Show HN: Is It Greg? (github.com)

49 points by antoineleclair 2 hours ago

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.

bkallus 20 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 12 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/

gregsadetsky 2 hours ago

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

pokpokpok 37 minutes ago

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

mtlynch 27 minutes ago

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

https://disco.cloud/

proteusvacuum an hour ago

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

antoineleclair an hour ago

Hi! HN is such a small world.

jason_pon 21 minutes ago

It's look interesting with his head icon

lanewinfield an hour ago

i usually go to gcombinator for my greg updates

gregsadetsky an hour ago

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

https://www.guycombinator.net/

fcjr 2 hours ago

I do love seeing my friend greg here

gregsadetsky an hour ago

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

LoganDark 2 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 an hour ago

Was literally going to say this.

jmgrosen 29 minutes ago

hope to get a greg collab on here sometime

jryio an hour ago

Hi Greg it's you!

tamimio 43 minutes 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 15 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