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Justin Frankel
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Justin Frankel's personal blog at askjf.com covers programming and culture. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Justin Frankel, creator of Winamp and Gnutella, runs an Ask Justin Q&A site where he answers readers' questions. HN links it for his answers on Winamp's history, its licence terms and his past decisions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /index.php?q=7357s3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-09-25
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-11
What Hacker News says?
Looks like it's from his "Ask Justin Frankel" website: https://www.askjf.com/index.php?q=7357s
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on “Winamp Legacy player source code”Submitted Ask Justin Frankel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJustin Frankel, the Winamp developer who sold to AOL and later made Gnutella, the original p2p file sharing phenom .. has this AMA website and he still replies in hours if you ask him something. https://www.askjf.com/index.php
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on “Winamp Skin Museum”Here's a statement from the co-author of Winamp, Justin Frankel: > If I did have any desire, it would be extinguished by the license terms, lol. The terms are completely absurd in the way they are written, e.g. "You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software." So arguably making any changes would be considered "creating a forked version." But even taking these terms as they are likely i…
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on “Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks”On Justin Frankel's website(the person who wrote the original Winamp) Some one actually had asked this question and his reply https://www.askjf.com/index.php?q=5935s Question: Did you see the announcement about the winamp relaunch? Answer: Yeah. I regret not buying Winamp back when I had the chance; it wouldn't have been expensive and it was out of a sort of selfishness not doing it (not feeling like dealing with th…
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on “Winamp”> Not only is the N1 much more expensive, but it also has a much worse music-playing interface. Until someone fixes the Android music player or writes their own (luckily, an app can have all the privileges that the core apps have, so anyone could just write the Awesome Music Player app and put it in the market) I really want someone to fix this. Android needs a WinAmp type thing to play and catalogue any music. The…
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on “John Gruber's Post-I/O Thoughts”Justin Frankel (Winamp author) response here: https://www.askjf.com/index.php?q=7357s
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on “Winamp removed "No forking" restriction from license”To this day Justin maintains https://www.askjf.com/ if you ever want to ask him something :)
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on “Nullsoft, 1997-2004 AOL kills off the last maverick tech company (2004)”Went down the Frenkel (Nullsoft founder) rabbit hole. Check out his forum where they've recently discussed AI bots scraping his forum [0]. Or his question submission page; he hasn't "left a reasonable question unanswered since 2009" [1] > nothing specific against cloudflare, but the point of the internet is that it's decentralized and I'd hate to contribute against that (though we already do somewhat, hosting on aws…
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on “Nullsoft, 1997-2004 AOL kills off the last maverick tech company (2004)”