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Show HN: Is It Greg?

53 points by antoineleclair 3 hours ago | 19 comments

My friend Greg often posts incredible things he just made, just for fun.

Often, I don't realize that it's something HE made and then I see the URL, AND IT'S MY FRIEND, GREG!

A few things he made that I think are amazing:

- ikea complexity index: https://ikea.greg.technology/

- Boing: https://boing.greg.technology/

I want to make sure I don't miss anything from him, so I created this Chrome extension that flags things posted by Greg, or linking to his website or a subdomain.

I hope other people will install the extension and never miss anything Greg made.

gregsadetsky 3 hours ago

I’m obviously biased, but I’m also extremely grateful. Thank you!!!!

bkallus 57 minutes ago

I lent Greg a Minivac 601 for a week or so last month. He returned it in a big zippered bag, which I stole because it was pouring rain and I needed to bring the Minivac back to my car.

I was going to return it at the MIT swapfest in a week, but I think he can't make it anymore. Sorry Greg!

gregsadetsky 49 minutes ago

Well I'm even more 1000%%%%%% coming to the swapfest now!!!! My precious bag, haha.

Also, you are the most incredibly generous person for lending me that extraordinary piece of computing history!! I recorded its relay sounds and actual resistances. I truly cannot tell you how happy it made me.

Yes, even more greg stuff here, what the heck: https://minivac.greg.technology/

pokpokpok 2 hours ago

This is helpful but I'm worried about false negatives, are you working on more advanced greg detecting algorithms?

mtlynch 2 hours ago

I haven't seen Greg's stuff before, but I discovered Disco through this, and it looks neat:

https://disco.cloud/

proteusvacuum 2 hours ago

I didn't know I needed this, thank you!!! Also, hi Antoine!

antoineleclair 2 hours ago

Hi! HN is such a small world.

fcjr 3 hours ago

I do love seeing my friend greg here

gregsadetsky 2 hours ago

I was just talking about you in another thread!! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690457

lanewinfield 2 hours ago

i usually go to gcombinator for my greg updates

gregsadetsky 2 hours ago

obligatory link to our dear friend Guy's Guycombinator site!!!

https://www.guycombinator.net/

jason_pon 59 minutes ago

It's look interesting with his head icon

LoganDark 3 hours ago

This is awesome! The idea can be generalized too:

- Highlight comments from a customizable set of particular authors

- Highlight commenters that reply within their subthreads

But of course, that loses some of the charm of working just for Greg :)

hopelezz 2 hours ago

Was literally going to say this.

jryio 2 hours ago

Hi Greg it's you!

jmgrosen 2 hours ago

hope to get a greg collab on here sometime

tamimio 2 hours ago

Please don’t turn this into an e-celebrity twitter clone with all that circlejerking, it would be even better to remove the authors name, just whatever the content/comment is posted that matters, someone might like a post from an author but don’t like the other post, seeing the author might prevent proper criticism or add bias, an author-anonymous contents are the best.

peri-cl 52 minutes ago

If you want an author-anonymous HN (posts and comments both), it's a one-line uBlock Origin selector,

    ycombinator.com##a.hnuser

vladsiu 17 minutes ago

haha, nice tool