Amen Break • Hacker News Board

Re: Amen Break

#11

Post by elpocko » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 5:32 PM UTC

kbd wrote: post #6

[flagged]

Announcing your flagging is against the guidelines, too. Flagged.

Re: Amen Break

#12

Post by kaidon » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

kbd wrote: post #6

[flagged]

Hard disagree. The amen break, the music it is a part of, the technology and evolution in sound that it heavily influenced; is a welcome discussion focus on a weekend for many on HN.

Re: Amen Break

#13

Post by marjipan200 » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

elpocko wrote: post #11

kbd wrote: post #6

[flagged]

Announcing your flagging is against the guidelines, too. Flagged.

Announcing your flagging of the flagging is against the guidelines. Not flagged

Re: Amen Break

#14

Post by jeffrallen » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 6:52 PM UTC

A colleague gave his first ever lightning talk about this at a work retreat and it was SMASHING.

Re: Amen Break

#15

Post by nubinetwork » Sat, Jul 25, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC

kbd wrote: post #6

[flagged]

Not even that, people like to post random Wikipedia articles with no context for the free internet points... I don't even know why HN allows Wikipedia links as posts.

Re: Amen Break

#16

Post by xnx » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 8:04 PM UTC

A good opportunity to link to the absolutely fantastic whosampled.com: https://www.whosampled.com/The-Winstons/Amen,-Brother/