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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
2223•qwertox•15h ago•1201 comments

Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-our-neural-network/
97•jsomers•2d ago•30 comments

F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

https://f-droid.org/2026/02/26/board-of-directors-nominations.html
56•edent•3h ago•21 comments

PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/02/26/pmOS-update-2026-02/
32•pantalaimon•1h ago•21 comments

An interactive intro to quadtrees

https://growingswe.com/blog/quadtrees
72•evakhoury•2d ago•5 comments

The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/sociology/2003-ashforth.pdf
137•rendx•7h ago•55 comments

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/
312•moultano•9h ago•122 comments

Breaking Free

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/
49•Aissen•3h ago•8 comments

Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser

https://retrotick.com/
4•lqs_•39m ago•1 comments

Reading English from 1000 Ad

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260224.html
26•LAC-Tech•3d ago•5 comments

The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/02/inside-the-quixotic-team-trying-to-build-an-entire-world-i...
28•nxobject•2d ago•5 comments

What Claude Code chooses

https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks
479•tin7in•19h ago•184 comments

Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style

http://dionisiydk.blogspot.com/2026/02/bpatterns-rewrite-engine-with-smalltalk.html
24•mpweiher•4h ago•1 comments

80386 Protection

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_protection/
95•nand2mario•2d ago•20 comments

Compact disc story (1998)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294484774_Compact_disc_story
18•pipeline_peak•10h ago•5 comments

Ubicloud (YC W24): Software Engineer – $95-$250K in Turkey, Netherlands, CA

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ubicloud/jobs/j4bntEJ-software-engineer
1•ozgune•5h ago

Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddnry8dnl7o
67•cmsefton•3h ago•55 comments

AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026-f1282-paper.pdf
381•DamnInteresting•21h ago•170 comments

The complete Manic Miner disassembly

https://skoolkit.ca/disassemblies/manic_miner/
25•sandebert•5h ago•5 comments

What does " 2>&1 " mean?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/818255/what-does-21-mean
335•alexmolas•17h ago•190 comments

The history of knocking on wood

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/neolithic-habits-machine-age-tools
34•benbreen•2d ago•4 comments

Layoffs at Block

https://twitter.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343
783•mlex•16h ago•866 comments

The Origins of Agar

https://www.asimov.press/p/agar
44•surprisetalk•3d ago•9 comments

Lawmakers say US Military used laser to take down Border Protection drone in TX

https://apnews.com/article/military-laser-border-drone-texas-airport-55aaab7093f7d6dd174f909f3875...
33•thinkcontext•2h ago•26 comments

OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)

https://osmand.net/blog/fast-routing/
197•todsacerdoti•19h ago•77 comments

Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor

https://www.usecardboard.com/
125•sxmawl•19h ago•70 comments

I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye

https://paultendo.github.io/posts/confusable-vision-visual-similarity/
82•paultendo•2d ago•39 comments

Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration

https://github.com/Frikallo/parakeet.cpp
80•noahkay13•9h ago•23 comments

An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/an-introduction-to-the-codex-seraphinianus.html
93•vinhnx•3d ago•19 comments

BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything

https://tuananh.net/2026/02/25/buildkit-docker-hidden-gem/
203•jasonpeacock•23h ago•67 comments
Open in hackernews

You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis

https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai
22•vijaymohan1979•9mo ago

Comments

yohannparis•9mo ago
No Pricing information nor an open-source project. I don't know what to do with this product.
jasonlotito•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
maxmcd•9mo 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•9mo ago
There’s also Polyscale as a service.
vijaymohan1979•9mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
vijaymohan1979•9mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
henning•9mo 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•9mo ago
> Yes, I realize the source is there

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

vijaymohan1979•9mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
hangonhn•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
solatic•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A