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  • Hacker News
  • wow, actual hackers
    by nekooooo
  • Very cool and BBS/hacking style. BUT almost useless on mobile :(

    I prefer to use a PC but that kind of articles are perfect to read when commuting.

    You could just use <br> instead of fixed length words per line.

    by iberator
  • Agreed. Though apparently you're being downvoted for a legitimate issue. I'm laying down using my phone and it's not particularly enjoyable to read.

    It's 2026 - the site can look like an old-skool zine being displayed with monospace fonts on a computer monitor and easily still have alternate formats for mobile devices. Not having it is just pure laziness.

    I wouldn't mind if Reader Mode could deal with the text, but it can't. Oh well.

    by russellbeattie
  • The interview with Doug McIlroy is incredible. It's almost worth a link all on its own.
    by debo_
  • The mixtape is great. Not sure what genre this would be considered but it's very interesting

    https://soundcloud.com/blotter1/blotter_tmp0ut_2026

    by NDlurker
  • I'm sure someone has a more precise idea on what it's called, but I would lean towards minimal DnB.
    by nanoxide
  • Feels a bit like a waste that the lovely diskmag interface doesn't seem to have a play button for this mixtape. Hope they add that in future issues.
    by skrebbel
  • Direct link, no tracking: https://soundcloud.com/blotter1/blotter_tmp0ut_2026/
    by crtasm
  • Love the aesthetic. There was another ezine like this years ago focused on cybersecurity, I’ve forgotten its name now but the ASCII art involved was top notch.

    Does anyone have any idea? It was definitely when Twitter was still Twitter as I remember reaching out to them about their ASCII art.

    by bargainbin
  • Maybe you're thinking of Phrack [1]? I wonder if there'll be another edition of it, and if yes what it would look like, now that the AIpocalypse seems to have reached security research...

    [1]: https://phrack.org

    by mckirk
  • - i like visual

    - can we get a whole magazine that explains ideas like this? https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/

    by vivzkestrel
  • Wow, it's been a while since anyone published anything this interesting.
    by guerrilla
  • Agreed. Love stuff like this. Keep it comin’
    by jenders
  • Good interview with McIlroy. Fix this: Goldstine, as in the citations, not Goldstein, as in the body text.

    Also, the text mentions CDC 1620. I don't think this existed. Either it was IBM 1620 or CDC something else.

    I'd be just as happy with clear readable type, but the content is the thing.

    by atannen
  • This one was good:

    Interview: Doug McIlroy: https://tmpout.sh/5/2.html

    by Rendello
  • That was an amazing read.
    by kenanfyi
  • A small window to how we used to spread deep computer topics in the 90s. No substacks or X posts. Very cool.
    by glimshe
  • No boring themes either. There was more than the corporate bland aesthetic.
    by sph
  • ``` How can people write big systems in general?

    We do, but as you say, they're often debugged into existence rather than cleanly designed into existence. ```

    by joshuaS98
  • Seeing stuff like this reminds me why I got into computers in the late 90s. Human ingenuity paired with love for the art and the craft.

    Good to have a reminder that it’s software engineering that has changed, not me.

    by sph
  • Things were less load-bearing back then.
    by yesitcan