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GPT-5.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
357•rd•57m ago•127 comments

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
195•mfiguiere•1h ago•110 comments

Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised
420•tosh•4h ago•198 comments

MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code

https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split
50•wielebny•2h ago•25 comments

Incident with multple GitHub services

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p
104•bwannasek•2h ago•54 comments

French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/french-govt-agency-confirms-breach-as-hacker-offer...
288•robtherobber•2h ago•101 comments

I am building a cloud

https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
863•bumbledraven•14h ago•436 comments

A DIY Watch You Can Actually Wear

https://www.hackster.io/news/a-diy-watch-you-can-actually-wear-8f91c2dac682
69•sarusso•2d ago•40 comments

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder If They're the Bad Guys

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/
130•pavel_lishin•1h ago•87 comments

Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite

https://github.com/russellromney/honker
187•russellthehippo•7h ago•26 comments

Your hex editor should color-code bytes

https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/
411•tobr•2d ago•121 comments

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages...
801•cdrnsf•22h ago•179 comments

To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/to-protect-and-swerve-nypd-cop-has-527-speeding-tickets-ye...
169•greedo•3h ago•111 comments

I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable

https://tenphi.me/blog/why-i-spent-years-trying-to-make-css-states-predictable/
10•tenphi•6h ago•2 comments

If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/if-americas-so-rich-howd-it-get-so
203•momentmaker•2h ago•385 comments

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities

https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
871•danpinto•1d ago•262 comments

Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)

https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/c-compiler-1-zig/
100•tosh•9h ago•33 comments

Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-p...
341•mentalgear•6h ago•118 comments

Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image

https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/
247•maxloh•17h ago•87 comments

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring

https://jiga.io/about-us/
1•grmmph•6h ago

Middle Eastern News Sites Are U.S. Government Propaganda Ops

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/20/pentagon-middle-eastern-news-propaganda-iran/
14•robtherobber•39m ago•0 comments

A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-renaissance-gambling-dispute-spawned-probability...
71•sohkamyung•2d ago•11 comments

'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/23/hairdryer-used-trick-weather-sensor-34000-polymar...
183•zdw•1h ago•181 comments

Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
2072•Kaibeezy•1d ago•709 comments

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
774•zdw•4d ago•151 comments

Isopods of the world

https://isopod.site/
114•debesyla•2d ago•46 comments

Our newsroom AI policy

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/
165•zdw•13h ago•109 comments

People Do Not Yearn for Automation

https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation
24•icco•1h ago•12 comments

The end of responsive images

https://piccalil.li/blog/the-end-of-responsive-images/
36•OuterVale•5h ago•16 comments

Raylib v6.0

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/releases/tag/6.0
170•rydgel•6h ago•25 comments
Open in hackernews

You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis

https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai
22•vijaymohan1979•11mo ago

Comments

yohannparis•11mo ago
No Pricing information nor an open-source project. I don't know what to do with this product.
jasonlotito•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
maxmcd•11mo 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•11mo ago
There’s also Polyscale as a service.
vijaymohan1979•11mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
vijaymohan1979•11mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
henning•11mo 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•11mo ago
> Yes, I realize the source is there

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

vijaymohan1979•11mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
hangonhn•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
solatic•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A