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Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html
180•birdculture•2h ago•100 comments

LearnixOS

https://www.learnix-os.com
46•gtirloni•2h ago•12 comments

High School Student Discovers 1.5M Potential New Astronomical Objects

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/high-school-student-discovers-1-5-million-potential-new...
8•mhb•22m ago•2 comments

Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/james-baldwin-joan-didion-92ny-recordings.html
33•tintinnabula•4d ago•2 comments

The Algebra of Loans in Rust

https://nadrieril.github.io/blog/2025/12/21/the-algebra-of-loans-in-rust.html
103•g0xA52A2A•3d ago•51 comments

Maybe the default settings are too high

https://www.raptitude.com/2025/12/maybe-the-default-settings-are-too-high/
735•htk•16h ago•249 comments

What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World? (1985)

https://www.straightdope.com/21341789/what-happened-to-all-the-gold-spain-got-from-the-new-world
18•titaniumtown•4d ago•18 comments

I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/im-a-laptop-weirdo-and-thats-why-i-like-my-new-framework-13/
138•todsacerdoti•3h ago•128 comments

Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/23/
16•rcarmo•3h ago•0 comments

An 11-qubit atom processor in silicon with all fidelities from 99.10% to 99.99%

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09827-w
23•giuliomagnifico•5d ago•21 comments

ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

https://community.openai.com/t/timestamps-for-chats-in-chatgpt/440107?page=3
91•Valid3840•2h ago•48 comments

TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models

https://github.com/thu-ml/TurboDiffusion
143•meander_water•12h ago•28 comments

Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/obituaries/inge-lehmann-overlooked.html
28•Hooke•3d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players

https://gamingcouch.com
299•ChaosOp•5d ago•98 comments

Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf]

https://douira.dev/assets/document/douira-master-thesis.pdf
36•HeliumHydride•5h ago•14 comments

MiniMax M2.1: Built for Real-World Complex Tasks, Multi-Language Programming

https://www.minimaxi.com/news/minimax-m21
176•110•14h ago•65 comments

Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith

https://catalinionescu.dev/ai-agent/building-ai-agent-part-1/
70•cionescu1•8h ago•30 comments

How to Reproduce This Book with LaTeX

https://github.com/BenjaminGor/Latex_Notes_Tutorial
52•nill0•1w ago•8 comments

Tiled Art

https://tiled.art/en/home/?id=SilverAndGold
203•meander_water•1w ago•11 comments

Understanding the Northern Lights

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/understanding-northern-lights
8•benbreen•6d ago•0 comments

Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Frobpike.io%2Fpost%2F3matwg6w3ic2s&...
317•christoph-heiss•1h ago•321 comments

Fahrplan – 39C3

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/
328•rurban•20h ago•149 comments

Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster

https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/no-longer-sorry.html
381•lumpa•1d ago•129 comments

Show HN: GeneGuessr – a daily biology web puzzle

https://geneguessr.brinedew.bio/
65•brinedew•3d ago•13 comments

The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized

https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new-yorker-archive-is-now-fully-digitized
449•thm•6d ago•59 comments

The First Web Server

https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-first-web-server/
10•giuliomagnifico•4h ago•1 comments

Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH

https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/hardware-touch-stronger-ssh
23•furkansahin•4d ago•17 comments

Lessons from a year of Postgres CDC in production

https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgres-cdc-year-in-review-2025
59•saisrirampur•6d ago•5 comments

Tachyon: High frequency statistical sampling profiler

https://docs.python.org/3.15/library/profiling.sampling.html
82•vismit2000•4d ago•3 comments

CUDA Tile Open Sourced

https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-tile
186•JonChesterfield•6d ago•94 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