Hacker News: fnsa

New comment by fnsa in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

fnsa — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:43:19 +0000

A GNSS receiver written in Rust. It takes as input IQ data from an rtl-sdr device (or equivalent). It decodes the GPS L1 C/A signal, but I hope to augment it so that it handles Galileo and the other constellations.

It's still a work in progres: https://github.com/mx4/gnss-rcv/

New comment by fnsa in "Startups that use Silicon Valley Bank are freaking out over payroll"

fnsa — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 15:44:52 +0000

It was not conservative at all! They invested short term deposits in long term bonds (MBS)

New comment by fnsa in "The phones of Ukrainian president Zelensky"

fnsa — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 12:00:49 +0000

source?

New comment by fnsa in "Photo captures space station crossing the moon"

fnsa — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:12:59 +0000

If anyone would like to buy the print: https://www.galleryastro.fr/-/galleries/auteurs/thierry-lega...

Just ordered one for my kids!

New comment by fnsa in "Swiss companies must pay share of rent for employees working from home"

fnsa — Mon, 25 May 2020 13:08:50 +0000

yup, it is allowed in Switzerland as well

New comment by fnsa in "Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating"

fnsa — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:07:50 +0000

Good news keeps on coming. Yikes.

New comment by fnsa in "I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors"

fnsa — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 12:05:42 +0000

Mr pthread!

New comment by fnsa in "Websites people say have changed their lives"

fnsa — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 12:28:35 +0000

another good one: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com

New comment by fnsa in "Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous?"

fnsa — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:01:09 +0000

I did a keto diet for a few months 3 years back and one of the things that I noticed very quickly was the reduced need for sleep. I slept at least an hour less every night and I felt great. Apparently it's due to a reduced production of melatonin.

New comment by fnsa in "Quintuple: a Python 5-qubit quantum computer simulator"

fnsa — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:58:19 +0000

Christine is living the life, currently in Antarctica: https://twitter.com/corbett

New comment by fnsa in "Announcing Google Research, Europe"

fnsa — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 12:45:12 +0000

I think that Google went to Zurich because an early engineer was from there.

New comment by fnsa in "Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?"

fnsa — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 18:41:25 +0000

I have done a lot of progress in German using Duolingo. Memrise helps with vocabulary too.

New comment by fnsa in "Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on?"

fnsa — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:20:26 +0000

A lightweight (SPV) bitcoin client. mac/linux/bsd.

https://github.com/bit-c/bitc http://imgur.com/pRLs1ps

Just beginning an ios app based on that, a block browser.

New comment by fnsa in "Hijacking user sessions with the Heartbleed vulnerability"

fnsa — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:09:29 +0000

yup it seems to have been patched soon after I posted, however quite a few from here are still vulnerable:

  https://github.com/musalbas/heartbleed-masstest/blob/master/top1000.txt

New comment by fnsa in "Hijacking user sessions with the Heartbleed vulnerability"

fnsa — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:11:36 +0000

This is scary:

  # ./hb-test.py mail.yahoo.com |grep -A3 -B3 pass

New comment by fnsa in "Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?"

fnsa — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:09:40 +0000

A theory is that the cargo area of the plane contained valuable goods: gold, silver, diamonds, etc and that's what the hijackers were after.

From this: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-15/missing-malaysian-f...

the 777 can have up to 25 tons worth of cargo payload.

25 tons of gold is worth ~ $1B, that's quite a bit more than the value of the plane itself.

New comment by fnsa in "Popcorn-app"

fnsa — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 22:32:22 +0000

The app is terrific. Can't wait for a revision that includes all the popular tv shows.

New comment by fnsa in "TrackR"

fnsa — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 11:18:19 +0000

But it's supposedly also very easy to detect whether you're being tracked or not, right? GSM+GPS seems a lot more stealthy.

New comment by fnsa in "The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS"

fnsa — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:55:35 +0000

Wasn't Whisper Systems/Moxie bought by Twitter some time back?

New comment by fnsa in "The French way of cancer treatment"

fnsa — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:18:44 +0000

I am french, and I disagree.