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geekybiz 16 hours ago [-]
"He not busy being born is busy dying, wrote Dylan. Om Malik wasn’t busy dying even when he was dying." - so very well said.
bastawhiz 19 hours ago [-]
The first time I had any exposure to Om and his work was on The GigaOm Show on Revision3 (twenty years ago!). It was still a time where I thought it was wondrous that high production-value content would be distributed online for free—YouTube and friends still hadn't found themselves with "high end" content. It felt like the future of news, and it was. He was a really pleasant guy, and really far ahead of his time.
frou_dh 10 hours ago [-]
I remember these guys from the glory days of the CrankyGeeks video podcast. John C. Dvorak and Sebastian Rupley had a great double-act hosting that show.
embit 17 hours ago [-]
Yes, somehow his this particular essay landed in my inbox middle of May, beautully insightful one and an emotional one. I for some reason saved it as I liked it so much. Did not know it had been written from ICU.
Translation:
When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced;
Live such a life that when you depart, you smile while the world weeps.
snayan 10 hours ago [-]
Beautiful
jimkleiber 16 hours ago [-]
It's rare that something posted on HN brings me to tears but I feel lucky when it does.
Thank you for this.
dcrazy 18 hours ago [-]
One thing SF and NY have in common are those luggage stores. I’ve always assumed they’re a multi-layer front: the obvious scam is selling baggage stolen off the carousel, but the deeper scam is that couriers can walk in pretending to be a customer and walk out with a suitcase full of cash.
That said, they do serve a legit purpose for when you’ve bought some souvenirs. But that can’t be enough to sustain these places.
pknerd 2 hours ago [-]
Such a beautiful tribute to him. Lovely!
jeswin 9 hours ago [-]
I was an avid reader during the web 2.0 days. Quite sad that his kind of tech journalism vanished; one could feel the decline of independent blogs month over month, while Facebook and Google were taking over the entirety of the web's traffic control.
Multiple front-page tribute posts now to Om and still no black bar. @dang can we at least get some guidance around who qualifies for the posthumous black bar? If the threshold is: "was this a person of great significance to this community?" I think in this case it's clearly been met. If the rule rests on other questions like "was this person a 'technologist'?" then at least let's see it made explicit. For better or worse, we're only going to have more 'black bar moments' going into the future.
https://om.co/2026/05/26/the-copy-and-the-guru/#respond
Sorry for your loss, John. That was an excellent tribute.
जब हम पैदा हुये तो जग हँसे हम रोये,
ऐसी करनी कर चलो, हम हँसे, जग रोये।
Translation: When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced;
Live such a life that when you depart, you smile while the world weeps.
Thank you for this.
That said, they do serve a legit purpose for when you’ve bought some souvenirs. But that can’t be enough to sustain these places.
But the old internet still exists in pockets. I found this via Om - glass.photo. https://glass.photo/cm/LCGjX2IqUWtK288zq5dSt
great read, I'm sure I would have bought a suitcase from Om
RIP Om