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507 Mechanical Movements

https://507movements.com/
107•helloplanets•1h ago•14 comments

Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck

https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/
252•robotswantdata•4h ago•103 comments

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8
1614•mfiguiere•14h ago•747 comments

Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode

https://rahuljuliato.com/posts/markdown-ts-mode-emacs-31
68•RahulMJ•2h ago•21 comments

Launching Route 53 Files

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-08-27-Launching-Route-53-Files.html
27•louis-paul•1h ago•10 comments

CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem – CoMaps

https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-08-23/comaps-integration-with-the-wider-floss-ecosystem/
70•janandonly•2h ago•6 comments

Software engineering is about managing complexity

https://hack8s.com/422/once-again-software-engineering-is-about-managing-complexity
29•justorius•1h ago•18 comments

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
43•pbui•2h ago•27 comments

Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots

2•Salem_robotics•8m ago•0 comments

Trade (and Tariffs)

https://xkcd.com/3290/
176•throw0101d•2h ago•57 comments

Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

https://github.com/ahmadpiran/restoredrill
14•ahmadpiran•1h ago•6 comments

French CII's Mitra-15 in SIMH. Work in Progress

https://github.com/JPLeRouzic/Mitra-15-for-SIMH
10•JPLeRouzic•1h ago•1 comments

The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall

https://www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser-period-why-the-ai-boom
7•gtzi•1h ago•1 comments

Adentris (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adentris/jobs/ZpMXZ0C-founding-engineer-ai-rcm-healthcare-p...
1•SergeyYudovskiy•3h ago

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/
485•tmp10423288442•15h ago•149 comments

Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages)

https://github.com/issacnitin/RealDiff
25•issacnitin•2h ago•4 comments

Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in 'Transformers,' Dies at 85

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/peter-cullen-optimus-prime-transformers-eeyor...
30•cocacola1•52m ago•2 comments

Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS

336•leumon•5h ago•187 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/
369•pizzaiolo•17h ago•194 comments

Harness Engineering

https://Habitat-Thinking.github.io/ai-literacy-superpowers/plugins/ai-literacy-superpowers/explan...
80•tomrod•1h ago•37 comments

Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

https://louisabraham.github.io/load-bearing/
65•Labo333•6h ago•14 comments

Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know

https://www.accessnow.org/apple-threat-notifications-and-spyware/
18•ricobecks•2h ago•3 comments

Confdiff – semantic diff for config files (JSON/YAML/TOML) that redacts secrets

https://github.com/esperanza-volkov/confdiff
14•esperanzavolkov•2h ago•3 comments

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

https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive
850•GrumpySciGuy•14h ago•583 comments

Stripe acquires Clerky

https://www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe
235•zakshay•18h ago•54 comments

US Government Designates Host of Noblogs.org a "Global Terrorist"

https://crimethinc.com/2026/08/27/us-government-designates-host-of-noblogsorg-a-global-terrorist
142•robtherobber•2h ago•53 comments

Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively with Agents

https://blog.exe.dev/engineering-with-ai
47•bryanmikaelian•1h ago•50 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
256•totetsu•17h ago•181 comments

Did Meta's Big Settlement Actually Help It?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/business/dealbook/meta-settlement-teens.html
36•thm•2h ago•30 comments

The Harness Is the Thing

https://scott-fryxell.github.io/blog/the-harness-is-the-thing/
186•sfryxell•22h ago•104 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

https://github.com/ahmadpiran/restoredrill
14•ahmadpiran•1h ago

Comments

davedx•1h ago
This is a great idea. Anything that makes this easier is a win for ops teams.
sebmellen•1h ago
> There are other tools in this space. Worth naming plainly instead of pretending they don't exist.

Why do LLMs like this kind of writing? Why did you need to “plainly” name the competition as opposed to “flamboyantly” naming them?

This is a cool idea but the README is absurdly not-to-the-point.

ahmadpiran•58m ago
Fair, you're right. Thanks for the point. I used ai for a chunk of the build and writing. However, the actual work behind it wasn't AI-generated. I spent a few weeks interviewing people in r/devops and some compliance subs about how they actually test backup restores, and the report schema especially came out directly out of those conversations. You are also right about the REAME. I'll tighten it up right now, and enhance it. Thank you for the feedback.
progbits•47m ago
What bothers me personally the most is trying to hide it. Why did you remove Claude's (or whatever you used, but looks like opus to me from the style) co-author info?

I'm willing to use (semi-)vibecoded projects under certain circumstances, but I like to know up front what I'm getting. The github contributors list makes that easy to see as long as people don't try to hide it.

ahmadpiran•20m ago
I don't have a good defense here, it's fair. But part of that was because of messy commit history and I wanted to have a clean commit history. Maybe it's not a good reason as well, but it was my real intention and my desire of perfectionism :) reason is that I wanted to take the full control, when ai do the commits you normally don't check the code and you loose the control, well I think it's the most important thing. But Going forward, for building trust, definitely take your recommendation. The actual design, the report schema especially, came out of around 30 interviews with people who handle backup testing as part of their job. Thank you for the feedback.
lbrito•20m ago
This is a great idea and something I've faced and had to implement manually in the past.

The most common scenario for me was: I implement backup, done by a daily cron calling pg_dump. It worked and I moved on, until one day I needed to restore and the backups did not work. Typically at some point the VM failed to run the commands to clear temporary backup files, the disk would fill up and the new backups would be truncated mid way.

psql is pretty awful at identifying this which must be a very common scenario. Instead of a header check leading to "Corrupted backup, aborting" or something, it simply executes the SQL commands until it reaches the very last line, which will be truncated midway and thus invalid SQL.

Anyway, it took some time to figure out, but later I did basically what your tool does, probably simpler: another daily cron job that downloads the file and checks if it ends with the correct pg_dump success signature. It has worked so far.