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Om Malik
Personal blog · om.cobusinesshardware
Om Malik writes On my Om, a personal blog at om.co about business and hardware. Since 2012, 186 different Hacker News readers have linked it 359 times, most often “Dean Allen, R.I.P.”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (25) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Om Malik's essays on tech, business and corporate culture, including his Vision Pro reviews and a critique of Tony Hsieh's holacracy. Commenters find them insightful.
- Recommended for · 4 comments
- One calls it an excellent critique of Hsieh's holacracy; another calls an essay beautifully insightful.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 25 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Dean Allen, R.I.P.6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-01-19
- Om interviews Brunello Cucinelli (2015)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-03-13
- The Mythmaker at Anthropic4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-06-08
- We Are Living in Pinocchio's World4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-05-26
- Decoding Zuck's Superintelligence Memo4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-07-31
- The debt beneath the AI build out4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-03-10
- Block and Tackle: Job Cuts and the AI Narrative4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-02-28
- Camera sales are falling sharply3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-09-03
- The iPhone is today’s Kodak Brownie Camera3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-25
- Real reasons why tech giants are hugging “Remote Work”3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-23
What Hacker News says?
It's an excellent real world critique of Hsieh's ‘Delivering Happiness’ holacracy ethos. https://om.co/2020/11/28/tony-hseih-rip/
Comment linking /2020/11/28/tony-hseih-rip/
on “Tony Hsieh has died”Submitted The reason Facebook won’t ever change as a story · 222 points
HN discussion25% of the top 1000 websites are blocking OpenAI from crawling: https://originality.ai/ai-bot-blocking I am betting hundreds of thousands, rising to millions more little sites, will start blocking/gating this year. AI companies might license from big sources (you can see the blocking percentage went down), but they will be missing the long tail, where a lot of great novel training data lives. And then the big sites…
Comment linking /2024/12/21/dark-musings-on-media-ai/
on “GPT-5 is behind schedule”Submitted Camera sales are falling sharply as a story · 219 points
HN discussionA week ago we discussed Om Malik's article "Camera sales are falling sharply". I am one of those people who now does not upgrade his camera, nor use it any more, as much as I like it. I use my smartphone, albeit with some aftermarket Moment wide- and fish-eye lenses on it. This phone makes total sense to me. The money I used to spend on cameras and lenses will be captured by the smartphone companies. https://om.co/2…
Comment linking /2019/09/03/camera-sales-are-falling-sharply/
on “iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max”Submitted Leave Facebook as a story · 207 points
HN discussionOm Malik just published "A Statement about Gigaom" to his personal blog. http://om.co/2015/03/09/a-statement-about-gigaom/
Comment linking /2015/03/09/a-statement-about-gigaom/
on “Gigaom Closes Down”Submitted MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem as a story · 110 points
HN discussionThat absolutely is untrue. Om Malik, for just one, has posted at least three articles discussing in depth his extended reviews of the Vision Pro. Here's one ( https://om.co/2023/12/14/why-vision-pro-will-change-photogra... ): > Over the past few months, I have had the opportunity to spend time with Apple’s soon-to-be-released Vision Pro, a spatial computer that you wear on your face.
Comment linking /2023/12/14/why-vision-pro-will-change-photography/
on “Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2”Submitted Microsoft CTO on the future of software engineering [audio] as a story · 97 points
HN discussionhttps://om.co/2020/05/23/real-reasons-why-tech-giants-are-hu...
Comment linking /2020/05/23/real-reasons-why-tech-giants-are-hugging-remote-work/
on “Employers are rethinking open-plan office design”Submitted Every tech downturn has a silver lining as a story · 78 points
HN discussion"Large companies are somewhat like me - once they get used to a certain behavior, they develop a certain culture and a set of procedures, processes and a work environment that defines them and their future. These define their corporate DNA. It is hard to change. You can't buy new DNA, and companies can't acquire their way into new corporate cultures. Furthermore, companies that lack that self-awareness of their DNA…
Comment linking /2011/02/11/change-is-good-but-its-also-really-hard/
on “The reason Facebook won’t ever change”Submitted A Long Goodbye To Facebook as a story · 72 points
HN discussionIf only social media was the worst.... see Juul Labs: https://om.co/2018/07/25/juul-stinks/
Comment linking /2018/07/25/juul-stinks/
on “Death of a startup founder (2016)”Submitted The Story of Stent as a story · 69 points
HN discussionA couple of reviews: - https://om.co/2024/05/18/daylight-tablet/ - https://arun.is/blog/daylight-tablet/
Comment linking /2024/05/18/daylight-tablet/
on “Daylight eInk Computer”Submitted Real reasons why tech giants are hugging “Remote Work” as a story · 64 points
HN discussionI wonder if the author (Om Malik) has revised his thinking on a related matter: http://om.co/2016/04/25/should-you-publish-on-facebook-first... > My parting comment (which he included in the final piece) was that if I were to start a publication, it would be on Facebook (perhaps as a Facebook page). Today I learned that Vox Media is going to launch Circuit Breaker, a gadget blog, as a Facebook-only publication. (It…
Comment linking /2016/04/25/should-you-publish-on-facebook-first/
on “Facebook's News Feed”Submitted The inevitable has happened as a story · 60 points
HN discussion> I suspect we'll never know the true story of what happened with Dean Allen; looking back, there were definite signs even from as far removed as I am of him battling with depression, but of course, I'm writing this now with hindsight. Or he just liked to drink. Have you seen this piece from Om Malik? https://om.co/2018/01/18/dean-allen-rest-in-peace/ There's a story in there about Dean Allen getting drunk and locki…
Comment linking /2018/01/18/dean-allen-rest-in-peace/
on “Textpattern CMS 4.8.0”Submitted The Mediocrity of Modern Google as a story · 49 points
HN discussionThat's me. I started with Radio UserLand ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_UserLand ), but later used the early version of Textpattern. I hadn't looked at Textpattern in a long-time, so I went searching, only to discover Dean Allen had passed away ( https://om.co/2018/01/18/dean-allen-rest-in-peace/ ). I'm glad the software lives on.
Comment linking /2018/01/18/dean-allen-rest-in-peace/
on “Craft CMS 4 Released”Submitted Can someone please stop the infographic madness? as a story · 48 points
HN discussionI would say that the plugin offerings is key to its success. Even if I often criticize my wordpress installation I prefer to install a plugin in one click than spend a lot of time at the html/css/js level. Beyond that I couldn't understand their product feature priorities: no headings in their wysiwyg editor, no good themes. I was looking to something like http://om.co which is wordpress but using commercial themes…
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on “Performance of WordPress Hosting Companies Compared”Submitted Instagram has become qvc 2.0 as a story · 35 points
HN discussionhttps://om.co/2023/03/21/amazon-shuts-down-dpreview/ > The saddest part of the shutdown is Amazon’s decision to keep the site in “read-only mode for a limited period” after the shutdown on April 10th. That is a shame considering how valuable a resource has been for the internet from the beginning. It is even more disappointing because Amazon is the largest cloud provider in the world, and letting this live on wouldn…
Comment linking /2023/03/21/amazon-shuts-down-dpreview/
on “Dpreview.com is coming to an end”Submitted The iPhone is today’s Kodak Brownie Camera as a story · 35 points
HN discussionOm Malik ( https://om.co/2023/12/14/why-vision-pro-will-change-photogra... ) wants us all to believe that family movie nights will be with everyone sitting in the couch all watching on their Vision Pros. He sees it as an existential threat to the movie theater. How do you share popcorn on the couch all plugged in? And that’s after your average American home with its 2.2 children lay out $14,000+ for their Apple tax.…
Comment linking /2023/12/14/why-vision-pro-will-change-photography/
on “Netflix won't have a Vision Pro app, compromising the device's appeal”Submitted Why Cloud Business Needs Better Metrics as a story · 26 points
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