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Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’

https://thenewstack.io/adafruit-arduinos-rules-are-incompatible-with-open-source/
72•MilnerRoute•11h ago•20 comments

Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time

https://en.jardineriaon.com/The-talipot-palm-trees-of-Rio-de-Janeiro-bloom-for-the-first-and-only...
92•1659447091•1w ago•23 comments

Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets

https://arborium.bearcove.eu/
34•zdw•2h ago•2 comments

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

216•david927•13h ago•710 comments

How well do you know C++ auto type deduction?

https://www.volatileint.dev/posts/auto-type-deduction-gauntlet/
18•volatileint•5d ago•4 comments

John Varley has died

http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2025/12/john-varley-1947-2025.html
32•decimalenough•3h ago•5 comments

The Whole App is a Blob

https://drobinin.com/posts/the-whole-app-is-a-blob/
23•valzevul•2h ago•2 comments

The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America (1963)

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/46/2/LatinAmerica.htm
16•rramadass•9h ago•3 comments

CapROS: Capability-Based Reliable Operating System

https://www.capros.org/
66•gjvc•5h ago•25 comments

Read Something Wonderful

https://readsomethingwonderful.com/
54•snorbleck•1h ago•9 comments

Elevated errors across many models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/9g6qpr72ttbr
289•pablo24602•8h ago•138 comments

Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

https://borretti.me/article/hashcards-plain-text-spaced-repetition
291•thomascountz•13h ago•134 comments

JSDoc is TypeScript

https://culi.bearblog.dev/jsdoc-is-typescript/
138•culi•10h ago•176 comments

An attempt to articulate Forth's practical strengths and eternal usefulness

https://im-just-lee.ing/forth-why-cb234c03.txt
39•todsacerdoti•1w ago•21 comments

In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
122•wseqyrku•6d ago•58 comments

SoundCloud just banned VPN access

https://old.reddit.com/r/SoundCloudMusic/comments/1pltd19/soundcloud_just_banned_vpn_access/
60•empressplay•3h ago•37 comments

Rob Reiner,Legendary Director and Actor,and Wife Found Dead in Apparent Homicide

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/rob-reiner-ldead-obituary-1235483876/
19•croes•53m ago•3 comments

2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web

https://cybercultural.com/p/lastfm-audioscrobbler-2002/
180•cdrnsf•9h ago•105 comments

History of Declarative Programming

https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos_15.html
41•measurablefunc•7h ago•11 comments

The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System

https://www.typeframe.net/
105•birdculture•12h ago•33 comments

DARPA GO: Generative Optogenetics

https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/go
34•birriel•7h ago•11 comments

Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem

https://trigger.dev/blog/shai-hulud-postmortem
205•nkko•20h ago•126 comments

Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons

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180•alin23•4d ago•108 comments

Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index
118•teleforce•14h ago•49 comments

Running on Empty: Copper

https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/running-on-empty-copper
44•the-needful•6d ago•40 comments

AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2

https://www.ufried.com/blog/ironies_of_ai_2/
226•BinaryIgor•16h ago•98 comments

Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities

https://castiching.com/
12•jackzhuo•20h ago•9 comments

Younger Futhorc (ᛡᛟᛝᛖᚱ᛬ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳ)

https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/youngerfuthorc.htm
21•rbc•5d ago•4 comments

Getting into public speaking

https://james.brooks.page/blog/getting-into-public-speaking
126•jbrooksuk•4d ago•42 comments

Baumol's Cost Disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
107•drra•17h ago•107 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