HACKER Q&A
📣 kovac

Printed Computer Science Magazines?


I'm looking for printed computer science, computer engineering or Linux magazines. Im not interested in latest tech gadgets and popular science or tech. Im looking for more technical magazines targeting engineers and scientists. Any recommendations?


  👤 bgc Accepted Answer ✓
Communications of the ACM - https://cacm.acm.org/ - has a mix of industry news, columns, and research articles.

Membership in ACM includes a print subscription, I’m not sure if one is available separately.


👤 pasttense01

👤 eshack94
Not sure if this has been suggested, but I recommend Communications of the ACM (see https://www.acm.org/ for more info).

Requires a membership, but the membership is actually pretty valuable and includes access to learning resources and more. They send out printed magazines with thoughtful discussion and technical articles.


👤 slicktux
I highly recommend PoC||GTFO…you can buy the collection of essays from no starch…or download from here for the latest and greatest: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/

Also, 2600 The Hacker Quarterly…you can find at your local Barnes or PDF on their website


👤 PenguinCoder
You may be interested in 2600 - https://www.2600.com/

I still get these delivered in print and enjoy reading them. It's not as in depth technical as you might expect for certain topics. Really approachable and good reading for a techie.


👤 revolvingocelot
It's probably cheating to suggest PoC||GTFO, which "comes in print" [0] in the form of a post-facto, increasingly outdated omnibus...

[0] https://nostarch.com/gtfo


👤 hdjjhhvvhga
As for Linux, https://www.linux-magazine.com/ - they also have special editions, some of them quite interesting, some less so.

👤 theshrike79
It's in Finnish only, but Skrolli is an amazing magazine: https://skrolli.fi

Basically people got fed up with the state of current Finnish tech reporting (mostly about computers) and started their own magazine with content that doesn't age.

There are no reviews about current tech or tech-adjacent stuff, just articles about things like retro computing or different languages etc.


👤 GianFabien
It's been ages since I've browser the news-stands. I recall having seen "Wired" as a printed magazine and Popular Science. Sadly the classics like "Byte", "EDN" are long gone.

You might want to join the IEEE, they still publish some fantastic printed magazines.


👤 grubbs
If you're near Microcenter they always have a bunch in the checkout lanes. Always fun to browse. Plenty of Linux stuff last time I was there.

👤 vba616
Dr. Dobb's Journal used to be good.

👤 x86hacker1010
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