Students: Read Hacker Monthly for Free

Want to keep up with the latest ideas, advice, and interesting stories shared by some of the best tech and entrepreneurial bloggers today?  Hacker Monthly is a new PDF and print magazine based on the best news from Hacker News, and now thanks to a new student offer, any students can read it for free!  Here’s how.

Intro to Hacker News

One of the best resources for entrepreneurs, programmers, tech students, and anyone fascinated by the world of computers and startups is Hacker News, an amazingly high quality forum ran and moderated by Y Combinator.  Anyone can join in and share their thoughts about the articles and questions shared, and the discussions are often very informational and educational.  Plus, the Hacker News community is very helpful, and I’ve received many tips from questions I’ve posted on it.

There’s only one problem with any tech forum: it takes time to keep up with.  Several months ago, Lim Cheng Soon of Netizens Media began producing a beautiful magazine version of the best articles and advice shared in Hacker News that month: Hacker Monthly.  While you can read the articles for free online, Hacker Monthly brings them together in a beautiful layout that makes it easy to read, on your computer or in print.

Again, it Pays to be a Student

For many of us, though, the biggest objection to Hacker Monthly is the price.  It takes time and effort to curate these articles and get them laid out in a readable and beautiful fashion, but when you’re buying textbooks and paying for ever higher classes, there’s not much money left to go around.  That’s where the new student promotion comes in.  Hacker Monthly is now offering a free one year digital subscription to all college students around the world.  Now you can keep up with the latest tips and advice and hopefully learn more than you are from your classes directly from some of the most articulate techies in the world.

If you’re not sure if Hacker Monthly is for you, feel free to check out the free PDF versions of the first three issues of Hacker Monthly.  You’ll be able to read them in all of their PDF glory, just like the print version, for free.  You can also check out the full archive of back issues, which includes links to the real Hacker News discussion links featuring the articles that were included in the magazine.  This is a great resource everyone can take advantage of, as it includes links to many well written articles that you can read for free online.

I’ve found the Hacker News site to be very useful and educational over the past months, and only wish I’d come across it sooner.  Now, with Hacker Monthly, I hope to learn even more from the network without having to check it every day!

Signup for a Free Student Subscription of Hacker Monthly

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