Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by sciurus | Hacker News Reader

Full thread

sciurus·

Since this is on the front page of HN, I'll share a more recent and more detailed article from LWN about this.

http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/641275/43136cb3c973ec6c/

Consider subscribing to LWN!

View on HN

A LWN subscription is a must for anyone serious about the open source systems infrastructure in place today. While overall Linux-centric, a lot of the content in LWN's Weekly Issue deals with the greater community context (policy, legal, etc.) or with tooling also in use by others (e.g. toolchains, or culture enablement stuff like Nathan Willis' tremendously great coverage of the typography / font stack / localization engineering beat). It's not just a must because reading it is worth your time, but also because it's a venue worth supporting for the continued health of the ecosystem a lot of us exist in.

I must say that I agree, and I'm personally _very_ fond of their business model.

Having the articles become free no matter what, and having articles of a level of quality that they _Repeatedly_ get referenced in papers on computer science, is a great feat.

Are there any other magazines online that have a good, weekly/bi-weekly posting schedule of multiple, high-quality and on-topic articles? I've seen ones related to photography, but not that have the same focus and high quality as LWN.

Heh, I came here to do exactly the same. I figure one free link per year on HN is about right for Manic Supporter level subscription, but you beat me to it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com