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The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage [pdf]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adv0660
1•thunderbong•41s ago•0 comments

Los Alamos Primer

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/los-alamos-primer/
1•alkyon•2m ago•0 comments

NewASM Virtual Machine

https://github.com/bracesoftware/newasm
1•DEntisT_•5m ago•0 comments

Terminal-Bench 2.0 Leaderboard

https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

I vibe coded a BBS bank with a real working ledger

https://mini-ledger.exe.xyz/
1•simonvc•5m ago•1 comments

The Path to Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/the-path-to-mojo-1-0
1•tosh•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism

https://github.com/voice-of-japan/Virtual-Protest-Protocol/blob/main/README.md
4•sakanakana00•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built Divvy to split restaurant bills from a photo

https://divvyai.app/
3•pieterdy•14m ago•0 comments

Hot Reloading in Rust? Subsecond and Dioxus to the Rescue

https://codethoughts.io/posts/2026-02-07-rust-hot-reloading/
3•Tehnix•14m ago•1 comments

Skim – vibe review your PRs

https://github.com/Haizzz/skim
2•haizzz•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Open-source AI assistant for interview reasoning

https://github.com/evinjohnn/natively-cluely-ai-assistant
4•Nive11•16m ago•6 comments

Tech Edge: A Living Playbook for America's Technology Long Game

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-01/260120_EST_Tech_Edge_0.pdf?Version...
2•hunglee2•20m ago•0 comments

Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

https://chartscout.io/golden-cross-vs-death-cross-crypto-trading-guide
2•chartscout•22m ago•0 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
3•AlexeyBrin•25m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
2•machielrey•26m ago•1 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
3•tablets•31m ago•1 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
2•breve•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•36m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
2•pastage•36m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
2•billiob•37m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
2•birdculture•42m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•48m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•49m ago•1 comments

Slop News - The Front Page right now but it's only Slop

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•54m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•56m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
4•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
4•oxxoxoxooo•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•1h ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
4•goranmoomin•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

4•throwaw12•1h ago•0 comments
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A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/realestate/beech-leaf-disease.html
40•jgwil2•5mo ago

Comments

SoftTalker•5mo ago
Emerald ash borer got all the ash trees on my wooded property a few years ago. Pretty amazing to watch that happen in real time.
bevr1337•5mo ago
Can ash splints still be made from the trees they infest? Do you burn the trees? Very curious to hear more about your experience
SoftTalker•5mo ago
Right now they are just standing dead. I need to do something about that soon.
bevr1337•5mo ago
A basket maker might see an exchange beneficially. Splints are a great resource. I suspect the outer splints to be a little worse for wear.
SoftTalker•5mo ago
I didn't know what an ash splint was. I'd guess they are best obtained from a live-cut tree that is still "green"? Mine would all be pretty dry by now.
bevr1337•5mo ago
Thanks for sharing your experience.

A different one, but the spotted lanternfly finally found my grapes. I'm at a total loss for how to protect them. The local university is studying oils and sprays, but they don't have any guidance yet.

The wheel bug is the first predator to realize the lantern fly is a tasty morsel. I hope we can continue coaching other insects to eat the invasives.

SoftTalker•5mo ago
From wikipeda, it sounds like wasps are a natural predator. Not sure which native wasps might go for them or how to encourage that.

Chickens would probably eat them but they might eat your grapes as well.

throwup238•5mo ago
An insect hotel tailored to the native wasps' nesting behavior would probably work best for attracting them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_hotel
plipt•5mo ago
In my area we've had the Spotted lanternfly for more than 5 years now, maybe closer to 10. In the first year or two they could be seen in huge numbers. Since then they've waned off considerably. Like last year I don't recall seeing many at all. This summer they are back but still nothing compared to that initial wave. I've seen birds eating them, leaving lots of disembodied red wings in my backyard. Feels like they will reach some equilibrium stable population.

I hope your grapes make it through

onlypassingthru•5mo ago
I love working with ash. You can do a lot with it if you turn it into lumber before it rots.
margalabargala•5mo ago
They usually just stand there. There are too many to easily take down, and are mixed in with other trees.

The whole east half of the continental US is one large storm away from thousands of fallen dead trees.

bevr1337•5mo ago
Might be off by a few orders of magnitude there. Even 10,000 trees would represent 0.006% of the trees in my state. (Hint: it's the smallest one.)

There are estimates that 13-25% of tree growth in our state has died over the last decade. That's closer to 50 million.

bombcar•5mo ago
Even a moderately strong storm (only two warning sirens) took down thousands if not tens of thousands of living trees near me.

Weirdly, dead trees can survive better because without leaves they don’t catch as much wind.

Jgrubb•5mo ago
Good grief, another one?
pfdietz•5mo ago
Welcome to the Homogenocene, where ecosystems across the world are irreversibly mixed. All those species that depended on isolation? Sorry Charlie.
ctoth•5mo ago
I was watching Star Wars recently and a little voice in the back of my head kept freaking out about the lack of biosecurity -- "sure let's just tromp directly from this planet to another one without even changing our shoes!"
pfdietz•5mo ago
I'm guessing by the time of these stories the ecosystems have already been hopelessly corrupted. This could be especially catastrophic when some alien biochemistry that uses (say) dioxins as building blocks gets introduced. It makes all the "let's blow up planets" more understandable, I suppose.
comrade1234•5mo ago
They (the European version at least) also have a symbiotic relationship with Trumpet of the Dead. There's an ancient forest near me with beach trees and you find the black trumpets in areas where there's several very old and giant beach trees in proximity.
amanaplanacanal•5mo ago
I've also recently learned about Sudden Oak Death, a fungus which is ravaging forests in California and Oregon. Evidently it is unknown where it came from.
Amezarak•5mo ago
It's really wild. I wonder what trees we'll have left!

Besides the famous case of the chestnut:

Dogwoods are being wiped out, mostly gone in some areas, disease originating from Asia: https://henderson.ces.ncsu.edu/2021/03/native-dogwoods-long-...

Sassafras trees wiped out by Asian beetle causing laurel wilt: https://www.lsuagcenter.com/articles/page1685633928383

American elms largely wiped out by Dutch elm disease (also actually originates from Asia) https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/pathogens-an...

Others in this thread have talked about the threats to ash. It's very disheartening, but I guess it's the inevitable price of globalization.

pfdietz•5mo ago
Chestnut is being rescued by a two-pronged approach using hybridization (with a resistant asian species, followed by backcrosses to get something that is mostly American Chestnut) and genetic engineering (introducing a wheat gene that destroys oxalate, which the fungus uses to kill tissue.)
plipt•5mo ago
I wonder, does Asia and Europe have nearly as many problems with North American invasive plants / pests / diseases as North America does with its non-natives?

Being from the US, I don't recall any such stories in the news.

bgnn•5mo ago
Oh we do! There's a nice statistic fron the Netherlands about the number of invasive species, which is exponentially growing: https://www.clo.nl/en/indicators/en162202-alien-species-in-t...

Most of these are from Asia and Noth America.

cedws•5mo ago
DEA will be delighted about that second one.
chasil•5mo ago
https://archive.ph/eKd9C
Suppafly•5mo ago
Seems like there is a disease for pretty much every American tree, before long all we'll have is maples and random non-natives.