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Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
68•groomlake•1h ago•20 comments

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
207•shaunpud•4h ago•92 comments

LinkedIn Feed Blocker

https://github.com/andrewpollack/linkedin-feed-blocker
30•andrewpollack•1h ago•26 comments

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/
287•bhavansig•8h ago•92 comments

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/
194•882542F3884314B•7h ago•207 comments

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/
62•rfarley04•5h ago•52 comments

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
62•electricant•4h ago•8 comments

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

https://zaneham.github.io/voyager-fds-emulator/
50•rahen•4h ago•10 comments

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers
33•senko•3h ago•22 comments

US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with...
124•rbanffy•7h ago•164 comments

Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp

https://www.fratepietro.com/2026/ferrox-rust-gguf-inference-engine/
20•antonellof•3d ago•21 comments

BYOC Is Not Just 'Deploy into Their Cloud'

https://omnistrate.com/blog/byoc-anywhere-the-spectrum-of-bring-your-own-cloud-deployments
45•kkgupta•4d ago•9 comments

From your doorbell to your home network

https://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-doorbell-hacking/
37•mmoogle•3d ago•2 comments

A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
362•aanet•2d ago•88 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
273•epestr•10h ago•86 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
724•tosh•1d ago•435 comments

Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/117058483039362779
101•happosai•4h ago•64 comments

No one can afford to make Myst games anymore

https://www.wired.com/story/no-one-can-afford-to-make-myst-games-anymore/
60•littlexsparkee•2d ago•105 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
320•moelf•19h ago•131 comments

Monitors for Work

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/08/05/monitors-for-work/
14•edward•3d ago•1 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
886•RickJWagner•1d ago•1042 comments

Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP

https://toonk.io/index.html
7•bgpdude•1h ago•1 comments

k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25973
48•matt_d•1w ago•8 comments

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/
3•gumby•1h ago•0 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
395•piotrgrabowski•1d ago•97 comments

ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)

https://github.com/alfikpl/ao486
60•csmantle•6d ago•8 comments

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805
100•ilamont•21h ago•84 comments

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-tra...
128•01-_-•8h ago•10 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
242•aagha•23h ago•77 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
464•inigyou•1d ago•448 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.