All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

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...

[+] fauldsh|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] Toddward|14 years ago|reply

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.

[+] regomodo|14 years ago|reply

for I in {00..19};

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

done

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[+] ryanbraganza|14 years ago|reply

019 is up too

[+] pvilchez|14 years ago|reply

015 is up now as well.

[+] jvc26|14 years ago|reply

014 as well now.

[+] MikeCapone|14 years ago|reply

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..

[+] artursapek|14 years ago|reply

Megaupload is terrible. Please encourage people to use Mediafire.

http://www.mediafire.com

[+] templaedhel|14 years ago|reply

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).

[+] _ques|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] sciurus|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] jacquesm|14 years ago|reply

Good deeds rarely go unpunished.

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

Merry Christmas to you too!

[+] DannyPage|14 years ago|reply

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!)

[+] philfreo|14 years ago|reply

In parallel:

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

[+] sublimepua|14 years ago|reply

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|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] tghw|14 years ago|reply

He posted a snap of his server logs:

http://lockerz.com/s/167554725

Ouch.

[+] gacba|14 years ago|reply

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.

[+] thebigshane|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] hmottestad|14 years ago|reply

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;

[+] callahad|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] amirmc|14 years ago|reply

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

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

[+] angrycoder|14 years ago|reply

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.

[+] blinkingled|14 years ago|reply

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!

[+] Legion|14 years ago|reply

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?

[+] bearwithclaws|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] pbiggar|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] roinsh|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] dylanvee|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] zfran|14 years ago|reply

Put a torrent up before your server melts down.

[+] kinkora|14 years ago|reply

...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|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] dmn001|14 years ago|reply

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

Will be removed when free period ends on the website.

[+] p0larboy|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] modoc|14 years ago|reply

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

[+] hkadejo|14 years ago|reply

#!/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

[+] desireco42|14 years ago|reply

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!

[+] desireco42|14 years ago|reply

I am getting all zips corrupted :(

[+] wattjustin|14 years ago|reply

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!

[+] evertonfuller|14 years ago|reply

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

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