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Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and Nvram

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/restoring-a-sun-sparcstation-ipx-part-1-psu-and-nvram
14•ibobev•1h ago•2 comments

Fontcrafter: Turn Your Handwriting into a Real Font

https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html
284•rendx•7h ago•94 comments

I'm Getting a Whiff of Iain Banks' Culture

https://probablydance.com/2026/03/07/im-getting-a-whiff-of-iain-banks-culture/
21•ibobev•1h ago•13 comments

Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1q6xnun/flash_media_longevity_testing_6_years_later/
36•1970-01-01•1d ago•6 comments

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/
558•robin_reala•6h ago•304 comments

Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol

https://tamarack.cloud/blog/reverse-engineering-unifi-inform-protocol
73•baconomatic•4h ago•25 comments

FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/capsicum-vs-seccomp
60•vermaden•3h ago•17 comments

US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/memoranda/2026/03/03/25-403.pdf
422•dryadin•10h ago•330 comments

Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day

https://www.twz.com/air/kuwaiti-f-a-18s-triple-friendly-fire-shootdown-gets-stranger-by-the-day
47•throwawayffffas•56m ago•1 comments

The Window Chrome of Our Discontent

https://pxlnv.com/blog/window-chrome-of-our-discontent/
86•zdw•2d ago•33 comments

Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04782
82•runningmike•3d ago•48 comments

Show HN: VS Code Agent Kanban: Task Management for the AI-Assisted Developer

https://www.appsoftware.com/blog/introducing-vs-code-agent-kanban-task-management-for-the-ai-assi...
64•gbro3n•6h ago•27 comments

Algebraic topology: knots links and braids

https://aeb.win.tue.nl/at/algtop-5.html
7•marysminefnuf•2h ago•0 comments

Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents

https://agent-safehouse.dev/
742•atombender•20h ago•169 comments

FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/02/video-engineering/ffmpeg-at-meta-media-processing-at-scale/
118•sudhakaran88•11h ago•59 comments

Segagaga Has Been Translated into English

https://www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2026/02/segagaga-has-finally-been-translated.html
66•nanna•1d ago•18 comments

Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuR-772cks
570•zdw•1d ago•76 comments

The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/the-engine-of-germanys-wealth-is-blocking-its-future
139•mariuz•1h ago•154 comments

No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026

https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/thread/P6D36VZSZBUSSTSMZKFXKF4T4IXWN23P/
29•speckx•4h ago•12 comments

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

240•david927•16h ago•862 comments

PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug

https://github.com/Dieu-de-l-elec/AngstromIO-devboard
241•zachlatta•1d ago•59 comments

Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/revealed-uks-multibillion-ai-drive-is-built-on...
36•tablets•1h ago•9 comments

Ask HN: Can I repurpose a Bluetooth voice remote as input device for a PC?

7•albert_e•1d ago•4 comments

Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers

https://www.wired.com/story/grammarly-is-offering-expert-ai-reviews-from-your-favorite-authors-de...
55•jmsflknr•4d ago•74 comments

Every single board computer I tested in 2025

https://bret.dk/every-single-board-computer-i-tested-in-2025/
207•speckx•4d ago•65 comments

The Finger and the Moon

https://taylor.town/finger-moon
14•surprisetalk•3d ago•2 comments

FrameBook

https://fb.edoo.gg
493•todsacerdoti•1d ago•82 comments

My Homelab Setup

https://bryananthonio.com/blog/my-homelab-setup/
308•photon_collider•23h ago•205 comments

Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021)

https://offlinemark.com/an-obscure-quirk-of-proc/
116•medbar•17h ago•26 comments

My “grand vision” for Rust

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/a-grand-vision-for-rust/
251•todsacerdoti•4d ago•271 comments
Open in hackernews

You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis

https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai
22•vijaymohan1979•10mo ago

Comments

yohannparis•10mo ago
No Pricing information nor an open-source project. I don't know what to do with this product.
jasonlotito•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
maxmcd•10mo 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•10mo ago
There’s also Polyscale as a service.
vijaymohan1979•10mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
vijaymohan1979•10mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
henning•10mo 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•10mo ago
> Yes, I realize the source is there

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

vijaymohan1979•10mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
hangonhn•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
solatic•10mo 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•10mo 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•10mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A