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gregsadetsky
9,927karma·1,664submissions·November 7, 2010
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hi@greg.technology
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Cofounder of a web mapping startup acquired by Apple.
Received awards from the US Coast Guard and the Governor General of Canada for creating a map that helped rescue 1,700 people during Hurricane Harvey.
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Currently refurbishing laptops with robots! https://www.reviserobotics.com/ (YC W25).
Also worked on Disco, an open source self-hosting software: https://disco.cloud/
See my talk about it at the Recurse Center: https://youtu.be/z2lP7C8VT6M
And this (slightly less chaotic) Devtools FM episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr3JJpbCRP0
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And even more stuff that's wildly out of date - https://greg.technology
recent activity (1,664 total)
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Yeah - these [0] kinds of cables are so extremely scary. "The O.MG Cable is a hand made USB cable with an advanced implant hidden inside. It is designed to allow your Red Team to emulate attack s…
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0 shade (hehe), the project is extraordinary as it is! cheers
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As far as I can see, OP tried to implement water shaders but then abandoned this idea.
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amazing work! gemini 3.5 pro reverse engineered it - if you use the code at the following gist, you can jump to any specific lat lng :-) https://gist.github.com/gregsadetsky/c4c1a…
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Great work, thanks for sharing and congrats on the launch! Very very small note - many clickable things on your site (the "explore" and "new task" buttons, the directory and blog l…
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Those are dreamy! But also, Japan has incredible density. I was imagining a no-support, pure esim play. I mean. Even calling it brainstorming is an exaggeration haha
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Unfortunately their plan is an IoT plan “Not Intended for Phones or Tablets” [0] That’s exactly the issue - it’s a great plan, it’s just contractually stopped from being offered because a lot of peopl…
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Yes, it's a step in the right direction. However it is opt-in aka "Launch a page in minutes and showcase Sponsors buttons on your GitHub profile and repositories". That's effort &a…
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My apologies - you’re correct. I didn’t mean that as “you should never expect anyone to have contributed code for free/the pleasure/for the puzzle solving aspect”. I do it all of the time. I…
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Sorry yes - I think it does. Starlink sats can already offer 5G service directly to mobile phones (from the sky!!) And there are other comments here talking about this specifically - how unlimited ban…
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I had a “hit” post on bsky [0] (90 likes, big numbers for me) asking whether people would want an unlimited mobile plan throttled at 256kbps for $2/month. Seems like yes? There’s lots to say abou…
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If you’re confident that you can reverse it, happy to throw $50 at this. It would be extremely great if you did this. Anybody else want to crowdfund? :) P.s. if you end up absolutely bricking it, but …
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One great example/case for this would be Aura Frames (recommended to me by a few folks here when I posted an Ask HN) [0] If the company disappears... what happens to the devices and the cloud sto…
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This had been an open issue since ~2022: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37117 Lots of discussion and "this will never get fixed" comments (incl…
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Embroidery! I'd love to develop an art/tech practice and make custom embroidery pieces, maybe even daily - ie make up some words for a new t-shirt or hat every day? Speaking of, I also learn…
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Speaking of, are there resources for people who type fast but want to get competitive, ie into the top 20 on typeracer for example? Beyond "just" practicing. Any suggestions would be appreci…
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in addition to making a map, it would also be a fascinating timeline: you could show venues (as they appear/disappear through time) and artists, and filter/search those imagine seeing listin…
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Also see this related blog post - https://minireference.com/blog/noBSstats-prerelease/ …
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I think that a better link (even though it lacks the context) is this new archive (which is mostly good as it lets you quickly see all cover pages) - https://www.newyorker.com/archive …
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Don't stop yourself before getting started. I believe in you - maybe you could write the one editor that would actually work! Not kidding - it's a ~~~billion dollar market haha Make an MVP&#…