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Hacker News is down, so we made five issues free
- DeepDuh 14y agoHere's the problem: I had no idea until now.
- lucb1e 14y agoWhat do you mean HN is down ;-)
- instakill 14y agoThis title is a paradox.
- jvc26 14y agoThis happened last time there was a big HN-Monthly giveaway ...
- bearwithclaws 14y ago...when I was naive enough to host all 19 free issues on my Linode server (lowest plan).
- beobab 14y agoIronically, I can't download them because the download link is down.
- ekianjo 14y agoSeems like someone's server cannot handle the load :)
- erre 14y agoAnd now that Hacker News is back up, I'm getting a 502 when trying to download the issues. Oh, the irony :)
- abend 14y agooh the ironing.
- haakon 14y agoHow cruel, then, that the "Free digital download" links point to a server that's "502 Bad Gateway".
- gregd 14y agoSame error I'm getting. Nice one HN...
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- Yuioup 14y agoIssues? You mean there's a magazine?
- bonchibuji 14y agoI apologize for being naive, but I don't understand this. Are they putting together the best of the month and publishing them? In that case, why do they charge for digital copy? Also, are they paying any license fee for the content? I mean, I don't get the model. What difference does it make with Hacker Newsletter? http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ http://www.hackernewsletter.com/
- niggler 14y agoThe content is free: http://hackermonthly.com/issue-33.html http://hackermonthly.com/issue-33.html What you are paying for, in the digital version, is the formatting and other work.
- mikeash 14y agoI sell a book that's a collection of my freely-available blog posts. People like the convenience of having everything in a single file that can easily be read offline, searched, etc. People also like supporting things they read.
- RBerenguel 14y agoI have been a contributor in two issues. Before an article you have written gets published there you are asked for your permission (and given a few months free of charge of subscription.) Also, the layout design, images and all this is work someone has done, and is an awesome work. After my free months expired, I subscribed. There are always things I miss in Hacker News, reading Hacker Monthly makes sure I read the best (or what the collective intelligence+editors in HM deem the best) in the best reading outline
- bearwithclaws 14y agoThanks for the awesome explanation, Ruben!
- RBerenguel 14y agoVery welcome, I just love HM :)
- roy_s 14y ago502...??? Raise hopes then crush them..HN, what is going on with you!!!
- init0 14y agoWell, I have all the issues with me ;) http://h3manth.com/i/218150a91b.png http://h3manth.com/i/218150a91b.png
- xijuan 14y agoNice collection!
- apinnes 14y agoMirrors for 4 of the issues: Issue 12 - https://mega.co.nz/#!1JBAhTrD!TFJGnCL0WZoYFiyQ1l-EkSSdpoEHFKxoGL0ubM2PF5k https://mega.co.nz/#!1JBAhTrD!TFJGnCL0WZoYFiyQ1l-EkSSdpoEHFK... Issue 17 - https://mega.co.nz/#!5VhF2T4Z!RHrGVhq5niaR_yT-a0ELDB1CAuhQKl4l0D11RzCKxl0 https://mega.co.nz/#!5VhF2T4Z!RHrGVhq5niaR_yT-a0ELDB1CAuhQKl... Issue 21 - https://mega.co.nz/#!RdomTShI!J4aRultSbwh7ylwxUUoNzQDCwJYZIgjwAM9nbAx1d14 https://mega.co.nz/#!RdomTShI!J4aRultSbwh7ylwxUUoNzQDCwJYZIg... Issue 26 - https://mega.co.nz/#!RJxzwLBL!Dzgd71TrFl-gTtQajNFSYF3aqpVOjZJbxgftSP73I6M https://mega.co.nz/#!RJxzwLBL!Dzgd71TrFl-gTtQajNFSYF3aqpVOjZ...
- bearwithclaws 14y agoDidn't expect this to hit HN so soon :) I've just fixed all of the download links. Kindly try again. And I'll forever remember the ironies....
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- santa_boy 14y agoI hope I am not doing something wrong here. I was wondering why this person did not host it on some scalable cloud provider (like dropbox). Looks like the redirect service was broken .... I went through the first link and then just engineered the rest using the issue names. I guessed them from this link http://blog.hackermonthly.com/hn-down.html http://blog.hackermonthly.com/hn-down.html These links below seem to be available directly without any authentication. https://letscrate.com/d/hackermonthly/giveaway/hackermonthly-issue026.zip https://letscrate.com/d/hackermonthly/giveaway/hackermonthly... https://letscrate.com/d/hackermonthly/giveaway/hackermonthly-issue023.zip https://letscrate.com/d/hackermonthly/giveaway/hackermonthly... https://letscrate.com/d/hackermonthly/giveaway/hackermonthly-issue021.zip https://letscrate.com/d/hackermonthly/giveaway/hackermonthly... https://letscrate.com/d/hackermonthly/giveaway/hackermonthly-issue017.zip https://letscrate.com/d/hackermonthly/giveaway/hackermonthly... https://letscrate.com/d/hackermonthly/giveaway/hackermonthly-issue012.zip https://letscrate.com/d/hackermonthly/giveaway/hackermonthly...
- bearwithclaws 14y agoTheir entire site went down just now (hopefully not because of us) hence the 502 error. And just came back up a few moments ago. I moved the download links to my own S3.
- santa_boy 14y agoAh ok! Thank you! :-)
- swah 14y agoAnyone knows which software is used to publishing something like this? Looks very nice.
- ValentineC 14y agoFrom the PDF metadata, Adobe InDesign CS4/CS5.
- bearwithclaws 14y agoBlogged about my design process here: http://blog.hackermonthly.com/on-designing-hacker-monthly.html http://blog.hackermonthly.com/on-designing-hacker-monthly.ht...
- swah 14y agoThanks. Its odd how, even being on a PC, reading something with pages is much better than reading by scrolling and scrolling.
- Havoc 14y agoIs Elon Musk wearing lipstick in that picture, or is it just a wicked colour balancing issue?
- f1codz 14y agoThank you so much. I'm gonna read ur subscription. Like them. And probably subscribe to them :)
- DoubleCluster 14y agoWill you be featuring this HN post in your magazine?
- pit 14y agoThank you so much. I'm particularly grateful that you bundled different file types in the same zip, so I don't have to be like, "let's see -- should I download the MOBI version? Or the PDF version? Or maybe ePub? Wait a minute, I don't have even have a tablet -- why am I having this debate?" One fewer decision to make.
- alpb 14y agoHackerMonthly guys: Buy Now does not work: http://hackermonthly.com/store.html http://hackermonthly.com/store.html
- alpb 14y agoHackerMonthly guys: Buy Now does not work: http://hackermonthly.com/store.html http://hackermonthly.com/store.html
- unix-dude 14y agoI'd love to get the print edition, but the price is a bit steep. Still, a very cool magazine, I'd love to see it at Coffee Shops/Barnes and Noble type places!
- rubenrails 14y agoJust went to check the subscriber area and I got a 500 error https://subscriber.hackermonthly.com/ https://subscriber.hackermonthly.com/
- bearwithclaws 14y agoShould be working now :)
- rgovind 14y agoA suggestion: You should also include top 3-5 comments along with the HN. It would be really insightful to readers
- rahulroy 14y agoThat's actually an awesome idea.