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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Monday March 31, 2025 @03:43AM (#43532261)
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/

It was not conservative at all! They invested short term deposits in long term bonds (MBS)
Re:The phones of Ukrainian president Zelensky on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @08:00AM (#30841412)
source?
Re:Photo captures space station crossing the moon on Monday March 14, 2022 @12:12PM (#30674211)
If anyone would like to buy the print: https://www.galleryastro.fr/-/galleries/auteurs/thierry-lega...

Just ordered one for my kids!

yup, it is allowed in Switzerland as well
Re:Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:07AM (#22555910)
Good news keeps on coming. Yikes.
Re:I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors on Monday July 03, 2017 @08:05AM (#14687634)
Mr pthread!
Re:Websites people say have changed their lives on Sunday April 23, 2017 @08:28AM (#14177902)
Re:Fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous? on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @12:01PM (#12598760)
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.
Re:Quintuple: a Python 5-qubit quantum computer simulator on Saturday July 16, 2016 @11:58AM (#12106739)
Christine is living the life, currently in Antarctica: https://twitter.com/corbett
Re:Announcing Google Research, Europe on Thursday June 16, 2016 @08:45AM (#11915694)
I think that Google went to Zurich because an early engineer was from there.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite online course? on Monday November 30, 2015 @01:41PM (#10650916)
I have done a lot of progress in German using Duolingo. Memrise helps with vocabulary too.
Re:Ask HN: What (side) projects are you working on? on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @10:20AM (#8562139)
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.

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
This is scary:

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

Re:Popcorn-app on Sunday March 16, 2014 @06:32PM (#7411702)
The app is terrific. Can't wait for a revision that includes all the popular tv shows.
Re:TrackR on Friday March 07, 2014 @06:18AM (#7359625)
But it's supposedly also very easy to detect whether you're being tracked or not, right? GSM+GPS seems a lot more stealthy.
Re:The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS on Monday February 24, 2014 @03:55PM (#7293373)
Wasn't Whisper Systems/Moxie bought by Twitter some time back?
Re:The French way of cancer treatment on Saturday February 15, 2014 @11:18AM (#7244174)
I am french, and I disagree.
Re:Show HN: A simple IP address API on Friday February 14, 2014 @01:02PM (#7239925)
freegeoip also has https support for free.

I use it for my bitcoin client: https://github.com/bit-c/bitc

Re:Bitcoin Ponzi scheme on Saturday February 08, 2014 @05:36PM (#7203128)
it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/IJJU14s.png
Re:Bitcoin Ponzi scheme on Saturday February 08, 2014 @05:29PM (#7203083)
shameless plug: my ncurses thin SPV bitcoin client for linux/mac:

https://github.com/bit-c/bitc

  * 100% C code,
  * support for linux and mac platforms,
  * console based: uses ncurses,
  * home grown async network i/o stack,
  * home grown poll loop,
  * home grown bitcoin engine,
  * supports encrypted wallet,
  * supports Tor/Socks5 proxy,
  * multi-threaded,
  * valgrind clean.
You'll need basic dev skills to install it: check-out the code, install dependencies then build. It's all in the README file. I'm interested in all kinds of feedback you may have: feature requests, bugs, etc. Thanks!
Re:Show HN: I made an ncurses SPV bitcoin client: bitc on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:29AM (#7184234)
It looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/IJJU14s.png

Show HN: I made an ncurses SPV bitcoin client: bitc

https://github.com/bit-c/bitcbitc is a thin SPV bitcoin client. * 100% C code, * support for linux and mac platforms, * console based: uses ncurses, * home grown async network i/o stack, * home grown poll loop, * home grown bitcoin engine, * supports encrypted wallet, * supports Tor/Socks5 proxy, * multi-threaded, * valgrind clean. You'll need basic dev skills to install it:...

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bitc: ncurses based SPV bitcoin client, 100% C code

https://github.com/bit-c/bitc

bitc is a thin SPV bitcoin client. * 100% C code, * support for linux and mac platforms, * console based: uses ncurses, * home grown async network i/o stack, * home grown poll loop, * home grown bitcoin engine, * supports encrypted wallet, * multi-threaded, * valgrind clean. WARNING: this app is under development and may contain critical bugs.

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Re:How to Start an Anonymous Blog on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @10:43AM (#7137683)
"The author of the 2008 Bitcoin whitepaper was identified through textual analysis of his writing."

wait, what?

Re:Termcoin – A Bitcoin wallet for your terminal on Saturday January 18, 2014 @12:07PM (#7081407)
Interesting, I've also developed a bitcoin client :) However, mine is completely independent of bitcoin-qt and is meant to be lightweight and snappy. It uses SPV. Here's a screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/pRLs1ps

Let me know if anyone is interested in taking a look.

From my README file:

bitc is a thin SPV bitcoin client.

  - 100% C code,
  - support for linux and mac platforms,
  - console based: uses ncurses,
  - home grown async network i/o stack,
  - home grown poll loop,
  - home grown bitcoin engine,
  - multi-threaded,
  - valgrind clean.
edit: indentation.
this looks like a good sign for the world economy. S&P 2000!
Re:Marie Curie: Why her papers are still radioactive on Sunday October 27, 2013 @07:03PM (#6624066)
please, Marie Curie.

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