All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours(hn.my)

247 pointsby yanowitz15 tahun yang lalu98 comments

All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

http://hn.my/xmas

106 comments

kinkora15 tahun yang lalu

fauldsh15 tahun yang lalu

Everything in one zip:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?klj42fqmnwx0xtr

callahad15 tahun yang lalu

Zipfile, and the list above, are missing the "Startup Marketing" special issue: http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-startupmarketing.zip

http://hackermonthly.com/startup-marketing.html

fauldsh15 tahun yang lalu

I removed this because this was only a single day offer and I am uncomfortable with leaving everything up in the public domain without the owner's permission. Besides which the official site appears to have recovered.

FreeWorld15 tahun yang lalu

Wow, that just saved me hours of waiting for the website to load. Thanks. And thanks Lim, really appreciate this. Happy Christmas.

navpan15 tahun yang lalu

great!! u saved few hrs of my time!! Thanks!

[deleted]15 tahun yang lalu

hfz15 tahun yang lalu

Any link for the Startup Marketing special issue? Thank you.

bearwithclaws15 tahun yang lalu

Everything is on S3 now (but thanks anyway).

zfran15 tahun yang lalu

The special editions don't seem to be up.

toyg15 tahun yang lalu

the official links are still very, very slow to respond. These are much faster.

kinkora15 tahun yang lalu

ahh i just saw that. thanks mate! Merry Xmas to you too!

[deleted]15 tahun yang lalu

BlackJack15 tahun yang lalu

He put some of them up on aws, probably more on the way. I was able to download 1,4,5,7,10,13, and 18. Just replace the "004" at the end with "001", or "010", etc.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Or in terminal just enter:

wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

fauldsh15 tahun yang lalu

I got 1,4,5,7,10,13,16,17,18,19

EDIT: 14 and 15 are up

list is at http://baconfile.com/bearwithclaws/ although that's getting hammered pretty hard as well at the moment

Toddward15 tahun yang lalu

Here's a Python script I threw together to automate this: https://gist.github.com/1515666

At this point, it looks like 1, 4, 5, 7, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 have been put up on S3.

jules15 tahun yang lalu

You can use %03d instead of %s and the number will be zero padded to 3 digits.

anthonyb15 tahun yang lalu

also, range(1,20) rather than needing i+1 throughout your code

Toddward15 tahun yang lalu

Thanks for the tips. I get better at Python every day.

regomodo15 tahun yang lalu

for I in {00..19};

do wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo... ;

done

6ren15 tahun yang lalu

  wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermonthly-issue0{0..1}{0..9}.zip

Using "{0..1}{0..9}" instead of bash 4's zero-padding brace expansion.

[deleted]15 tahun yang lalu

ryanbraganza15 tahun yang lalu

019 is up too

pvilchez15 tahun yang lalu

015 is up now as well.

jvc2615 tahun yang lalu

014 as well now.

MikeCapone15 tahun yang lalu

Maybe there's a way to put the archive in a file locker (like Megaupload) and delete it after 24 hours.. It's pointless to make the files free if /everybody/ tries to download them but /nobody/ actually gets to read the zine because the files time out..

artursapek15 tahun yang lalu

Megaupload is terrible. Please encourage people to use Mediafire.

http://www.mediafire.com

mappu15 tahun yang lalu

Why do you say that? Mediafire is usually my first choice too, but megaupload is a close second (mostly since you can use tessaract on the captcha, either manually or via jdownloader/plowshare) with all the ReCaptcha sites (filesonic/fileshare/wupload...) trailing behind.

artursapek15 tahun yang lalu

They're just distasteful and annoying. Check out Kim Kardashian hanging out on their home page. They make you wait for a download. And I've had problems with downloads always stopping at the same point no matter how many times I tried.

mappu15 tahun yang lalu

I'm sure an adblocker could take care of things for you if you don't personally like the celebrities (the ads are definitely more tasteful than the GET RIPPED IN FOUR WEEKS ads i see on Mediafire now).

Technically speaking it's still a good service, and i've had nothing but good experiences with downloads from there (mostly because i automate them). I accept that you can disagree but i wouldn't go as far as "terrible".

I'm probably biased because i love the song, and Kim Dotcom donated to earthquake relief in my city...

EwanG15 tahun yang lalu

At the risk of appearing to be a fool, I can suggest that if you are doing enough DLing that the wait is a problem for you, you might want to go the Premium route. I'm an anime buff (as well as other stuff), and have a yearly subscription with them and with Fileserve. Blistering fast DLs, no waits or ads, YMMV...

roryokane15 tahun yang lalu

The whole point of the wait on various download sites is to throw advertising for Premium on you. They also make you scroll past “buy premium” buttons and such to reach the download button on some sites. I think you can assume that if someone is complaining about the wait time for a download site, they have already considered and rejected buying Premium.

artursapek15 tahun yang lalu

Nah, I don't visit Mega more than once a month or so. As a UI/UX designer it's just something that really bothers me

roryokane15 tahun yang lalu

One reason is that MegaUpload (and a few other download sites) blocks certain countries from downloading from it. The two countries I have personally experienced blocking in are Egypt and Malaysia. In Egypt, the page always said that the number of download tickets for my country has been exceeded, no matter what time I tried to download at. In Malaysia, the site doesn’t load at all.

J_Darnley15 tahun yang lalu

I used to agree with you. Then Mediafire started requiring javascript to download. Now they're all terrible.

templaedhel15 tahun yang lalu

I'd be happy to host on s3 but I have 12 hours left on the download (772b/sec), if anyone is interested email me (email in profile).

_ques15 tahun yang lalu

  for i in `seq -w 19`; do 
  echo "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0"$i".zip"; 
  done | xargs wget

sciurus15 tahun yang lalu

The loop can be replaced with bash's brace expansion (http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Brace-E...), e.g.

    wget http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0{01..19}.zip

dorkitude15 tahun yang lalu

Wow, never knew about that. Due to zero-padding, I found I actually needed two commands for this to work properly:

    http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue00{1..9}.zip
    http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0{10..19}.zip

rbonvall15 tahun yang lalu

Bash is smart:

    $ echo {01..20}
    01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
    $ echo {1..20}
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

eurleif15 tahun yang lalu

Bash 4 is smart. Bash 3 isn't.

ryanbraganza15 tahun yang lalu

Try:

$ wget http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue{001..19}.z...

jacquesm15 tahun yang lalu

Good deeds rarely go unpunished.

Thank you Lim Cheng Soon, that was very generous of you.

Merry Christmas to you too!

bearwithclaws15 tahun yang lalu

Happy Christmas, Jacques!

DannyPage15 tahun yang lalu

Thanks for this!

Considering how quickly it took someone to write a script to download them all (It is "Hacker" News, after all), I don't know why they didn't just release them all in one Zip file anyway.

Or maybe someone could put a torrent together, given how much they are getting hammered. (2 hours for a 15.6 MB file, yikes!)

sublimepua15 tahun yang lalu

The download links of the page seem irregular, so I was trying to make a list. It looks like he kept all issues ordered on the server under another name though, one that fits this format.

philfreo15 tahun yang lalu

In parallel:

    for i in `seq -w 19`; do 
      wget "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0"$i".zip" &
    done
    wait

davvid15 tahun yang lalu

Let's not forget GNU parallel, that would be naughty ;-)

    seq -w 19 |
    parallel wget http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0{}.zip

;-)

sublimepua15 tahun yang lalu

this guy's servers must be crying.

Dobbs15 tahun yang lalu

seq -w 19 | xargs -I{} -P4 -n1 wget "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0{}.zip

anthonyb15 tahun yang lalu

Don't download in parallel! No wonder his servers are crawling...

No good deed goes unpunished, indeed.

sublimepua15 tahun yang lalu

The servers are getting slashdotted. Anyone who has gotten all of them downloaded feel like making a torrent? Not for the purposes of piracy, of course, but just to spare this poor guy's bandwidth.

jodrellblank15 tahun yang lalu

Use Coral Cache to spare his bandwidth, add .nyud.net to the end of the domain name and it will be routed through the CoralCDN (http://www.coralcdn.org/).

e.g. http://www.hackermonthly.com.nyud.net/blah/blah.zip

tghw15 tahun yang lalu

He posted a snap of his server logs:

http://lockerz.com/s/167554725

Ouch.

gacba15 tahun yang lalu

I think the takeaway here is that if you're going to promote something on HN, put your downloadable content on AWS or some similar CDN first. When there are nerds involved, expect heavy turnout.

Yowza.

jqueryin15 tahun yang lalu

Also, we're cheap. Really hope this works out in his favor and nets a few more signups. I'm interested to see the quality myself, as I've managed to hold off viewing or sampling any of these to date.

jamesRaybould15 tahun yang lalu

Seems like perfect work fodder for me - If I manage to remember in the morning I'll be looking to sign up.

mathrawka15 tahun yang lalu

Or upload to s3 and send out torrent links to it to save bandwidth costs.

thebigshane15 tahun yang lalu

Yeah, I think his biggest donation was one of AWS/S3 bandwidth. Much appreciated, thanks, Lim, I hope this gets you many new subscribers.

hmottestad15 tahun yang lalu

On a mac (without wget) paste this into the terminal and it'll open up every download in a tab in your default web browser.

  open http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-startupstories.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-thedebate.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue019.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue018.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue017.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue016.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue015.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue014.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue013.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue012.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue011.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue010.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue009.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue008.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue007.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue006.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue005.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue004.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue003.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue002.zip;
  open http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue001.zip;

callahad15 tahun yang lalu

Macs have curl, which can easily fill in for wget.

rbritton15 tahun yang lalu

    curl -O "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0[01-19].zip"

rookie15 tahun yang lalu

and for auto resume when it disconnects in the middle.

  curl -C - -O "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0[01-19].zip"

_rs15 tahun yang lalu

Or use homebrew and get wget ;)

amirmc15 tahun yang lalu

There's also the following, which doesn't seem to be in your list.

    http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-startupmarketing.zip

angrycoder15 tahun yang lalu

Or you could just not be a dick and download one issue at time or just the issues that interest you to save some bandwidth for the rest of us.

hmottestad15 tahun yang lalu

By all means, copy paste one at a time.

blinkingled15 tahun yang lalu

Downloads seem to have slowed to the point where one 27.9 Mb issue is taking 1hr and 7 min to download. Looks like all of HN is taking advantage of this promo!

BTW, the magazines are beautifully done, kudos!

Legion15 tahun yang lalu

I'm surprised to discover Hacker Monthly still exists, after the iPad app simply stopped serving up new issues 7 months ago. What's that about?

bearwithclaws15 tahun yang lalu

Was having some problem on AppStore in-app purchase submission (before Newsstand). Update to the app (along with new issues) coming soon.

pbiggar15 tahun yang lalu

I just bought the print subscription, after forgetting to the last few times I thought about it. Great marketing!

roinsh15 tahun yang lalu

I'm also getting a print subscription while thinking "excellent marketing campaign!".

dylanvee15 tahun yang lalu

Thank you, Lim Cheng Soon! As a student I really appreciate the free year-long subscription you offer.

zfran15 tahun yang lalu

Put a torrent up before your server melts down.

kinkora15 tahun yang lalu

...and his server has officially crashed. I recommend not running anymore automated scripts directed towards his server.

I'll try to chuck it onto mediafire once I get all the issues. Just missing 9 at this point.

gmcabrita15 tahun yang lalu

He's uploading them here: http://baconfile.com/bearwithclaws/

dmn00115 tahun yang lalu

Another download link with everything: http://www.filesonic.com/file/e9tf5hs

Will be removed when free period ends on the website.

p0larboy15 tahun yang lalu

Thanks Lim~! You just made my iBooks library look 10x more awesome http://imgur.com/0HM5p

modoc15 tahun yang lalu

I'm happy to mirror if anyone actually has the files.... I have tons of bw on a ton of big servers. [email protected]

dangrossman15 tahun yang lalu

I thought of doing it, and I can't get to the webpage to see if there's a special license... barring one, redistributing would be copyright infringement which I'm not cool with. The HM folks would have to offer.

modoc15 tahun yang lalu

Indeed. Sorry, my offer was intended to the folks who are actually making the offer, who have the steaming server:)

hkadejo15 tahun yang lalu

#!/bin/bash X=1 while [ $X -le 19 ] do if [ $X -lt 10 ]; then n="00$X" else n="0$X" fi wget "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue$n.zip X=$(( $X + 1 )) done

desireco4215 tahun yang lalu

I think they have a sweet problem of being waaay to popular. And everybody likes free stuff.

I meant to say they should use nginx, but apparently they are already using it, I guess that is why our connections are not getting dropped.

Anyway, nice gesture, thank you HN!

desireco4215 tahun yang lalu

I am getting all zips corrupted :(

bearwithclaws15 tahun yang lalu

Try downloading 'em again. Should be fine now.

wattjustin15 tahun yang lalu

As a monthly subscriber, this is great to see! Hopefully this will lead some other subscribing as I think the price is well worth it. Wow, I sound like a salesman, but genuinely just a fan of well done work for our community. Thanks!

evertonfuller15 tahun yang lalu

Not to plug, but welcome to upload mirrors (depending on the redist. rights of course) to http://Castle.so/ :)

gilligan15 tahun yang lalu

Hm yeah..cool offer. But we need one of two things..

1. server/bandwidth upgrade 2. time extension of the offer beyond 24h

Or actually.. ideally both :)

bearwithclaws15 tahun yang lalu

The offer is actually 48hr to cover all timezones for Christmas :)

beagledude15 tahun yang lalu

Thanks for the early Christmas present! I've been wanting to check out a subscription, being able to see the current content will push me over the edge.

desireco4215 tahun yang lalu

I could make a torrent but it is not mine to make it, I think HM owners should do this if they feel like it. I don't want to abuse their good will.

[deleted]15 tahun yang lalu

duck15 tahun yang lalu

It is Christmas early... thanks Lim! Hacker Monthly is a great resource for the HN community, keep up the great work with it.

jessepollak15 tahun yang lalu

awesome! any chance there's an easy way to bulk download all of them?

SquareWheel15 tahun yang lalu

It would be nice if a torrent was available, but they couldn't exactly have it expire after 24 hours.

joe_bleau15 tahun yang lalu

Here's the list for wget I came up with:

  http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-startupstories.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-thedebate.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue019.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue018.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue017.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue016.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue015.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue014.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue013.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue012.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue011.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue010.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue009.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue008.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue007.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue006.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue005.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue004.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue003.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue002.zip
  http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue001.zip

[deleted]15 tahun yang lalu

alexholehouse15 tahun yang lalu

I had never read Hacker Monthly. I will now probably subscribe.

user2415 tahun yang lalu

hacker monthly is a very nicely put together magazine, I've read a few issues on the kindle, it's well worth checking out.

nysv15 tahun yang lalu

It's down. Anyone have a mirror?

andreiursan15 tahun yang lalu

interesting that nobody posted Dropbox public URLs to the downloaded magazines.

jQueryIsAwesome15 tahun yang lalu

If you want to download them all with one click (works in Chrome): http://jsfiddle.net/nGatG/

funkah15 tahun yang lalu

If you manage to connect to the site, that is.