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Greg Raiz

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Greg Raiz's personal blog at gregraiz.com covers career and programming. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “I made an eInk newspaper”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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16mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post about building an eInk newspaper frame from a Visionect Place & Play display, with a video and code. The one comment cites it as a source for the project.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Greg Raiz invests in early founders at FoundersEdge and builds things after hours. Projects, posts, videos and where to find him.

Most-linked posts?

  1. I made an eInk newspaper
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-28
  2. CSS Still Sucks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. Joan’s parent company, Visionect[1], also produces the Place & Play, a 13” or 36” eInk display[2]. Some guy created a rotating newspaper frame from it[3]. Looks quite amazing, and it has a 1 year battery life. [1] https://www.visionect.com [2] https://www.visionect.com/product/place-and-play-32/ [3] blog: https://gregraiz.com/i-made-an-eink-newspaper/ and video: https://youtu.be/gECj1AE9D2c and code: https://github.…

    Comment linking /i-made-an-eink-newspaper/

    on “Turning an eInk screen into a monochrome art gallery”
  2. Submitted I made an eInk newspaper as a story · 547 points

    HN discussion
  3. The problem with css is that it's a horrible design language, terrible from a developer perspective, and abysmal from a performance perspective both on the network-side, server and client side. In-fact it would be difficult to come up with a standard for transmitting information, layout and style specifications over the Internet in a worse and less efficient way. Most web-pages size is 1MB or more while the text is…

    Comment linking /graiz/2006/09/25/ten-reasons-why-css-sucks/

    on “CSS Is, in Fact, Awesome”
  4. Submitted Show HN: SitStand – Control your standing desk from the command line as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. I published this article about how I made my own version of this using docker and some open source code to get the same effect. https://gregraiz.com/posts/i-made-an-eink-newspaper/

    Comment linking /posts/i-made-an-eink-newspaper/

    on “32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall”
  6. Submitted I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. https://www.gregraiz.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  8. Submitted CSS Still Sucks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Why is Zoom exhausting and how to fix it as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Ideas Are Worthless as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The Screwdriver or the Swiss Army Knife as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Clean AI Generated Text as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Building a GPT3 Command Line Application as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted CSS Still Sucks (2021) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Why Blogs Died as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How to Negotiate a Raise as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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