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Genie 4

https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/
730•acossta•9h ago•434 comments

Ghostty 1.4

https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-4-0
763•deaux•8h ago•227 comments

Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/early-progress-drug-development
125•dataking•4h ago•112 comments

Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update

https://tailscale.com/ssh-investigation-update
193•figmert•5h ago•102 comments

Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer

https://www.brangus.io/survival-llm
186•Luc•5h ago•100 comments

Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-2026-winner-of-nikons-small-world-photomicrograp...
38•_Microft•2d ago•4 comments

Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees

https://bret.dk/raspberry-pi-zero-3-w-pi-4-model-a/
94•sthlmb•4h ago•35 comments

81 Jokes for the ZX81

https://spelk.press/gb/products/81-jokes-for-the-zx81
33•robin_reala•1d ago•1 comments

New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6

https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2026/10/apple-introduces-the-new-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-m6/
283•beex•9h ago•354 comments

Reviewers rarely talk about reliability. Owners bring it up twice as often

https://www.bettascore.ai/research/reliability-reviewers-vs-owners
53•tsxng•3h ago•57 comments

An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada

https://journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jls/article/view/37/33
89•bryanrasmussen•3d ago•15 comments

Python's experimental JIT to be removed

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/
449•f311a•14h ago•234 comments

Four Months of Zig

https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/four-months-of-zig/
74•ibobev•5h ago•42 comments

Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup
449•rbanffy•14h ago•208 comments

New iMac with M6

https://www.apple.com/imac/
307•notfried•12h ago•380 comments

Classification of Finite Simple Groups Formalized in Lean

https://cfsg.axiommath.ai/
170•pfdietz•9h ago•44 comments

SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef

https://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/ss-united-states-to-be-sunk-as-worlds-largest-artifici...
77•geox•1d ago•54 comments

Radio-tagged Monarch butterflies

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/10/cmi-monarchs.html
28•rdmuser•7h ago•9 comments

Tabletop Whale is an original science illustration blog

https://tabletopwhale.com
4•Levitating•3d ago•0 comments

Hex Raises $100M

https://hex.tech/blog/hex-new-era/
49•tomwphillips•5h ago•26 comments

US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans

https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-...
786•helterskelter2•11h ago•283 comments

Introducing LFM3: Every Modality for Specialized Intelligence

https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm3
123•Philpax•8h ago•50 comments

Nvidia and Micron Make Up 34% of America's Earnings Boom

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/the-earnings-boom-is-heavily-reliant-on-just-a-handful-of-stoc...
68•JumpCrisscross•2d ago•9 comments

Why Micron Is Suddenly Ditching 4F² DRAM as Rivals Double Down

https://hothardware.com/news/why-micron-is-suddenly-ditching-4f-dram
142•rbanffy•1d ago•22 comments

Land Value Capture in Practice: Ethiopia's Urban Land Lease System

https://blog.landeconomics.org/p/land-value-capture-in-practice-reflections
46•surprisetalk•1d ago•9 comments

Moxnox 1.0: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible OS Running Atop Btrfs

https://github.com/maharmstone/moxnox
10•SockThief•1h ago•1 comments

Three TLS Bugs in GoAhead

https://foxio.io/blog/choose-your-backend-three-tls-bugs-in-goahead
59•owenshen24•7h ago•14 comments

Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government

https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-partnership-gsa
19•matthieu_bl•3h ago•12 comments

Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google

https://discord.com/blog/making-content-from-discoverable-servers-easier-to-discover
248•DeepLogin•7h ago•131 comments

Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-ai-division-failure-nova
263•dpflan•9h ago•176 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.