Hacker News with Generative AI: Magazines

The Mad Magazine Basic Computer Program (meatfighter.com)
The cover of MAD magazine No. 258 from October 1985 announces a “special computer section featuring the MAD Computer Program”. Take careful note of the image displayed on the computer monitor.

Retro Computing, Humor, Magazines, 1980s

3 points by mmastrac 29 days ago | 0 comments

"Big 3" science fiction magazines including Asimov's and Analog acquired (jasonsanford.substack.com)
For other news from February, see my previous grapevine. This report is available free to the public. If you like my writings on genre issues, consider backing my Patreon.

Science Fiction, Magazines, Acquisitions

151 points by ilamont 32 days ago | 85 comments

List of DRM-Free Bookshops (libreture.com)
A regularly updated list of online shops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs.

DRM-Free, eBooks, Digital Comics, Magazines, RPGs

310 points by nafnlj 48 days ago | 89 comments

Classic Computer Magazines (archive.org)

Computing, History, Magazines, Archives

30 points by walterbell 109 days ago | 10 comments

Unix Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
The worst problems occur when people walk into their office and—without warning—find technology they never asked for.

Unix, History, Technology, Interviews, Magazines

45 points by rbanffy 125 days ago | 13 comments

Issues of '50s Magazine Galaxy Science Fiction (archive.org)

Science Fiction, Magazines, Archives

11 points by coloneltcb 127 days ago | 4 comments

FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine (goto10retro.com)
One of the things in my big Atari ST haul from a couple months ago was an issue of FaSTer disk magazine. I had thought that it was a sealed copy, but although it was still in its shrink-wrap, it was not actually sealed.

Retro Gaming, Atari ST, Magazines

108 points by rbanffy 136 days ago | 26 comments

Future Music magazine is closing after 32 years (musictech.com)
Future Music, the UK-based music production-focused print magazine, has released its last-ever issue.

Music, Magazines, UK

82 points by austinallegro 154 days ago | 42 comments

The last issue of The Embedded Muse (#500) (ganssle.com)
This is the last Embedded Muse

Embedded Systems, Magazines, Last Issues

15 points by phlipski 165 days ago | 3 comments

The Worst Magazine in America (currentaffairs.org)
Regular Current Affairs readers know that I have a tendency to make grumbling remarks about a magazine called The Atlantic. In fact, in our print edition we recently awarded The Atlantic a prize for “Worst Magazine In America.”

Journalism, Magazines, Criticism, The Atlantic

7 points by foobarqux 180 days ago | 0 comments

Popular Science Magazine Archives, May 1872-March 2009 (books.google.com)
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world.

Science, Magazines, Archives, History

144 points by bookofjoe 182 days ago | 56 comments

Make: Magazine and Maker faire open a community round (make.co)
I once explained to a friend that I was most proud that Make: magazine and Maker Faire had created a community of makers — how makers found each other through the magazine and events and how an even larger public could now find them.

Maker Culture, Community, Magazines, Events

4 points by zdw 191 days ago | 4 comments

Handwritten Magazine Without Generative AI (flyingcarcomputer.com)

Creative Projects, Generative AI, Magazines

35 points by zkirill 191 days ago | 13 comments

Vice Debuts a Subscription Product and Relaunches Its Print Magazine (adweek.com)
The digital media company Vice relaunched its print magazine and debuted its first subscription product on Tuesday, part of a broader renaissance of the publisher following its May 2023 bankruptcy filing.

Media, Magazines, Subscriptions, Print Media

5 points by r721 193 days ago | 2 comments

Micro: The magazine for TRS-80 owners (homeip.net)
It’s September, and that means Septandy. That makes today as good of a day as any to talk about 80 Microcomputing (later shortened to 80 Micro), one of the most successful of the early computer magazines. It also featured an innovation that changed the direction of the industry for good.

Retro Computing, Magazines, TRS-80

45 points by rbanffy 193 days ago | 30 comments

Omni, the Iconic Sci-Fi Magazine, Digitized in High-Resolution (2017) (openculture.com)
Omni, the Iconic Sci-Fi Magazine, Now Digitized in High-Resolution and Available Online

Sci-Fi, Magazines, Digitalization, Archives, History

58 points by walterbell 194 days ago | 6 comments

What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine (nrm.org)

Humor, Magazines, Art, Culture

245 points by bookofjoe 195 days ago | 115 comments

The Magazine for Mercenaries Enters Polite Society (newyorker.com)
In the early nineteen-eighties, Susan Katz Keating was living in California, working as a freelance journalist with a side gig waiting tables. On a newsstand, she came across _Soldier of Fortune_, a monthly magazine infamous for its gonzo war reporting and its gun-for-hire classified ads. “I wanted to write about mercenaries,” she recalled recently. So she placed an advertisement in the publication. “You paid by the word, and I was quite young and didn’t have any money. The ad said, ‘Are you a mercenary? Contact S. Katz.’ And then I gave my home address.”

Journalism, Mercenaries, History, Magazines

35 points by mitchbob 214 days ago | 24 comments

Upsetting Magazine #77 (2023) (markdomowicz.com)

Art, Magazines, Design

58 points by akkartik 240 days ago | 4 comments

Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre (goto10retro.com)

Retro Computing, Gaming, Reviews, Technology, Magazines

100 points by rbanffy 290 days ago | 83 comments

Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (1984–2005) (gingerbeardman.com)