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welcome to my web sight is a personal blog at aria.dog about culture and programming. Since 2020, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Why I’ll never create modules for VCV Rack anymore–and what I’ll make instead”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts about the VCV Rack virtual Eurorack project, including its license and community moderation, and about the author's reasons for not making modules for it. Comments also touch on AI coding.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I’ll never create modules for VCV Rack anymore–and what I’ll make instead5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-05-04
- The Forklift Certified License3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-19
What Hacker News says?
> I would love to see an anti-AI take that doesn't hinge on the idea that technology forces people to be lazy/careless/thoughtless. Here's a couple points which are related to each other: 1) LLMs are statistical models of text (code being text). They can only exist because huge for-profit companies ingested a lot of code under proprietary, permissive and copyleft licenses, most of which at the very least require att…
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on “The AI coding trap”Submitted Why I’ll never create modules for VCV Rack anymore–and what I’ll make instead as a story · 188 points
HN discussionsome context from a third party vcv rack developer, who has not yet left the scene. while I agree with Aria's assessments[0], and respect Aria; their unhappiness is only focused on the founder (Andrew). I respect what Andrew has built, but unfortunately, the environment that he fostered has sprung up others that are 100x more toxic than Andrew himself on his worst days. Unfortunately, there are others that actively…
Comment linking /barks/why-i-will-never-create-modules-for-vcv-rack-anymore/
on “Rack 2 (Virtual Eurorack)”Submitted The Forklift Certified License as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSome context from a third party VCV Rack plugin developer: > The last straw concerned the policy about taking over inactive modules. About making it possible by default for someone to take over my very name, Aria Salvatrice, and releasing their own fork of my software under my name. > That’s right: if I’m inactive for just one short little month, someone else can just go ahead and release software under my name, my…
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on “Rack 2 (Virtual Eurorack)”Submitted Why is 'Left Stick to Sprint' so unpleasant in games? as a story · 29 points
HN discussionAs I understand it, the prime underlying issue is that the VCV Rack project is licensed, developed & community managed in a way that leaves at least some contributors feeling (at a minimum) unappreciated, unwelcome and/or exploited. The VCV "development team" is a single individual and it seems there are no project governance structures in place to manage risks around accountability. Dissent appears to be suppressed…
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on “NES Module for VCV Rack”Submitted The Forklift Certified License as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFor additional context, it seems the post in the "Background" link was published sometime in 2021 or 2020 and the first release of Cardinal seems to have been in February 2022: https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/releases/tag/22.02 So that is presumably why it wasn't mentioned in the post itself. There are also a couple of other more recent projects I'm aware of that relate to the issues discussed in the "No Perfect…
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on “NES Module for VCV Rack”Submitted Every Plaform is Hitler: mourning friendships lost as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIt drives me nuts how VCV Rack has such a cool technical architecture, but such an insidious license and community moderation. (You can't even discuss it on the forums, they simply delete the post.) Background: https://aria.dog/barks/why-i-will-never-create-modules-for-v...
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on “NES Module for VCV Rack”Submitted Let's Stop Debating the Gnu Imp Manipulation Program as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Web Masters will rise again as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I’ll never create modules for VCV Rack anymore as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can post whatever you wanna on the internet as a story · 1 points
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