Hacker News Reader

Comment by gnastygnorc | Hacker News Reader

I believe all paywalled content becomes free to read two weeks after initial publication

Ah ok. I should still probably sub, I tend to read LWN when it pops up here and never really gave it a moments thought before :O

In my humble opinion it is definitely worth it. All people over at LWN do tremendous job and should really be supported.

I haven’t even used Linux for a few years now. Still pay for LWN. It’s so worth supporting.

I can honestly say the resources at LWN have helped my career immensely. The in depth series on topics like namespaces and io_uring directly allowed me to tackle some hard projects - without those articles I would have steered clear of "magic i don't understand" and the relevant projects would have suffered.

It's definitely worth subscribing if you have the means (and the low cost of subscriptions suggests a lot of readers here have the means).

I'd agree that often with new features and subsytems recent LWN articles are the best documentation around.

Highly recommend.

Just to show support for corbet and his team. He could keep the articles paywalled forever, but is making them free after a week. Becoming a paying member is our way to say thank you for his fair attitude (and keeping ads at minimum level).

I work at totaly different field in IT, most articles are just "wow, that's interesting" for me and - I still keep LWN's subscriptionm and it is the only one I have.

It's (usually?) less than that.

https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn

> Must I subscribe to read the Weekly Edition?

> No, the Weekly Edition becomes freely available to all readers one week after its publication.

Indeed. They even provide a mailing list you can subscribe to which will notify you whenever an article goes free. I think you need to have an account with them firstly though.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com