All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

by yanowitz • 15 years ago

247 98 15 years ago

user24• 15 years ago

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

jessepollak• 15 years ago

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

joe_bleau• 15 years ago

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

SquareWheel• 15 years ago

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

blinkingled• 15 years ago

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!

_ques• 15 years ago

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

DannyPage• 15 years ago

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!)

sublimepua3• 15 years ago

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.

philfreo• 15 years ago

In parallel:

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

sublimepua3• 15 years ago

this guy's servers must be crying.

Dobbs• 15 years ago

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

anthonyb2• 15 years ago

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

No good deed goes unpunished, indeed.

davvid• 15 years ago

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

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

;-)

jacquesm• 15 years ago

Good deeds rarely go unpunished.

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

Merry Christmas to you too!

bearwithclaws5• 15 years ago

Happy Christmas, Jacques!

sciurus• 15 years ago

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

dorkitude• 15 years ago

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

sublimepua3• 15 years ago

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.

jodrellblank• 15 years ago

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

funkah• 15 years ago

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

wattjustin• 15 years ago

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!

hmottestad2• 15 years ago

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;

callahad2• 15 years ago

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

_rs• 15 years ago

Or use homebrew and get wget ;)

rbritton• 15 years ago

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

amirmc• 15 years ago

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

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

angrycoder• 15 years ago

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.

hmottestad2• 15 years ago

By all means, copy paste one at a time.

gilligan• 15 years ago

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 :)

bearwithclaws5• 15 years ago

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

zfran2• 15 years ago

Put a torrent up before your server melts down.

modoc2• 15 years ago

I'm happy to mirror if anyone actually has the files.... I have tons of bw on a ton of big servers. devon@sparkred.com

dangrossman• 15 years ago

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.

modoc2• 15 years ago

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

desireco423• 15 years ago

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!

desireco423• 15 years ago

I am getting all zips corrupted :(

bearwithclaws5• 15 years ago

Try downloading 'em again. Should be fine now.

MikeCapone• 15 years ago

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..

artursapek3• 15 years ago

Megaupload is terrible. Please encourage people to use Mediafire.

http://www.mediafire.com

mappu2• 15 years ago

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.

J_Darnley• 15 years ago

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

templaedhel• 15 years ago

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).

dylanvee• 15 years ago

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

desireco423• 15 years ago

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.

pbiggar• 15 years ago

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

roinsh• 15 years ago

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

evertonfuller• 15 years ago

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

tghw• 15 years ago

He posted a snap of his server logs:

http://lockerz.com/s/167554725

Ouch.

gacba• 15 years ago

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.

jqueryin• 15 years ago

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.

mathrawka• 15 years ago

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

thebigshane• 15 years ago

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

nysv• 15 years ago

It's down. Anyone have a mirror?

BlackJack• 15 years ago

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...

ryanbraganza2• 15 years ago

019 is up too

fauldsh3• 15 years ago

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

regomodo• 15 years ago

for I in {00..19};

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

done

6ren• 15 years ago

  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.

pvilchez• 15 years ago

015 is up now as well.

Toddward2• 15 years ago

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.

jules• 15 years ago

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

jvc26• 15 years ago

014 as well now.

kinkora3• 15 years ago

...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.

gmcabrita• 15 years ago

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

jQueryIsAwesome• 15 years ago

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

kinkora3• 15 years ago

Hope this takes some load off his servers:

Edit - changed links to the s3 servers

Issue 1 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 2 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 3 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 4 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 5 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 6 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 7 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 8 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 9 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 10 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 11 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 12 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 13 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 14 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 15 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 16 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 17 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 18 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Issue 19 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo...

Thedebate - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?644hhgmk7ao8qgj

Startupstories - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vfhm4a6iqs2fj5j

bearwithclaws5• 15 years ago

Everything is on S3 now (but thanks anyway).

kinkora3• 15 years ago

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

zfran2• 15 years ago

The special editions don't seem to be up.

toyg• 15 years ago

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

fauldsh3• 15 years ago

Everything in one zip:

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

FreeWorld• 15 years ago

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

navpan• 15 years ago

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

callahad2• 15 years ago

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

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

fauldsh3• 15 years ago

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.

hfz• 15 years ago

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

Legion• 15 years ago

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?

bearwithclaws5• 15 years ago

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

andreiursan• 15 years ago

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

beagledude• 15 years ago

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.

alexholehouse• 15 years ago

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

duck• 15 years ago

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

p0larboy• 15 years ago

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

dmn001• 15 years ago

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

Will be removed when free period ends on the website.

hkadejo• 15 years ago

#!/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

All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

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