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Don't Let the Grocery Store Scan Your Face: How to Stop Wegmans

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/07/dont-let-the-grocery-store-scan-your-face-a-guide-to-fightin...
52•ptorrone•1h ago•10 comments

Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/09/404081/sugar-papers-reveal-industry-role-shifting-national-hear...
653•aldarion•11h ago•390 comments

Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default

https://tailscale.com/changelog
210•traceroute66•5h ago•87 comments

Eat Real Food

https://realfood.gov
532•atestu•8h ago•838 comments

Play Aardwolf MUD

https://www.aardwolf.com/
43•caminanteblanco•2h ago•12 comments

Shipmap.org

https://www.shipmap.org/
466•surprisetalk•10h ago•77 comments

Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/notion-ai-unpatched-data-exfiltration
109•takira•6h ago•14 comments

Solo ASIC tapeout on a budget: detailed write up

https://old.reddit.com/r/chipdesign/comments/1q4kvxt/solo_asic_tapeout_on_a_budget_detailed_write...
20•random_duck•2d ago•3 comments

The Q, K, V Matrices

https://arpitbhayani.me/blogs/qkv-matrices/
32•yashsngh•17h ago•13 comments

NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens

https://socket.dev/blog/npm-to-implement-staged-publishing
128•feross•7h ago•25 comments

US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-will-ban-large-institutional-investors-buying-single-family-h...
593•kpw94•6h ago•639 comments

LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]

https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/graphics/pgf/contrib/coffeestains/coffeestains-en.pdf
280•zahrevsky•11h ago•66 comments

Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says

https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2026-01-06/health-care-data-breach-affects-600-000-patients-...
159•toomuchtodo•9h ago•54 comments

Musashi: Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C

https://github.com/kstenerud/Musashi
7•doener•1h ago•0 comments

LMArena is a cancer on AI

https://surgehq.ai/blog/lmarena-is-a-plague-on-ai
173•jumploops•21h ago•72 comments

We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-...
55•crescit_eundo•6d ago•6 comments

2026 Predictions Scorecard

https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2026-january-01/
32•calvinfo•4h ago•22 comments

Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE

https://github.com/reinauer/amifuse
73•doener•4d ago•30 comments

Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388
955•kevlened•9h ago•582 comments

The virtual AmigaOS runtime (a.k.a. Wine for Amiga:)

https://github.com/cnvogelg/amitools/blob/main/docs/vamos.md
4•doener•1h ago•1 comments

A4 Paper Stories

https://susam.net/a4-paper-stories.html
287•blenderob•12h ago•147 comments

What *is* code? (2015)

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/
117•bblcla•6d ago•47 comments

Michel Siffre’s self-experiments in a cave with no light (2018)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931900-400-this-man-spent-months-alone-underground-and-i...
40•Anon84•6d ago•5 comments

SSDs, power loss protection and fsync latency

http://smalldatum.blogspot.com/2026/01/ssds-power-loss-protection-and-fsync.html
33•ingve•4h ago•2 comments

Many hells of WebDAV

https://candid.dev/blog/many-hells-of-webdav
125•candiddevmike•10h ago•63 comments

ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/ice-going-surveillance-shopping-spree
161•BeetleB•2h ago•110 comments

Building voice agents with Nvidia open models

https://www.daily.co/blog/building-voice-agents-with-nvidia-open-models/
79•kwindla•9h ago•8 comments

ChatGPT Health

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/
160•saikatsg•6h ago•195 comments

My first paper: A practical implementation of Rubiks cube based passkeys

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11280260
24•acorn221•4h ago•13 comments

A glimpse into V8 development for RISC-V

https://riseproject.dev/2025/12/09/a-glimpse-into-v8-development-for-risc-v/
36•floitsch•21h ago•4 comments
Open in hackernews

You can now directly sync Postgres with Redis

https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai
22•vijaymohan1979•8mo ago

Comments

yohannparis•8mo ago
No Pricing information nor an open-source project. I don't know what to do with this product.
jasonlotito•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
maxmcd•8mo 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•8mo ago
There’s also Polyscale as a service.
vijaymohan1979•8mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
vijaymohan1979•8mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
henning•8mo 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•8mo ago
> Yes, I realize the source is there

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

vijaymohan1979•8mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
hangonhn•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A
solatic•8mo 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•8mo 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•8mo ago
https://github.com/redfly-ai-org/redfly.ai/wiki/Q-&-A