Hacker News: RyJones

New comment by RyJones in "Is BGP safe yet?"

RyJones — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:50:07 +0000

T-Mobile consists of at least five distinct networks depending on when your carrier was purchased, last time I was talking with some of the network security guys in Factoria. It’s been four years - they may have converged some of them.

New comment by RyJones in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

RyJones — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:24:07 +0000

I preordered one, I got it, and I sold it. They are active on Discord. Why did I sell it? The shortcomings of the platform made me realize I should just go with UI, despite my reservations about the company.

New comment by RyJones in "Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds"

RyJones — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:29:20 +0000

when I worked there, I described it as a navy of lawyers with a dinghy of engineers.

New comment by RyJones in "Inferring car movement patterns from passive TPMS measurements"

RyJones — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:19:27 +0000

If you capture cellular control frequencies you get msisdns for free.

New comment by RyJones in "Inferring car movement patterns from passive TPMS measurements"

RyJones — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:51:46 +0000

I built a demo of this back when I worked at Qualcomm in Seattle; match this with WiFi beacons and you can trace a person fairly well. It's been over a decade, but at the time both iOS and Android would send pings fairly frequently to all known WiFi networks looking to see if they should switch to a faster one. With your device ID, list of SSIDs you know, and your TPMS data, a person can learn a lot about you.

Like, where do you work? Where do you stay (Hotel SSIDs)? Who are your friends (other people's home SSIDs)?

New comment by RyJones in "Monkey Patching in VBA"

RyJones — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:18:43 +0000

VBA is an interesting language. The builtins are huge - C++ may never have a loan amortization primitive, but VBA sure did/does

New comment by RyJones in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

RyJones — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:03:59 +0000

Reminds me of Qualcomm

New comment by RyJones in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

RyJones — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:17:04 +0000

Why is it that almost all ODB-II dongles you buy have the same MAC address? If you buy two, one for each car, your app can never tell which car you're connected to.

They all come with Bluetooth certified logos, as well.

The ones that don't reuse everything cost like $120, not $15.

New comment by RyJones in "Scott Adams has died"

RyJones — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:21:39 +0000

here you go.

https://blog.ryjones.org/adams

New comment by RyJones in "Scott Adams has died"

RyJones — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:46:47 +0000

One of my emails to Scott ended up in his first book; I was the one who emailed about carrying ice.

Fair winds and following seas, Scott.

New comment by RyJones in "Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite"

RyJones — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:12:25 +0000

Neat. I keep wanting to build something like this for GitHub audit logs, but at ~5 tb, probably a little much

New comment by RyJones in "Unifi Travel Router"

RyJones — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:24:45 +0000

I carry my GL.iNet GL-E750V2 all over the world.

New comment by RyJones in "Thin desires are eating life"

RyJones — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:05:34 +0000

One my convoys from Tallinn to Kyiv, I make little dog tags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYSqxFiEeps and coins to hand out to drivers and staff. For work, I used to make poker chips: https://github.com/ryjones/recognition/blob/main/chips.md and coins: https://github.com/ryjones/recognition/blob/main/coins.md . When we did coins, I would custom engrave them for TSC/TOC/TAC members and people in the community I knew I would meet at events. https://youtu.be/0LXsauB5Qao

See also gift boxes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21uGljlJVoI

New comment by RyJones in "Thin desires are eating life"

RyJones — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:54:02 +0000

I send postcards when I travel. I love doing it.

https://findingfavorites.podbean.com/e/ry-jones-postcards/

New comment by RyJones in "Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI"

RyJones — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:08:10 +0000

The correction I expect to give to an intern, not a junior person.

New comment by RyJones in "How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?"

RyJones — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:09:05 +0000

sd was a light customization of p4

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180122-00/?p=97...

New comment by RyJones in "Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays"

RyJones — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 03:40:21 +0000

It’s been a while since I grabbed this: https://blog.ryjones.org/2006/10/21/Welcome-to-the-Bay-Area

New comment by RyJones in "The Death of Arduino?"

RyJones — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:45:25 +0000

Correct

New comment by RyJones in "The Death of Arduino?"

RyJones — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:43:16 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_support_package

New comment by RyJones in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

RyJones — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:51:06 +0000

I've been to Kyiv five times to deliver aid via help99.co, and I've spent many, many hours with Europeans driving trucks from Tallinn to Kyiv.

The people volunteering and driving know Europe is at war. They all say nobody else where they live realizes this.

It's frustrating.