Paged Out!
pagedout.institute · Group blog · on HN since 2019
Paged Out! is a free online zine of short articles on programming, hacking, and retro computing, released as PDF issues.
What HN saysCommenters recommend it as a modern magazine capturing the joy of programming from Dr. Dobb's and BYTE, and say 2600 fans will like it.
50HN people shared it
28linked it in comments
35stories submitted
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3 months agolast shared
2019people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1Paged Out19 people · 1.3K points · first shared 2019 · 82 comments on HN
- 2Paged Out – experimental (one article == one page) free zine6 people · 33 points · first shared 2019 · 8 comments on HN
- 3Paged Out: Issue 4 [pdf]5 people · 30 points · first shared 2024 · 2 comments on HN
- 4Call for Pages for Paged Out5 people · 7 points · first shared 2019 · 2 comments on HN
- 5PagedOut Issue 2 Out [pdf]5 people · 6 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 6Paged Out #6 [pdf]3 people · 311 points · first shared 2025 · 53 comments on HN
- 7Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]3 people · 6 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
- 8Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf]2 people · 305 points · first shared 2025 · 24 comments on HN
- 9Paged Out #4 is out2 people · 16 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 10Paged Out – Issue #92 people · 4 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 11Paged Out #5 – hacker zine release [pdf]1 people · 38 points · first shared 2024 · 6 comments on HN
- 12Paged Out Issue #41 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 13Paged Out #9 [pdf]1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 14An audio modem in 5 lines of Awk1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 15Paged Out Magazine – Issue 3 [pdf]1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
jhbadger · 2026-04-09
I'd recommend Paged Out
https://pagedout.institute/
And PoCoGTFO
https://alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
These are free modern magazines that capture the feeling of joy of programming that Dobbs and BYTE used to have
vunderba · 2025-12-05
I too have been throwing messages in bottles into a silent sea for a pretty long time, but I think I'm okay with that. It doesn't help if you also have difficulty adhering to quintessential blog SEO best practices.
1. Consistent theme - A diverse set of interests and a lethal dose of ADD make this virtually impossible
2. Consistent updates - My articles tend to be rather unusual, and I'll often combine them with customized interactive layouts. Even a monthly post would be pretty ambitious for me.
On a slightly related note, I'm hoping that zines [1] see a resurgence in popularity as I could see it being a good point of entry towards possibly gaining readership for those whose sites are inadvertently running in stealth mode.
[1] - Such as Paged Out (https://pagedout.institute)
yu3zhou4 · 2025-10-04
You can subscribe https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pagedout-notifications (link from the bottom of the page https://pagedout.institute/)
amenghra · 2021-03-17
A classic, been around since 1985.
https://github.com/deadbits/Zines used to be an archive of tons of similar ezines, the repo has been disabled ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Some of the zines it used to have include HITB, PhineasFisher, TeaMp0isoN, ZF0, anti-anti-sec, anti-sec, b4b0, dikline, el8, h0no, htp, owned and exposed, phrack, pocorgtfo, uninformed.
On a more modern note, https://pagedout.institute/ is great.
isaac21259 · 2020-11-22
https://pagedout.institute/
It's an online zine focused on programming and hacking. If you like 2600 you'll love pagedout.
gynvael · 2019-08-12
Sorry, that's one thing we probably cannot fix - the whole idea is that the laying out of the articles is done by authors (not us - the publisher) and the authors have (almost) full control over it.
This means that while we can recommend fonts, we can't really enforce them in this model.
I know the idea for the authors to do the layout is at least 'experimental' (that's the word I prefer to use), but it also gives one more space to be creative (and makes it easier for us from a certain perspective too). See also https://pagedout.institute/?page=faq.php#layout
n1xis10t · 2026-05-22
You’re Canadian? That’s pretty hilarious, I am too. It must be something they put in the Timbits.
For promotion, I’d recommend picking the most technically interesting part of your implementation, something that’s really clever, and then making a one page writeup for Paged Out magazine about it (https://pagedout.institute/). They regularly have interesting stuff to read, and they have a pretty decent amount of readers. You could write something longer and send it in to 2600 magazine too, they’d probably be interested even if it was an overview of the project.
Maybe the engine should be bigger first though so people are more enthused when they try it. I think 1 billion pages is around where a search engine starts to seem more normal: that’s about how much Marginalia has. How much space on disk does your index take up right now? Would you say the bottleneck is more the hard drive space or the crawling speed?
Rendello · 2026-07-27
For those interested, anyone can write a (one-page) article:
https://pagedout.institute/?page=cfp.php
burkaman · 2026-02-19
They have both, see the bottom of the home page: https://pagedout.institute/
impl · 2025-12-02
Too bad they don't take security so seriously themselves.
https://pagedout.institute/?page=/etc/passwd
;-)
grimgrin · 2025-12-02
if you're asking "how do i easily buy prints", that's under the prints link atop, and you'll ultimately end up at lulu
https://pagedout.institute/?page=prints.php
https://www.lulu.com/search?contributor=Paged+Out%21+Institute
I discovered it easily on desktop, idk about mobile
Foxboron · 2025-12-02
Paged Out are looking for more articles for the next issue. Information here: https://pagedout.institute/?page=cfp.php
jcrubino · 2024-01-01
Paged Out! Institute https://pagedout.institute/
# What is Paged Out!?
Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.
It's made by the community for the community. And it's not-for-profit (though in time, we hope it will be self-sustained) - this means that the issues will always be free to download, share, and print.
> Reminiscent of the vintage original Freaker/Hacker Publications, though clearly devoted to one page technical articles.
palashkulsh · 2023-12-19
Found it on hn just now
https://pagedout.institute/?page=issues.php
aspenmayer · 2023-12-18
More info about the 4 year delay, changes to the management/publication structure, and more are on the blog, which perhaps the post should link to instead:
https://pagedout.institute/?page=blog.php#entry-2023-12-18
tester756 · 2022-02-06
Hmm, there were only a few editions, but
https://pagedout.institute/
>Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.
popitter · 2021-12-17
This [1] publication argues that `interface
{}` should be replaced with `yolo`.
[1] Cornelius Diekmann, “Looping with Untyped Lambda Calculus in Python and Go,” Paged Out!, vol. 2, p. 22, Nov. 2019.
https://pagedout.institute/
https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/papers/diekman…
nfoxai · 2021-10-05
Principal sec feels off, but do you perhaps mean "Paged Out!"? The description rings true-ish.
https://pagedout.institute/
opticnerve · 2021-01-25
Paged Out - https://pagedout.institute/
Rafale - https://www.rafale.org
lovecg · 2019-12-27
Also this was recently on HN and looks interesting: https://pagedout.institute
guiambros · 2024-06-01
Site here: https://pagedout.institute/
gwern · 2026-02-23
I enjoyed the reward-hacking one: https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf#page=59
mrled · 2026-02-19
They've got a new web viewer in this issue that can be used to link to individual articles and might be nicer than reading a PDF on some screens: https://pagedout.institute/webview.php?issue=8&page=1
jstrieb · 2026-02-19
The article I submitted (page 64) has an HTML tag in the title, and seems to have broken the web viewer :(
Note that you can link to pages in a PDF with a hash like #page=64 (for example) in the URL.
https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf#page=64
kelsey98765431 · 2024-11-19
https://pagedout.institute/download/
Directory is open, plenty of neat stuff to browse. Thanks for the release!
serhack_ · 2024-06-07
Paged Out! is a free, experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene and other similar topics.
It's made by the community for the community - the project was created by Gynvael Coldwind with multiple folks helping. And it's not-for-profit (though it is managed by a company – see the bottom of this page) - this means that the issues will always be free to download, share and print.
The last issue: https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_004_beta1.pdf
masot · 2025-12-09
Playing with 'minimal' ways to add templates/generics/reflection to C has become a bit of a dumb hobby of mine (in this case shared/enabled by Akshay!).
Gamma was an experiment in templates without having to parse C. This led to some big annoyances that I guess aren't mentioned on that site but are in the PagedOut page[1]: when you instantiate a template "bar::[struct foo]" Gamma does a pretty bad job of knowing to copy the definition of "struct foo" (and all type definitions that "struct foo" depends on) from the caller into the template before compiling the instantiated template. (It gets even worse with circular dependencies, e.g., a "struct tree_node" that contains a "list::[struct tree_node]".)
More recently I've been writing MaC[2], which solves those problems by fully parsing the "header file" for each template. So it knows about all of the types in the program and can copy them between template instantiations as needed, but in the "main body" of the template you can use arbitrary GNU-C features. This has been a lot more reliable. As a test program for it I'm currently in the middle of writing an LR[k] parser generator[3] in MaC.
The big thing that gets annoying about all of these "don't-parse-the-code" approaches is there's no good way to do type inference. So you can't do multiple dispatch, e.g., have "print(x->foo(bar));" forwarded to the 'right' print function based on the type of its argument. (Actually, I've experimented with doing dynamic dispatch based on…