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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creat...
960•haunter•8h ago•323 comments

UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing

https://bmmagazine.co.uk/news/uk-jet-fuel-shortage-rationing-goldman-sachs-warning/
59•OgsyedIE•1h ago•40 comments

Appearing productive in the workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
619•diebillionaires•7h ago•246 comments

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/
337•e12e•8h ago•361 comments

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-t...
180•unforgivenpasta•5h ago•176 comments

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

https://blog.val.town/better-auth
183•stevekrouse•6h ago•110 comments

The bottleneck was never the code

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/thoughts-on-coding-agents
480•Anon84•2d ago•312 comments

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html
78•benanne•5h ago•17 comments

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118•ozkatz•7h ago•89 comments

Inkscape 1.4.4

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179•s1291•4h ago•44 comments

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116•bstrama•7h ago•118 comments

Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

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28•dmos62•1d ago•6 comments

A Theory of Deep Learning

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107•elonlit•1d ago•24 comments

Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC

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10•zeech•1d ago•1 comments

Ted Turner has died

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206•pseudolus•8h ago•169 comments

Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

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88•oahmadov•7h ago•21 comments

David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

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61•PhotonHunter•1h ago•32 comments

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23•asmodios•3h ago•5 comments

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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349•meetpateltech•7h ago•281 comments

Following the Text Gradient at Scale

http://ai.stanford.edu/blog/feedback-descent/
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Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/
120•jandeboevrie•13h ago•44 comments

Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software

https://adaptivesoftware.substack.com/p/the-wrapper-and-the-code
46•iristenteije•2h ago•11 comments

What makes a good smartphone camera?

https://cadence.moe/blog/2026-05-05-what-makes-a-good-smartphone-camera
69•zdw•1d ago•50 comments

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors

https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2026/04/batteries-not-included-or-required-these-smart-home-sensors
194•gnabgib•3d ago•83 comments

Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/disneyland-entrance-facial-recognition
28•Cider9986•2h ago•5 comments

SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags

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23•jonbaer•6h ago•1 comments

Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit

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1•botacode•11h ago

Virtual violin produces realistic sounds

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71•gmays•3d ago•59 comments

Going Full Time on Open Source

https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/
159•thunderbong•6h ago•31 comments

Google tools for customizing searches

https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has-a-secret-reference-desk
67•maxutility•19h ago•17 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•12mo 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•12mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
vijaymohan1979•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A