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osk blog
Personal blog · blog.osk.shgamesculture
osk blog is a personal blog at blog.osk.sh about games and culture. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Is Tetr.io Legal?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a write-up by a Tetris clone developer on DMCA takedowns. It argues that app stores and large hosts can be pushed to remove games easily, while self-hosted sites are much harder to take down.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Is Tetr.io Legal?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-27
What Hacker News says?
https://blog.osk.sh/post.php?p=643dbb578e1ba3.57021842
Comment linking /post.php?p=643dbb578e1ba3.57021842
on “Open Source Game Clones”Submitted Is Tetr.io Legal? as a story · 83 points
HN discussionHere’s a really good breakdown from the dev of a Tetris clone: https://blog.osk.sh/post.php?p=643dbb578e1ba3.57021842 TLDR is that it’s really easy to get a larger hosting platform such as Steam, the App Store, etc to take down a game just by issuing a DMCA. But suing to take down something on a self hosted website is much, much harder
Comment linking /post.php?p=643dbb578e1ba3.57021842
on “Unciv”Submitted The Internet Event Horizon (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion