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Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym

https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/
431•thitran•3h ago•183 comments

PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out

https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/releases/tag/v3.8.0
102•wowi42•2h ago•30 comments

GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do
394•n1b0m•5h ago•332 comments

Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

https://www.science.org/content/article/newton-s-law-gravity-passes-its-biggest-test-ever
53•pseudolus•2h ago•22 comments

How Monero's proof of work works

https://blog.alcazarsec.com/tech/posts/how-moneros-proof-of-work-works
27•alcazar•1h ago•1 comments

Redis array: short story of a long development process

https://antirez.com/news/164
16•antirez•49m ago•5 comments

World's biggest RC A380 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr9YLGbhxng
80•NaOH•1d ago•27 comments

Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringement/
402•maxloh•5h ago•165 comments

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/
309•samcollins•2d ago•108 comments

Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/texico/
117•o4c•2d ago•7 comments

Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)

https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers
57•jxmorris12•2d ago•17 comments

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135
421•nullagent•21h ago•134 comments

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude
568•alattaran•16h ago•239 comments

Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/someone-allegedly-used-a-hairdryer-to-rig-polymarket-weather-be...
69•cdrnsf•1h ago•29 comments

Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/polymarket-kalshi-betting-profits-prediction-markets-eb23ac11
58•JumpCrisscross•3h ago•40 comments

Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)

https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2019/09/hard-disk-geometry-microbenchmarking/
134•TapamN•3d ago•6 comments

A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-treasure-trove-of-cambrian-fossils-rewrites-the-story-of-early-l...
76•worldvoyageur•2d ago•14 comments

Southwest Headquarters Tour

https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/southwest-headquarters-tour-2026.html
289•KatiMichel•22h ago•87 comments

Let's Buy Spirit Air

https://letsbuyspiritair.com/
472•bjhess•15h ago•442 comments

US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-usindian-space-mission-extreme-subsidence.html
187•leopoldj•3d ago•68 comments

Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense

https://guille.site/posts/abstract-nonsense/
34•LolWolf•3d ago•2 comments

OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-eme...
455•donsupreme•1d ago•400 comments

Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors

https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/
182•miohtama•22h ago•19 comments

Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)

https://aruljohn.com/blog/macos-created-tar-files-linux-errors/
131•heresie-dabord•4d ago•88 comments

Introduction to Atom

https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html
116•susam•17h ago•53 comments

A desktop made for one

https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html
397•xngbuilds•23h ago•230 comments

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blind...
491•dryadin•20h ago•475 comments

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
788•teleforce•1d ago•451 comments

Text-to-CAD

https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad
145•softservo•3d ago•38 comments

I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68
119•cyrc•21h ago•39 comments
Open in hackernews

You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis

https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai
22•vijaymohan1979•1y ago

Comments

yohannparis•12mo ago
No Pricing information nor an open-source project. I don't know what to do with this product.
jasonlotito•12mo ago
Assuming the link to the repo is correct: it's open source.

https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/blob/main/LICENSE

bradleyjkemp•12mo ago
I believe this is another case of abusing GitHub for visibility, not actually doing anything meaningful open source

The code in the repo just seems to be connection code ("provides a way for anybody to test our Redis synchronization service on demand") rather than the sync service itself

vijaymohan1979•11mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
maxmcd•12mo ago
Since db cache consistency is a complex research space with things like https://readyset.io/ and https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi13/nsdi13... it would be great to hear more specifics about what this is giving up in order to sidestep all that complexity.
_1tem•12mo ago
There’s also Polyscale as a service.
vijaymohan1979•11mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
vijaymohan1979•11mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
henning•12mo ago
It'd be nice to see documentation of how it works. Is it using a replication channel for Postgres? The write-ahead log? It looks like it does schema introspection and then works off that. How does it handle schema changes? How does this work in scenarios where you have multi-master replication? What's the compatibility with popular Postgres extensions like PostGIS? What happens if the database is rebooted or crashes? Yes I realize the source is there.
porridgeraisin•12mo ago
> Yes, I realize the source is there

It isn't actually. The codein the repo just seems to be some scaffolding.

vijaymohan1979•11mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
hangonhn•12mo ago
Did you really mean to leave your AES key in the code in RedflyEncryptionKeys?

> public const string AesKey = ...

Also, the way AES is used in the code is not good practice. It seems to be using plain AES ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security... ), which isn't meant to be used bare like that. It needs to be coupled with a digest algorithm to protect the ciphertext. Maybe use AesGcm instead?

foxyv•12mo ago
The reason for this is that AES is not an authenticated algorithm so there is no way to determine if the ciphertext has been modified since encryption. The ciphertext could be modified/corrupted and you wouldn't know.

Also, AES is deterministic and will encrypt the same data the same way every time. This means if you are encrypting a lot of fields you will be able to do statistical attacks. Using an initialization vector with AES GCM is similar to salting a hash. This way there is no statistical method to determine the contents of the ciphertext.

vijaymohan1979•11mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
solatic•12mo ago
Can someone ELI5 where this is going to be valuable?

If you set up Postgres read replicas, make sure your queries are covered by appropriate indexes, and your hot queries are handled by Postgres from RAM anyway - do you really need a separate Redis cache?

I feel like anytime I'm going to pull in Redis for a cache, it's going to be for data that I'm not interested in having guaranteed persistency for, like session tokens, and so it'll be for data that I wouldn't be storing in Postgres anyway?

lotharcable•12mo ago
Probably useful for sharing stuff with services that already have access to redis, but you don't want to add SQL client dependencies for and/or don't want to give access to your database.

But you want to be able to store/have single source of authority and update them using a SQL database.

This would then eliminate the need to maintain a separate lambda or cron job or something like that to keep them in sync.

vijaymohan1979•11mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A