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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8
1068•mfiguiere•8h ago•451 comments

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/
342•tmp10423288442•9h ago•93 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
1024•Philpax•19h ago•514 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/
272•pizzaiolo•10h ago•94 comments

Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat
570•nderjung•15h ago•100 comments

Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022/nhess-22-3765-2022.html
167•totetsu•10h ago•84 comments

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive
575•GrumpySciGuy•7h ago•360 comments

U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23
500•sss111•15h ago•729 comments

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/
403•Velocifyer•15h ago•177 comments

Stripe acquires Clerky

https://www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe
171•zakshay•12h ago•27 comments

Laion Big Video Dataset

https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/
60•ks2048•7h ago•16 comments

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/
436•motownphilly•19h ago•256 comments

Zohran and the Short Link

https://iamwillwang.com/notes/zohran-and-the-short-link/
193•wxw•9h ago•70 comments

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/
259•amrrs•14h ago•329 comments

CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

https://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-ve...
274•gedankenstuecke•15h ago•61 comments

Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com
414•GavinAnderegg•18h ago•157 comments

The Harness Is the Thing

https://scott-fryxell.github.io/blog/the-harness-is-the-thing/
113•sfryxell•16h ago•38 comments

FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-class-targeted-therapy-met...
214•leopoldj•16h ago•49 comments

IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-24-ibm-unveils-next-generation-dual-architecture-processor-for-i...
126•porridgeraisin•12h ago•90 comments

Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228
128•matt_d•12h ago•19 comments

Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)

https://www.actinideinc.com/press/actinide-becomes-first-startup-to-ever-enrich-natural-uranium-t...
161•dsalzman•13h ago•79 comments

Kusama Yayoi has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/arts/yayoi-kusama-dead.html
169•phantomathkg•6h ago•13 comments

The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make
242•LVB•17h ago•224 comments

Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

https://acceptmarkdown.com/
134•tilt•13h ago•76 comments

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/
274•speckx•18h ago•189 comments

AWS Acquires DuckLabs

https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws
1048•onderkalaci•20h ago•304 comments

Tim Curry has died

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-leg...
657•mykowebhn•17h ago•208 comments

Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies

https://www.risklytics.ai/
52•AlexRisio•17h ago•20 comments

It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/using-obsidian-with-ai/
219•zazuke•17h ago•121 comments

Getting video models to learn better, faster

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/data-filtering-gen-video
26•schopra909•7h ago•9 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