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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
218•theblazehen•2d ago•64 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
688•klaussilveira•15h ago•204 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
960•xnx•20h ago•553 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
127•matheusalmeida•2d ago•35 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
65•videotopia•4d ago•5 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
50•jesperordrup•5h ago•24 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
32•kaonwarb•3d ago•27 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
236•isitcontent•15h ago•26 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
230•dmpetrov•15h ago•121 comments

ga68, the GNU Algol 68 Compiler – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
9•matt_d•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
335•vecti•17h ago•147 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
500•todsacerdoti•23h ago•244 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
28•speckx•3d ago•17 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
384•ostacke•21h ago•97 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
299•eljojo•18h ago•187 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
360•aktau•21h ago•183 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
421•lstoll•21h ago•281 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
67•kmm•5d ago•10 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
95•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
21•bikenaga•3d ago•11 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
263•i5heu•18h ago•215 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
33•romes•4d ago•3 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
38•gmays•10h ago•13 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1076•cdrnsf•1d ago•460 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
295•surprisetalk•3d ago•46 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
61•gfortaine•13h ago•27 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
153•vmatsiiako•20h ago•72 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
161•SerCe•11h ago•149 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
14•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
74•phreda4•14h ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

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.