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https://turtletoy.net/
90•ustad•4d ago•10 comments

I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

https://j0nah.com/i-failed-to-recreate-the-1996-space-jam-website-with-claude/
389•thecr0w•13h ago•323 comments

Bag of words, have mercy on us

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us
126•ntnbr•7h ago•127 comments

Damn Small Linux

https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
38•grubbs•4h ago•7 comments

Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs
339•bookofjoe•15h ago•488 comments

Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw6833
95•defrost•8h ago•33 comments

The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4sDL9Ljww
230•AareyBaba•12h ago•229 comments

Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory

https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/
450•Alifatisk•18h ago•147 comments

Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/work-disincentives-hit-the-near-poor-hardest-why-and-what-to-do-ab...
65•folump•5d ago•37 comments

Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040119-00/?p=41003
51•HeliumHydride•3d ago•23 comments

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform

https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/
185•pykello•5d ago•23 comments

Emacs Is My New Window Manager

https://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html
4•gpi•2d ago•0 comments

Scala 3 slowed us down?

https://kmaliszewski9.github.io/scala/2025/12/07/scala3-slowdown.html
205•kmaliszewski•15h ago•129 comments

CATL expects oceanic electric ships in 3 years

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/05/catl-expects-oceanic-electric-ships-in-3-years/
95•thelastgallon•1d ago•92 comments

The Anatomy of a macOS App

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/04/the-anatomy-of-a-macos-app/
211•elashri•17h ago•59 comments

Socialist ends by market means: A history

https://lucasvance.github.io/2100/history/
58•sirponm•3h ago•37 comments

How I block all online ads

https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/
136•StrLght•8h ago•112 comments

I wasted years of my life in crypto

https://twitter.com/kenchangh/status/1994854381267947640
123•Anon84•17h ago•169 comments

Toyota unintended acceleration and the big bowl of "spaghetti" code (2013)

https://www.safetyresearch.net/toyota-unintended-acceleration-and-the-big-bowl-of-spaghetti-code/
27•SoKamil•5h ago•25 comments

(2018) How I created a database of all interesting Rush Hour configurations

https://www.michaelfogleman.com/rush/
6•xeonmc•1w ago•1 comments

Build a DIY magnetometer with a couple of seasoning bottles

https://spectrum.ieee.org/listen-to-protons-diy-magnetometer
78•nullbyte808•1w ago•17 comments

Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning

https://research.google/blog/introducing-nested-learning-a-new-ml-paradigm-for-continual-learning/
103•themgt•15h ago•2 comments

A two-person method to simulate die rolls (2023)

https://blog.42yeah.is/algorithm/2023/08/05/two-person-die.html
58•Fraterkes•2d ago•34 comments

Minimum Viable Arduino Project: Aeropress Timer

https://netninja.com/2025/12/01/minimum-viable-arduino-project-aeropress-timer/
28•surprisetalk•5d ago•16 comments

The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Goodbye-Microsoft-Schleswig-Holstein-relies-on-Open-Source-and-saves...
538•doener•17h ago•243 comments

Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners

https://thorsell.io/2025/12/07/estimates.html
185•todsacerdoti•11h ago•190 comments

Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep

https://howtech.substack.com/p/spinlocks-vs-mutexes-when-to-spin
59•birdculture•5h ago•12 comments

Java Hello World, LLVM Edition

https://www.javaadvent.com/2025/12/java-hello-world-llvm-edition.html
171•ingve•18h ago•66 comments

Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning

https://www.anildash.com/2025/12/02/vibe-coding-empowering-and-imprisoning/
45•zdw•5d ago•31 comments

Show HN: Cdecl-dump - represent C declarations visually

https://github.com/bbu/cdecl-dump
14•bluetomcat•5h ago•7 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