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Nat Friedman

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Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

nat.org

California

Joined February 2008

Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Feb 5, 2024
Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000
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Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Jan 25, 2025
The deepseek team is obviously really good. China is full of talented engineers. Every other take is cope. Sorry.
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Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Apr 8, 2023
We moved out of San Francisco to Menlo Park a year ago after two meth addicts broke into our house while we were home and robbed us. They are both free now. The police who arrested them -- and were later forced to release them by the DA -- said these criminals were "frequent
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Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Dec 27, 2024
We did it! We tested 300 Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals. We found some interesting surprises. Top 5 findings in our test results: 1. Our tests found plastic chemicals in 86% of all foods, with phthalates in 73% of the tested products and bisphenols in 22%. It's
Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
May 11, 2024
I'm going to re-run all these tests on food we eat in California. Also going to test for other plastic chemicals. Let me know what foods we should test and suggestions for methodology.
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Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Oct 12, 2023
Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll. The word is "πορφυρας" which means "purple dye" or "cloths of purple." scrollprize.org/firstletters Congratulations to 21yo computer science
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Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Apr 14, 2020
Today we're making GitHub free for teams of unlimited size, for private and public work. 🎉 Every developer on earth should have access to GitHub, and price shouldn't be a barrier. github.blog/2020-04-14-git…
Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Jan 6, 2023
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Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Oct 26, 2022
Many tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed and everyone who's paying attention already knows this
Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Jan 7, 2019
Today(!) we’re thrilled to announce unlimited free private repos for all GitHub users, and a new simplified Enterprise offering:
New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering
From github.blog
Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Jan 29, 2025
TIL: in the 1990s Clinton offered federal workers a $25,000 buyout, and ~150,000 took the deal. He cut federal government spending from 22% to 18% of the economy, the lowest level since 1966.
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Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Feb 3, 2025
Federal spending in 2024 was ~$7T. In 2019 it was ~$4.5T. 🤔
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Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Jan 7, 2023
That @satyanadella had the vision and conviction to put $1B into OpenAI a year before GPT-3 is amazing and underappreciated. openai.com/blog/microsoft/
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Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Dec 17, 2020
Cookie banners are annoying, so we removed them from GitHub:
No cookie for you
From github.blog
Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
Feb 3, 2025
Luke Farritor is a national treasure.
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