Hacker News: RyJones

New comment by RyJones in "US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut"

RyJones — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:51:25 +0000

I've told this story so many times I've worn the corners off it. BT was giving a presentation to MSN WAN OPS about the new datacenter buildout in London for us. They kept going on and on about physical security, man traps, and that our fiber left the building on each side and didn't get close to each other for so many km away.

BT guy ends that part of the presentation with "the IRA will really have to get shit together to take you off the net"

This was during the troubles. Same planet, different world.

New comment by RyJones in "Eating Fruit Skins"

RyJones — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:13:18 +0000

I eat the whole orange, grapefruit, lemon or lime.

I like the bitter to offset the sweetness.

New comment by RyJones in "Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI"

RyJones — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:57:57 +0000

Walk around your neighborhood and see who has security cameras.

Security camera through PVS14 https://youtu.be/gEWniEhtE2k

New comment by RyJones in "Yen weakens past ¥160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains"

RyJones — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:03:06 +0000

I did something similar for a US tourist who was making me ashamed of being a US tourist. Got on a boat tour, bar is cash only, he only has dollars. I traded him something like $100 worth of yen, I told him the exchange rate, and that he was paying above it. He didn't care, he just wanted to buy some drinks

New comment by RyJones in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

RyJones — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:04:19 +0000

I agree; however, here is my vibe-coded home ALPRS:

https://github.com/ryjones/alprs

Using more vibe code:

https://github.com/ryjones/platescan

The bar is low.

New comment by RyJones in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

RyJones — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:20:22 +0000

This is the feature I’ve missed most from Gerrit. Thank you

New comment by RyJones in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

RyJones — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:26:05 +0000

buy any dongle that sells for under $100 on amazon. they all have the same mac, and come with 'bespoke' apps to let you do things to your car. those apps are all thin wrappers on code widely shared; they use the MAC of the dongle as the keystone for ID.

Short story: buy one cheap dongle on Amazon, dump the MAC (00:11:22:AA:BB:CC IIRC; it's been 15 years since I cared) and you have auth to all of the apps everywhere.

Reminder: the Bluetooth logo comes, mostly, from self-certification.

New comment by RyJones in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

RyJones — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:22:15 +0000

When I cared, I found out that a lot of OBD-II dongles shipped with the same MAC, which gave you access to everything on a bunch of websites.

You can curse the storm, but the wind will come.

New comment by RyJones in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

RyJones — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:55:04 +0000

Howdy! maybe? I was off and on at WMHD as a reprobate from a local high school. I never had the GPA to get in to Rose Hulman; even as a local.

New comment by RyJones in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

RyJones — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:51:57 +0000

Jim Grey and I knew all the same people at WMHD yet somehow never ran into each other. I was an annoying high school student. Ron Dippold (he ran usenet votes for a long time) was there, among others.

When I was digging through old VHS tapes, I digitized a couple TV spots and put them on youtube; passing them along to Jim.

Best advice I got when I got to San Jose was from an old recruiter - she must have been 30!

She said the Bay Area is big, but the Silicon Valley is small.

I think about her advice a lot.

The radio world is even smaller. I tried out at WZZQ when I was in high school, but didn't make the cut.

New comment by RyJones in "QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall"

RyJones — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:28:50 +0000

Something like this: https://youtu.be/YZkLQsv3huo

New comment by RyJones in "QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall"

RyJones — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:43:17 +0000

if I put two of these far-ish apart, can I get better 3d/4d data?

New comment by RyJones in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

RyJones — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:11:57 +0000

On the tech side, we are working closely with (for instance) Google: https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/multipaz-wallet

SPRIND: https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/eudiplo

Animo: https://github.com/openwallet-foundation-labs/mdoc-ts

and we do engage with NGOs and governments across the EU.

New comment by RyJones in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

RyJones — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:45:50 +0000

help us help EU residents:

https://openwallet.foundation/

https://github.com/openwallet-foundation

https://github.com/openwallet-foundation-labs

New comment by RyJones in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

RyJones — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:02:30 +0000

Keep in mind that while I am employed by the Linux Foundation, I know nothing of the internals of this project; I will speak, instead, of what the projects I support do.

I have found (c) to be high noise, low signal. We're winding down our HackerOne program.

D: we do this in a couple ways. For PQCA, for instance, we use credits from AWS to get access to hardware to run proofs and CI on. PQCA also has a paid mentorship program.

For OWF, we do the same with AWS credits, as well as provide hosting for projects to run services on for testing.

For LFDT, we offer paid mentorships, have paid for Trail of Bits to do reviews, and run events. We had a maintainer summit in New York in January so our maintainers could meet for two days face-to-face. We fund large GitHub CI runners for projects as well.

I know it doesn't answer everything, but our team is only a few people and we really do work hard to help developers. What I'll call the devrel team for OWF/PQCA/LFDT is three FTE, one contractor, and our manager.

LFDT: https://www.lfdecentralizedtrust.org/

OWF: https://openwallet.foundation/

PQCA: https://pqca.org/

PQCA benchmarks, for instance: https://pq-code-package.github.io/mldsa-native/dev/bench/

New comment by RyJones in "A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison"

RyJones — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:44:41 +0000

I enjoyed supporting you in the AllJoyn/AllSeen Alliance era. Sadly, those lessons were never learned.

New comment by RyJones in "Telescope Ranchers"

RyJones — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:14:58 +0000

mostly unrelated, but over the last few weeks I've gone down a rabbit hole having claude write scripts to label videos I shoot through night vision.

If you want to see my progress (mostly gated by the sky): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOgT48pM4GctL_nuv37vc...

I want to get it pointing out overflights and satellites by name, but I'm not there yet.

New comment by RyJones in "Why I Email Complete Strangers"

RyJones — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:31:20 +0000

I emailed Lenstra about some ancient history, we had a nice chat.

RSA129 - I have a color copy of the prize check. I asked how many he sent out.

Show HN: A static SPA to query ATF / BATFE historic AFMER data

RyJones — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:23:12 +0000

I guided Claude to write an SPA to make the BATFE Annual Firearms Manufacturers And Export Report (AFMER) data easier to explore.

I have the raw data in https://github.com/ryjones/AFMER . I've been collecting the raw data since 2005 or 2006 as it became available.

I started grabbing the data years ago to interrogate claims firearms manufacturers were making in public about sales volumes against the data the BATFE publishes.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459608

Points: 2

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New comment by RyJones in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

RyJones — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:13:56 +0000

Help us spread the word? We have good engagement but we need more from governments.

https://openwallet.foundation/