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Using LLMs at Oxide

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
227•steveklabnik•4h ago•94 comments

Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab

https://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
77•embedding-shape•2h ago•7 comments

Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2N99BDw7A
238•zdw•6h ago•54 comments

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/
221•turrini•7h ago•84 comments

Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (yes)

https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/10/28/eurydice.html
50•todsacerdoti•4h ago•4 comments

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115647408229616018
531•akyuu•15h ago•234 comments

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/
398•LorenDB•15h ago•175 comments

The past was not that cute

https://juliawise.net/the-past-was-not-that-cute/
98•mhb•7h ago•115 comments

Discovering the indieweb with calm tech

https://alexsci.com/blog/calm-tech-discover/
16•todsacerdoti•2h ago•2 comments

Dhrystone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhrystone
12•krelian•4d ago•1 comments

Perl's decline was cultural

https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
208•todsacerdoti•12h ago•261 comments

United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf]

https://www.usap.gov/usapgov/travelAndDeployment/documents/Continental-Field-Manual-2024.pdf
71•SheinhardtWigCo•7h ago•14 comments

Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251203-japans-disappearing-snow-monsters
57•1659447091•6h ago•3 comments

Zebra-Llama – Towards efficient hybrid models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17272
87•mirrir•9h ago•39 comments

Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters

https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
275•doener•6d ago•115 comments

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)

https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html
222•el3ctron•14h ago•110 comments

Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/11/29/bikeshedding-or-laptop.html
84•cspags•6d ago•63 comments

Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On

https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/vision-sdk/tree/main/item/note/index.md
49•nkali•2d ago•3 comments

OMSCS Open Courseware

https://sites.gatech.edu/omscsopencourseware/
160•kerim-ca•10h ago•65 comments

Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwygqqll9k2o
136•josephcsible•5h ago•79 comments

Oblast: A better Blasto game for the Commodore 64

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/12/oblast-better-blasto-game-for-commodore.html
13•todsacerdoti•4h ago•2 comments

Autism's confusing cousins

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/autisms-confusing-cousins
252•Anon84•18h ago•259 comments

Catala – Law to Code

https://catala-lang.org
60•Grognak•7h ago•35 comments

Removed rust to gain speed

https://www.prisma.io/blog/announcing-prisma-orm-7-0-0
50•2233•4d ago•16 comments

Show HN: FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fusecells-logic-grid-puzzle/id6754704139
24•keini•6h ago•7 comments

Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/coffee-linked-to-slower-biological-ageing-among-those-with-severe-ment...
123•bookofjoe•8h ago•70 comments

What Is Generative UI?

https://tambo.co/blog/posts/what-is-generative-ui
21•grouchy•3d ago•22 comments

Sort the Court – A Free King Simulator Where You Rule with Yes or No

https://www.sort-the-court.com
4•causalzap•4d ago•1 comments

PatchworkOS: An OS for x86_64, built from scratch in C and assembly

https://github.com/KaiNorberg/PatchworkOS
34•pykello•6h ago•2 comments

Mathematics Without Numbers (1959)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20026529?seq=1
40•measurablefunc•5d ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis

https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai
22•vijaymohan1979•7mo ago

Comments

yohannparis•7mo ago
No Pricing information nor an open-source project. I don't know what to do with this product.
jasonlotito•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
maxmcd•7mo 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•7mo ago
There’s also Polyscale as a service.
vijaymohan1979•7mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
vijaymohan1979•7mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
henning•7mo 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•7mo ago
> Yes, I realize the source is there

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

vijaymohan1979•7mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
hangonhn•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
solatic•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A