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Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by pncnmnp »

If you're interested in retro stuff, I highly recommend checking out Byte Magazine's archive at https://worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm. They have issues dating from 1975 to 1994, and the search functionality is pretty good.

While not all of their content is of high quality, there are some fascinating gems hidden in there. For instance, their February 1992 issue has a section on Archie, one of the earliest internet search engines:

> For many people, particularly programmers and engineers, the Internet means "info- booty": shareware and freeware source code, documents, graphics, and data sets available by file transfer downloads and from E-mail servers. Sites like UUNET and The World each have several gigabytes' worth of publicly available archives. These are but two of the hundreds of sites with archives accessible via these methods. Even admitting a fair amount of redundancy among archives, it still adds up to about 100 gigabytes, and new sites and offerings are coming on-line every day.

> With so many different archives, it can be hard to figure out where (and at what network address) to access the items you want. If you don't know what you want beyond compilers or CP/M applications, it's even more overwhelming.

> The "archie group" at McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) has one solution to the problem: archie (archive without the v), the Internet Archive Server Listing Service (for access, see reference 2). Archie is a central database of information about Internet-accessible archive sites, plus server programs that provide access by telnet, anonymous file transfer protocol (FTP), E-mail, and the Prospero distributed computer system.

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/90s/1992/Byte-199... (page 147)

Also, there is Communications of the ACM (https://dl.acm.org/magazine/cacm). Many of their articles are free to read.

Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by clmay »

clmay wrote: post #20

A bit more tech and tech-impact focused, but I've enjoyed https://logicmag.io .

You may also like Emergence Magazine. It's significantly more humanities/culture oriented but similarity wide-ranging and imaginative.

Come to think of it, I think imagination is one of the qualities that makes Quanta so magical. Ostensibly it's a magazine about the interactions of formal and natural sciences, but they're not afraid to include a bold dash of imagination.

Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by ghqst »

y0ssar1an wrote: post #17
wahnfrieden wrote: post #4

https://libcom.org

> The name libcom is an abbreviation of "libertarian communism" It blows my mind that some people think communism hasn't been tried enough times. "Yes it failed 999 times before, but THIS flavor of communism will definitely work!"

the biggest argument against this is that communist countries still achieve great things in the face of MASSIVE setbacks and sanctions from capitalist countries with lots of power. Yet after an initial period of food insecurity, these nations tend to do great for a while. For example, the CIA reported that the Soviet diet had less calories and was more nutritious than the American diet.
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