Om

https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om

by throw0101a • 26 days ago

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Related: Om Malik has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852 - June 2026 (161 comments)

jnaina• 26 days ago

Beautifully written. Om will be missed.

ChrisArchitect• 26 days ago

Some more anecdotes & discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852

bastawhiz• 26 days 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• 26 days 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.

avilay• 26 days ago

Reminds of this couplet by Kabir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir):

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.

snayan• 26 days ago

Beautiful

chiefgeek• 26 days ago

Beautiful tribute. Godspeed.

eightnoneone• 26 days ago

Top marks, that.

dcrazy• 26 days 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.

bastian• 26 days ago

Thank you John. From someone who knew him less but liked him just as much.

cr125rider• 26 days ago

Sounds like the world lost a good one. It’s extra sad when that happens.

Sorry for your loss, John. That was an excellent tribute.

tmsh• 26 days ago

Really well-written. Maybe black bar @dang?

embit• 26 days 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.

https://om.co/2026/05/26/the-copy-and-the-guru/#respond

geekybiz• 26 days 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.

jimkleiber• 26 days ago

It's rare that something posted on HN brings me to tears but I feel lucky when it does.

Thank you for this.

theturtletalks• 26 days ago

I did not know Om but the way his friends and confidants write about him, I wish I did.

tosh• 26 days ago

rare to see images, let alone with color in a Daring Fireball post

great read, I'm sure I would have bought a suitcase from Om

RIP Om

niraj898• 26 days ago

SORRY TO HEAR SUCH SAD NEWS!!

jeswin• 25 days 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.

But the old internet still exists in pockets. I found this via Om - glass.photo. https://glass.photo/cm/LCGjX2IqUWtK288zq5dSt

pknerd• 25 days ago

Such a beautiful tribute to him. Lovely!

jujube3• 25 days ago

RIP.

thoughtpeddler• 25 days ago

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.

Om

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