Tmp.0ut Volume 5

58 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by ghuntley
(tmpout.sh)

20 Comments

glimshe

2 hours ago

A small window to how we used to spread deep computer topics in the 90s. No substacks or X posts. Very cool.

sph

an hour ago

No boring themes either. There was more than the corporate bland aesthetic.

sph

an hour ago

Seeing stuff like this reminds me why I got into computers in the late 90s. Human ingenuity paired with love for the art and the craft.

Good to have a reminder that it’s software engineering that has changed, not me.

atannen

15 hours ago

Good interview with McIlroy. Fix this: Goldstine, as in the citations, not Goldstein, as in the body text.

Also, the text mentions CDC 1620. I don't think this existed. Either it was IBM 1620 or CDC something else.

I'd be just as happy with clear readable type, but the content is the thing.

guerrilla

12 hours ago

Wow, it's been a while since anyone published anything this interesting.

jenders

12 hours ago

Agreed. Love stuff like this. Keep it comin’

bargainbin

4 days ago

Love the aesthetic. There was another ezine like this years ago focused on cybersecurity, I’ve forgotten its name now but the ASCII art involved was top notch.

Does anyone have any idea? It was definitely when Twitter was still Twitter as I remember reaching out to them about their ASCII art.

mckirk

4 days ago

Maybe you're thinking of Phrack [1]? I wonder if there'll be another edition of it, and if yes what it would look like, now that the AIpocalypse seems to have reached security research...

[1]: https://phrack.org

guitmz

4 days ago

there will be a new Phrack this year still!

mckirk

4 days ago

Thank you, that is very reassuring to know :D

(and interactions like these are part of the reason why I <3 HN)

bargainbin

4 days ago

Not Phrack but I did find it, ThugCrowd [1]!

[1]: https://thugcrowd.com/archive.html

Edit to add, apparently one of the ThugCrowd people is part of tmp.0ut so that would explain why my mind immediately went there.

debo_

10 hours ago

The interview with Doug McIlroy is incredible. It's almost worth a link all on its own.

iberator

14 hours ago

Very cool and BBS/hacking style. BUT almost useless on mobile :(

I prefer to use a PC but that kind of articles are perfect to read when commuting.

You could just use <br> instead of fixed length words per line.

russellbeattie

11 minutes ago

Agreed. Though apparently you're being downvoted for a legitimate issue. I'm laying down using my phone and it's not particularly enjoyable to read.

It's 2026 - the site can look like an old-skool zine being displayed with monospace fonts on a computer monitor and easily still have alternate formats for mobile devices. Not having it is just pure laziness.

I wouldn't mind if Reader Mode could deal with the text, but it can't. Oh well.