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Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/37674
115•TheP1000•4h ago•32 comments

The August 17 outage

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
469•0xedb•12h ago•534 comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
693•Ariarule•2d ago•287 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
727•encyclopedism•1d ago•180 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
474•abhisek•18h ago•404 comments

Ox Alpha

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha
115•mtokmak06•7h ago•85 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
257•tyre•13h ago•100 comments

Version Control for Everything

https://tyoverby.com/posts/version-control-for-everything-else/
14•evakhoury•3d ago•1 comments

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)

https://philipdick.com/resources/miscellaneous/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick-by-r-cru...
18•wise_blood•1h ago•6 comments

Stop Making TUIs

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/08/20/stop-making-tuis/
11•underdeserver•1h ago•6 comments

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-inte...
50•rdmuser•1h ago•22 comments

Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents

https://Argentic.network
4•Ag0146•1h ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product

https://github.com/runvendo/vendo
34•yousefh409•15h ago•18 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
154•rafaelc•12h ago•209 comments

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_per...
392•EwanG•1d ago•234 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
288•danielvaughn•12h ago•152 comments

Captain Zilog

https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/
43•rbanffy•3d ago•5 comments

Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K

https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/4nhs-bkwh
36•supermagnet•6d ago•7 comments

Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

https://github.com/vivekhaldar/seed
5•gandalfgeek•2h ago•0 comments

Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
236•Bluestein•15h ago•241 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
239•mariuz•15h ago•81 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
950•emctech•21h ago•298 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html
275•Cider9986•4h ago•205 comments

Git at any scale

https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
322•meetpateltech•2d ago•102 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html
47•arto•1w ago•0 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
149•speckx•16h ago•108 comments

SpacetimeDB: a short technical review

https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/
85•hurrrr•12h ago•17 comments

Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762
224•nunodonato•1d ago•144 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
269•gregsadetsky•13h ago•50 comments

Project Cybersyn (2022)

https://bactra.org/notebooks/cybersyn.html
59•cassepipe•13h ago•45 comments
Open in hackernews

You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis

https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai
22•vijaymohan1979•1y ago

Comments

yohannparis•1y ago
No Pricing information nor an open-source project. I don't know what to do with this product.
jasonlotito•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
maxmcd•1y 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•1y ago
There’s also Polyscale as a service.
vijaymohan1979•1y ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
vijaymohan1979•1y ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
henning•1y 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•1y ago
> Yes, I realize the source is there

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

vijaymohan1979•1y ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
hangonhn•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
solatic•1y 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•1y 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•1y ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A