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restoredrill restores your Postgres backup into a temporary container and writes down that it worked

restoredrill fetches your latest PostgreSQL backup, restores it into a disposable container, runs checks you define, and writes a JSON report with a real timestamp and the restore time. MIT, written in Go.

Source: Hacker NewsInfrastructure

GitHub

RealDiff runs your tests on both sides of a pull request and compares what the code actually did

RealDiff builds both branches with runtime instrumentation, runs the same test suite on each, records every method call's arguments and return values, and diffs the two traces instead of reading the source diff.

Source: Hacker NewsDev tools

GitHub

IndexFlow is search indexing infrastructure as Rust crates you run yourself

Sitemap processing, technical validation, IndexNow submission and multi-site scheduling, published as Rust crates under MIT or Apache 2.0 with a rolling quota circuit breaker.

Source: Hacker NewsOpen source

GitHub

oMLX writes the KV cache to SSD, so a coding agent on a Mac stops recomputing the whole context

A local inference server for Apple Silicon that persists KV cache blocks across an in-memory tier and an SSD tier, so a shifting prompt prefix does not force a full recomputation. 21,152 stars, Apache 2.0.

Source: Product HuntInfrastructure

GitHub

Superagent gives every chat its own git checkout, and lets the agent control a browser you can watch

A macOS desktop app for Claude Code where every conversation gets a private branch and checkout, the agent controls a visible browser using your own logins, and an iOS Simulator streams into the window.

Source: Product HuntDev tools

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