Hacker News: omgmajk

New comment by omgmajk in "The lost joy of music piracy"

omgmajk — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:26:37 +0000

Go check out ektoplazm.com, electronic music with permissable licenses. Good for the culture of this website. Most things can be downloaded in flac.

Then when you have found a style, soundcloud is likely your home to find stuff and then when you have found it you can either rip it or buy it.

New comment by omgmajk in "The lost joy of music piracy"

omgmajk — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:20:00 +0000

I haven't used a public site since Suprnova so I don't know about the health of public p2p sites at all. The private side is absolutely not stagnant, new sites pop up all the time and you can still find all the niche stuff you want to find by just nudging the enthusiasts with requests.

A lot of them seed from home, with humongous servers, and there are preservation programs going on in various places.

New comment by omgmajk in "The lost joy of music piracy"

omgmajk — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:03:53 +0000

Never bought any merch from what, but I do own a ScT t-shirt :)

New comment by omgmajk in "The lost joy of music piracy"

omgmajk — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:34:05 +0000

Music piracy is alive and well if you know where to look. Some places has been mentioned in this thread already. Of course there is no replacing the magic of early 2000-2010's p2p sites like OiNK, What and Waffles - but well curated sites still exist.

New comment by omgmajk in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

omgmajk — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:44:12 +0000

Written by an LLM, deployed by an agent to the blog, posted to HN by a bot, upvoted by more bots to market "AI".

New comment by omgmajk in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

omgmajk — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:24:17 +0000

Some stunning images, looks like a sun plopped down in the middle of the desert.

New comment by omgmajk in "EFF is leaving X"

omgmajk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:58:01 +0000

Surely copy-pasting a short text and possibly a link is not actual work that takes time.

All they would need to do is set up some cross-posting pipeline and the work would be pretty much zero.

They could even drive people to click on mastodon/bsky links this way if they wanted people to go to the decentralized web.

This take is not valid.

New comment by omgmajk in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

omgmajk — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:43:44 +0000

Screwing over normal people and their rights is a feature, not a side effect.

New comment by omgmajk in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

omgmajk — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:03:08 +0000

This site is blocked by Cisco Corporate Security, so can't read it. I wonder why.

New comment by omgmajk in "Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS"

omgmajk — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:15:54 +0000

Two games in a row now I have gotten to a point where the last two pieces are ontop of eachother. I think this is perfectly fine, but seems to happen a little too often. Or I was just very unlucky.

Otherwise it's a sweet game!

New comment by omgmajk in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

omgmajk — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:39:27 +0000

Here in Sweden it's uncommon. Especially in big parking lots/houses.

New comment by omgmajk in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

omgmajk — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:35:20 +0000

Does the Nordea app work on Graphene? I am curious because I have been itching to switch my main phone to an alternate OS.

New comment by omgmajk in "Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout"

omgmajk — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:34:19 +0000

Creatine monohydrate (and seemingly HCL too, though not tested long term) kind of makes me constipated. I'd like to take it, because I lift weights quite often, but it just messes with my stomach too much.

New comment by omgmajk in "Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game"

omgmajk — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:53:18 +0000

I used to play a lot of Crimsonland, so this is very nice. I thought the updated version that they later released on Steam never captured the original feeling. The newer game is still fun but the older version is better, gameplay wise.

New comment by omgmajk in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

omgmajk — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:11:53 +0000

I haven't looked into Odin that much but I hear it's swell, so maybe I should!

New comment by omgmajk in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

omgmajk — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:00:57 +0000

I explored the programming language nim a bit deeper for use in game programming with SDL3 bindings, but I came to find out that compiled nim code on Windows often triggers anti-virus because, from what I hear from people, nim is used a lot in malware development currently. Which is a shame because I really like that language. I haven't tested it myself, it's just things I have heard and read. Someone on r/gamedev told me to write the code in nim, generate C code and then compile it with zig cc.

If anyone has any experience with this, please do chime in :)

New comment by omgmajk in "Iran is likely jamming Starlink"

omgmajk — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:22:12 +0000

In certain subreddits I have seen the idea that there is no revolution, it's all mossad/CIA propaganda. It's quite conspiratorial but it's the same subs that typically love China, NK etc so it's not surprising.

However, I have seen these thoughts spread to more seemingly mainstream geopolitical subs as well. I am not sure how much astroturfing is going on here. Probably quite a lot.

New comment by omgmajk in "enclose.horse"

omgmajk — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:01:43 +0000

Very enjoyable work pastime!

Great stuff :)

New comment by omgmajk in "Strange.website"

omgmajk — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:17:05 +0000

I laughed out loud when I saw computers in blue text, always fun to see a HoL reference.

New comment by omgmajk in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

omgmajk — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:24:32 +0000

I do not, but I get what you mean :)