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gregcohn

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About gregcohn

Co-founder and CEO, Burner. http://brnr.me

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    Would really like Siri AI to have an MCP server

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    While points 1 and 2 are indeed desirable, point 3 should be moot given we have a constitutional right to privacy and freedom from unreasonable search and seizures. The combination…

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    As someone who runs a company, this article resonated with me. This stuff happens in every department and has a lot to do with how the company is run day to day. If you think about…

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    Comment #40884643

    Anyone who has kids has to answer the phone from strangers routinely. School staff and camp counselors are routinely using their own cell phones these days to communicate with pare…

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    Comment #24510307

    I am partial to Notion and have been experimenting with it for one meeting. The Slack integration works well. Do you have any top-5 templates you can describe or share?

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    Ask HN: Tools and practices for non-technical task management in your startup?

    We're at 25 employees. Prod/Eng documentation, ticket, sprint, etc. planning is a well-oiled machine, using confluence/jira as the back-end. A number of other point solutions (e.g.…

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    Comment #20274096

    From the team that made Burner, an iOS app that screens out all calls, allowing only a user-designated whitelist to ring through.

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    Comment #19869744

    I wrote about this a while back. https://medium.com/@gregcohn/burners-dont-hack-uber-people-d... TL;DR Phone numbers are not unique ID keys for people. But it seems like many compa…

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    Comment #16978593

    See you at Tacos Villa Corona!

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    Comment #16968872

    Burner + Ad Hoc Labs | Mobile, back end, and dev ops engineers | Los Angeles | Full-time | ONSITE Burner is innovating at the intersection of software and telecom by offering smart…

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    Comment #14690428

    Burner | Los Angeles, CA | Dev-ops Engineer | Full-time Burner (Ad Hoc Labs, Inc.) Burner is empowering people to take control over their primary channel of communication – the pho…

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    Comment #14064485

    My pleasure and definitely agree some of the things I suggested go well beyond MVP. It is the blessing and the curse of getting product feedback that the second you do something in…

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    Comment #14062827

    This is quite interesting! (Former book editor here.) I will totally use this to discover and buy books. I might suggest your "buzzfeed for books" comparison doesn't do it justice.…

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    I thought the most interesting but unexplained phrase in the piece was "contrary to paperwork filed with the Nevada DMV". As in, "Uber also claims that, contrary to paperwork filed…

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    Comment #14035697

    What fresh hell is this?

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    Comment #13932906

    Did you know the wheels have morse code embedded in their tread? https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=3497

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    A succinct overview, from our docs. We're excited to see what comes of this and would love to hear feedback. --- The Burner API enables programmatic access to core telephony functi…

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    Comment #10255087

    Fascinating. As member I've always thought it would be a lot of temptation to leave these cars around with the keys in plain sight, and assumed there was a cut-off capability. It s…

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    Comment #10240873

    It did occur to me that he might have been threatened by a lawsuit (or more than one). I suspect he would have been direct about that, if in a position to, but a large corporation …