Hacker Monthly: It’s the Best of the Internet, Printed Out, and It’s Turning a Profit

Lim Cheng Soon’s story defies convention. It’s a story about the value of curation, the value of community, and, for some, the lasting value of print. Lim is addicted to Hacker News, the popular social news site, and he wanted to solve his own problem of information overload—“to be able to go offline and not to miss out,” he says.

So he decided to start gathering up some of the most popular posts from the site and printing them in a magazine he called Hacker Monthly. Twenty-one issues later, the magazine has about 4,700 subscribers worldwide, Lim said.