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AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods
622•moonleay•8h ago•148 comments

Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today

https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html
1530•immibis•22h ago•383 comments

IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

https://codeberg.org/IDEmacs/IDEmacs
176•nogajun•7h ago•40 comments

Things that aren't doing the thing

https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-thing
251•downboots•14h ago•123 comments

libwifi: an 802.11 frame parsing and generation library written in C

https://libwifi.so/
97•vitalnodo•10h ago•9 comments

When did people favor composition over inheritance?

https://www.sicpers.info/2025/11/when-did-people-favor-composition-over-inheritance/
154•ingve•1w ago•103 comments

The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024)

https://blog.polybdenum.com/2024/06/07/the-inconceivable-types-of-rust-how-to-make-self-borrows-s...
77•birdculture•9h ago•8 comments

Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N

https://www.thedrive.com/news/replacing-brake-pads-on-a-hyundai-ioniq-5-n-requires-a-professional...
21•zdw•5h ago•5 comments

Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript

https://www.owl.is/blogg/blocking-crawlers-without-javascript/
122•todsacerdoti•9h ago•61 comments

Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust

https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
217•maxloh•1w ago•64 comments

AsciiMath

https://asciimath.org/
89•smartmic•11h ago•25 comments

When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/11/when-ups-charged-me-684-tariff-on-355.html
205•goldenskye•8h ago•166 comments

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance

https://elifesciences.org/articles/109427
142•nabla9•14h ago•80 comments

Writing a DOS Clone in 2019

https://medium.com/@andrewimm/writing-a-dos-clone-in-2019-70eac97ec3e1
5•shakna•1w ago•1 comments

Aunt Mary's Storybook

https://cjtinc.org/projects/amsb/
11•mooreds•1w ago•1 comments

Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares

https://unflipgame.com/
117•bogdanoff_2•4d ago•31 comments

Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729

https://borretti.me/article/linux-on-the-fujitsu-lifebook-u729
182•ibobev•17h ago•130 comments

Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering

https://pinetreelabs.github.io/archimedes/blog/2025/introduction.html
77•i_don_t_know•13h ago•11 comments

Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'

https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/14/tim-cook-step-down-as-apple-ceo-as-soon-as-next-year-report/
149•achow•11h ago•301 comments

TCP, the workhorse of the internet

https://cefboud.com/posts/tcp-deep-dive-internals/
307•signa11•1d ago•145 comments

Computing Across America (1983-1985)

https://microship.com/winnebiko/
21•austinallegro•1w ago•3 comments

JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/jvm-exceptions-are-weird-a-decompiler-perspective/
70•birdculture•1w ago•4 comments

Tangled Mess

https://www.subbu.org/articles/2025/tangled-mess/
12•gpi•5d ago•2 comments

Ubiquiti Flex Mini 2.5G Review Ubiquiti Does a Cheap 5-Port 2.5GbE Switch

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11•ksec•1h ago•0 comments

EyesOff: How I built a screen contact detection model

https://ym2132.github.io/building_EyesOff_part2_model_training
22•Two_hands•23h ago•6 comments

Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations

https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnels-injuries-osha-citations-fines-res...
269•Chinjut•13h ago•45 comments

The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee's early programming career (2017)

https://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2017/06/28/the-computer-poetry-of-j-m-coetzees-earl...
58•bluejay2•13h ago•10 comments

A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition

https://generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google-quietly-solved-two-of
532•scrlk•4d ago•294 comments

Why export templates would be useful in C++ (2010)

http://warp.povusers.org/programming/export_templates.html
13•PaulHoule•1w ago•1 comments

Mag Wealth (2024)

https://saul.pw/mag/wealth/
139•andsoitis•16h ago•159 comments
Open in hackernews

You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis

https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai
22•vijaymohan1979•6mo ago

Comments

yohannparis•6mo ago
No Pricing information nor an open-source project. I don't know what to do with this product.
jasonlotito•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
maxmcd•6mo 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•6mo ago
There’s also Polyscale as a service.
vijaymohan1979•6mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
vijaymohan1979•6mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
henning•6mo 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•6mo ago
> Yes, I realize the source is there

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

vijaymohan1979•6mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
hangonhn•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
solatic•6mo 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•6mo 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•6mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A