Hacker News: paxpelus

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

paxpelus — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:15:55 +0000

I am working with a colleague of mine on Handout Generator (https://handouts.cthulhuarchitect.com) which is a website you can use to create fake documents and handouts to be used in different TTRPG, especially investigative ones like Call of Cthulhu.

It is going pretty well, already 17k users signed up. There are many people using it daily which give me the motivation to continue working on this.

I just wish I had more time to spend on this instead of the boring CRUD app I work on for living.

New comment by paxpelus in "Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace"

paxpelus — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:56:11 +0000

I've been using zoho. It just gets out of the way, but I mostly use email clients and their web interface rarely, but it seems good enough. And their prices are much lower than competitors.

New comment by paxpelus in "Pando, the world’s largest organism, has stopped growing"

paxpelus — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 06:48:57 +0000

From Ancient Greek πάνδημος (pándēmos, “of or belonging to all the people, public”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). πάνδημος is derived from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all, every’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European peh₂- (“to protect, shepherd”)) + δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people; free citizens, sovereign people”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European deh₂- (“to divide, share”)).

New comment by paxpelus in "Ask HN: What one app can I use to manage all the IoT devices in my home?"

paxpelus — Tue, 12 May 2020 07:35:54 +0000

I am using node-red to control some lamps e.g. when it is getting dark and my phone is around (check bluetooth connection) then turn on the living room lamp.

You can do so many automations by using nodejs in the nodes.You can check it out here https://nodered.org/

New comment by paxpelus in "Ask HN: Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?"

paxpelus — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:45:33 +0000

I hate messing with nginx and ssl configurations that why I tried caprover (https://caprover.com/) on a vultr server. It handles ssl through let's encrypt and it even includes some nice monitoring tool. It needs some familiarity with docker if you want to fully use its features but in general I am running it on 2 servers with success and I am very happy. I totally recommend it.

New comment by paxpelus in "Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)"

paxpelus — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:56:59 +0000

I almost never use an alarm to wake up. Whenever I use an alarm I wake up 5-10 minutes earlier and I wonder if the alarm went off or not. I consider this some kind of anxiety because usually I use an alarm to e.g. catch a flight

New comment by paxpelus in "Show HN: A free and open-source budgeting app you can self-host"

paxpelus — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 14:06:28 +0000

This seems really cool but as I am not a rails developer it seems that I don't know how to even install it on a server of mine. It would help if you could provide installation instructions.

New comment by paxpelus in "Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?"

paxpelus — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:22:48 +0000

I am a blockchain developer. I would be interested to hear more. My email is on my profile

New comment by paxpelus in "Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?"

paxpelus — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 05:13:03 +0000

If you are interested in blockchain and algorithmic trading I would love to connect. My email is on my profile

New comment by paxpelus in "Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?"

paxpelus — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 05:03:23 +0000

I am really interested in blockchain and I have already built a side project earning some ether through trading. I want to dive deeper into algorithmic trading. Looking for someone with trading experience to collaborate in order to build a public or private product.

My email is on my profile

New comment by paxpelus in "Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?"

paxpelus — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 04:57:49 +0000

I am interested in blockchain in general and would like to connect. My email is on my profile

New comment by paxpelus in "Programming: Doing it more vs. doing it better"

paxpelus — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 11:52:36 +0000

I have worked many times on ugly and on beautiful code. What I consider ugly is not always ugly for other developers and the other way around.

New comment by paxpelus in "Ask HN: Which dev laptop to buy?"

paxpelus — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 05:02:53 +0000

I bought recently a 3rd generation lenovo x1 carbon from ebay and I am really happy with all the mobility provided. The battery lasts for more than 6-7 hours, it weighs around 1.2kg and the keyboard is perfect. The 14 inch monitor is more than enough. I switched from a 17 inch Dell and I am not missing it at all. I bought this for 500 euros including shipping.

New comment by paxpelus in "Ask HN: Remote developers with a spouse/kids, where do you live?"

paxpelus — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:22:43 +0000

I also work remote from a small northern Greece town and I would also totally recommend Crete. It is an island but it is pretty big and the weather is the best you can get in Greece. If you enjoy crowded places then you should look on Thessaloniki that has 1 million population and has the best night life in my opinion. There are also often flights to other parts of Greece and decent connection to most European cities. Also Chalkidiki is like 1 hour away by car and you can get the best beaches in Greece.

New comment by paxpelus in "Show HN: Nekøyume – Blockchain-based Role-Playing Game"

paxpelus — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 13:34:11 +0000

Seriously, why does it ask for my private key when I access the page from mobile? I instantly closed the page.

New comment by paxpelus in "Arbing the great bull run of 2017"

paxpelus — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 06:34:34 +0000

Can you elaborate?

New comment by paxpelus in "The cryptocurrency bubble is strangling innovation?"

paxpelus — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:54:54 +0000

Open orders are actually transactions that have been made to the smart contract. It is possible to monitor the smart contract and get informed on all the open orders.

You may want to have a look on Etherdelta API if you don't want to use directly the smart contract. https://github.com/etherdelta/etherdelta.github.io/blob/mast...

New comment by paxpelus in "The cryptocurrency bubble is strangling innovation?"

paxpelus — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:53:27 +0000

I have been informed by Lann - a member of HN that md5 has security issues. You can find more information here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#Security

I just updated EtherDelta Guard to version 1.1.149 that switches from md5 to sha256 which is secure.

This is why I love HN, people are really helpful and get straight to the point without any fuss.

New comment by paxpelus in "The cryptocurrency bubble is strangling innovation?"

paxpelus — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:47:38 +0000

You may want to have a look on Etherdelta Guard Chrome Extension (FYI: I built it). I open sourced it https://github.com/paxpelus/etherdelta-guard and you can download the plugin here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/etherdelta/beeeoaa...

When etherdelta deploys - they call a script of mine that calculates the md5 of their files in github and creates automatically a new version in Chrome Web Store.

I use my plugin whenever I visit etherdelta so I can be sure that their deployed version matches the one on github.com

New comment by paxpelus in "Bitcoin is a bubble, no plans to short-sell: Japan Post Bank CIO"

paxpelus — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 07:17:26 +0000

If you walk down the street you will see literally hundreds of people owning it as an asset. BTW - it even has a high degree of utility as an asset because it cannot be tampered or destroyed. Also - it has some real life uses (Everledger, MiVote etc.) And yes, it's highly speculative. Imagine the first people using gold as a currency - crazy right?