Show HN: Is It Greg?
A new Chrome extension named Is It Greg? has been released to highlight Hacker News content associated with Greg Sadetsky. The tool identifies submissions linking to greg.technology and posts made by the user gregsadetsky. It marks these items with a distinctive orange badge featuring Greg's face.
- ▪The extension highlights Hacker News stories that link to greg.technology or its subdomains.
- ▪It also flags stories and comments posted by the user gregsadetsky.
- ▪Matches are visually indicated by a small orange badge containing Greg's face.
- ▪The extension requires no build step, dependencies, or permissions beyond running on news.ycombinator.com.
Hacker News (Front Page) files mainly under programming. We currently carry 1,582 of its stories. Top-voted stories on Hacker News.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/antoineleclair/is-it-greg |
| Publication time | Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:58:41 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-14T02:26:50.481Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-14T02:26:50.481Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Is It Greg? A tiny Chrome extension that highlights Hacker News submissions linking to greg.technology or any of its subdomains, as well as stories and comments posted by Greg himself (gregsadetsky). Matches get a small orange Greg badge (with his face on it). What it looks like Greg sweeps the front page, flagging stories that link to greg.technology or that he submitted: His comments get flagged too: Install Open chrome://extensions. Turn on Developer mode (top right). Click Load unpacked and select this repository's directory. Browse Hacker News. Try /from?site=greg.technology to see it in action. No build step, no dependencies, no permissions beyond running on news.ycombinator.com.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.