Hacker News: chadpaulson

New comment by chadpaulson in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

chadpaulson — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:56:42 +0000

Yeah, I agree after thinking about it. Connecting other social networks makes it difficult to distinguish Friendster as an intimate and honest platform free of spam.

The intimacy levels can be IRL (when you tap phones), Phone (when you friend via phone number) and Email (when you friend via email address). You could also measure the intimacy hierarchy / rank by keeping track of events (should events become a feature) you attend with other friends.

New comment by chadpaulson in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

chadpaulson — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:11:16 +0000

I agree. There should be a hierarchy of intimacy, as it were, in order to initiate a friendship.

* Tapping Phones * Confirming Phone Number * Confirming Email * Connected via Other Platforms (Facebook, Twitter, BlueSky, etc)

As far as maintaining a friendship by tapping phones, again, I would make the friendships a constant and graph / rank intimacy by how often you tap phones as well as how connected you are to your friend (phone, email, connections on other networks).

New comment by chadpaulson in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

chadpaulson — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:04:49 +0000

I love this framework, pun intended. I made a clone of Atari's Missile Command with it many years ago when the Portal / Mario mashup game made with LÖVE was popular. https://github.com/chadpaulson/missile-command

NASA Chief: "We Just Built Antigravity Propulsion " [video]

chadpaulson — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:29:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOWwdIuyaQA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596064

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by chadpaulson in "You don't have to if you don't want to"

chadpaulson — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:22:48 +0000

The market forces (the Jack Dorseys of the world) have made the decision for us. I have since attempted to embrace automatic programming / vibe coding and have seen interesting results. AI is a tool and we are living through the infancy of its evolution. I have concerns, not counting the current DoW drama with Anthropic and OpenAI. The next 5 years will significantly shape the direction of AI and how it is implemented in our workflows and every day lives. I'd rather involve myself and help shape its future instead of pretending it doesn't exist because I don't want to deal with it.

New comment by chadpaulson in "Warner Bros signs $110B deal with Paramount"

chadpaulson — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:48:37 +0000

RIP CNN.

New comment by chadpaulson in "Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'"

chadpaulson — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:31:30 +0000

I've heard good things about carbon steel. Particularly, nitrided carbon steel. The pans are treated to be non-stick and are safe. It's what Alton Brown, the host of Food Network's Good Eats who also just launched a new cooking show on YouTube, uses.

New comment by chadpaulson in "Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'"

chadpaulson — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:22:17 +0000

I use ceramic, but recently learned that nitrided carbon steel pans are the way to go. They are both useful AND safe. Do yourself a favor and invest in one.

New comment by chadpaulson in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

chadpaulson — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:29:19 +0000

https://chadpaulson.com

Old payphones get new life, thanks to Vermont engineer [video]

chadpaulson — Tue, 27 May 2025 00:41:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwXTUM2Y7L0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44102943

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by chadpaulson in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

chadpaulson — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 07:22:20 +0000

Merry Christmas!

New comment by chadpaulson in "X (Twitter) Job Board"

chadpaulson — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 03:32:04 +0000

I think so. Just did a few searches, pretty decent quality. I think it might be an aggregator.

New comment by chadpaulson in "A Laser Fusion Breakthrough Gets a Bigger Burst of Energy"

chadpaulson — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:35:13 +0000

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A Laser Fusion Breakthrough Gets a Bigger Burst of Energy

chadpaulson — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/25/science/nuclear-laser-fusion-nif.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37658321

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by chadpaulson in "Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?"

chadpaulson — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 21:02:42 +0000

The Python user base is perfectly fine. Of course, any additional package installed outside of Django and Wagtail can introduce security risks. Since Wagtail and all of its additional packages incorporates Django's security features, which includes protection against many common attack methods, it is a more secure offering.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/security/

Not to mention security through obscurity, Wagtail is a lot less common than Wordpress. Therefore, not as many attack vectors exist for Wagtail as they do for Django / Wagtail, especially if you keep on top of the security patches.

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2023/sep/04/security-re...

New comment by chadpaulson in "Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?"

chadpaulson — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 19:48:37 +0000

You had also mentioned you were looking to create a platform for invoicing. There are several Django apps that offer invoicing functionality. I do not have experience with any of them, but below is a good feature matrix which should allow you to drive decisions as you prototype and test them out.

https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/invoicing/

New comment by chadpaulson in "Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?"

chadpaulson — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 19:38:04 +0000

I have used both Django-CMS and Wagtail. Wagtail is much more user-friendly and extensible. You can create Wikis, Blogs and regular content pages with models and maintain it all through a friendly CMS interface that rivals Wordpress.

New comment by chadpaulson in "Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?"

chadpaulson — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 19:34:06 +0000

In my other reply I offer the suggestion of using Wagtail, a Django CMS used by Nasa and Google. It offers up much of the same features and user experience as Wordpress and is much more customizable and extendable.

https://wagtail.org/features/

New comment by chadpaulson in "Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?"

chadpaulson — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 19:15:18 +0000

Django has a CMS called Wagtail, which has some really nice features including custom content blocks which allow you to easily create unique looking pages.

Wagtail has over 15,000 stars on GitHub, is heavily supported and was created in 2014. It has since been adopted by organizations such as NASA, Google, and the National Health Service.

Below is a comparison between Wagtail and Wordpress.

https://wagtail.org/wagtail-vs-wordpress/

New comment by chadpaulson in "Noun Project – Icons for Everything"

chadpaulson — Sat, 13 May 2017 01:41:30 +0000

I always credit the artists, as well as the Noun Project itself, in cases like this. https://chadpaulson.github.io/react-cassette-player/