 comments

Not Dark Yet

https://agoodhardstare.substack.com/p/not-dark-yet
6•paulpauper•3d ago•0 comments

Inkfield

https://www.inkfield.studio
31•surprisetalk•3d ago•7 comments

Linux on the Atari Jaguar

https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-for-jaguar/
161•cakehonolulu•17h ago•48 comments

OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released

https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-10.4
89•throw0101a•13h ago•16 comments

OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files

https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI
191•maxloh•19h ago•56 comments

Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013)

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/05/dropping-in-on-gottfried-leibniz/
7•aragonite•3d ago•3 comments

Learning to code is still worthwhile

https://stevekrouse.com/learn-to-code
237•stevekrouse•15h ago•229 comments

Rotman Lens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotman_lens
119•thomasjb•5d ago•38 comments

Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359]

https://github.com/V4bel/Januscape
116•Imustaskforhelp•18h ago•46 comments

M/PC – A Concatenative OS

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/m_pc.html
71•caminanteblanco•15h ago•10 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.