Why “LWN” is being discussed
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Bu they are missing out on the long tail of people who might subscribe at lower prices. Especially for something called a starving student tier (no doubt to shame people into pa…
by account42 · Sep 3, 2026
Only 200 subscriber months at their previous lowest tier for a 28 TiB drive. How much storage do you think a text-heavy site like LWN needs?
by account42 · Sep 3, 2026
LWN is a poster child for something that could be entirely static pre-generated HTML for literally all unauthenticated requests at a server cost lower than serving and verifying…
by account42 · Sep 3, 2026
I'm happy to see such a positive response from the HN crowd! I'm not affiliated with lwn I'm just a subscriber. It looks like a few people have subscribed/renewed from this…
by rwky · Sep 2, 2026
LWN is a tightly run site for preserving the open source status quo hierarchies. They don't want discussion.
by 71928376 · Sep 2, 2026
til: lwn offers their content in `epub`. I been self hosting many tools, one them an ebook manager called `kavita`, and downloading the epub format and consuming it via kavita w…
by xyst · Sep 2, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "lwn" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "lwn" over time.
LWN may refer to:Labour Women's Network, an organization associated with the Labour Party (UK) LWN.net, a computing webzine LandWarNet, the United States Army's contribution to the Global Information Grid Live Well Network, a television network Shirak Airport, Armenia Read more on Wikipedia