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The Prize

UPDATE 6/1/2016: The 3 winners were announced on the Hacker Bits email list. Thank you for all that participated! 🙂

This month (May 2016) we’re holding a contest promotion giveaway.

3 lucky subscribers will get a physical copy of the June issue of Hacker Bits magazine (total value ~$60).

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The Winner

This contest ends May 31, 2016 at 5pm PDT. We’ll announce the winners on the mailing list.

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Our Magazine

HACKER BITS is the monthly magazine that gives you the hottest technology and startup stories straight from Hacker News. We select from the top voted stories for you and publish them in an easy-to-read magazine format.

Our Contributors

(just a few)

  • Jeff Atwood

    Jeff is a software developer, author, blogger and entrepreneur. He is known for the programming blog Coding Horror, and is the co-founder of the Q&A website Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange Network.

  • Joe Armstrong

    Inventor of the programming language Erlang. PhD in computer science, and Adjunct Professor of computer Science at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

  • Heidi Roizen

    Heidi is the Operating Partner at DFJ, a lecturer on Entrepreneurship at Stanford, and a recovering entrepreneur.

  • Jacques Mattheij

    Inventor of live-streaming-video on the web, currently mostly active as interim CEO/CTO and doing technical due-diligence for top-flight VCs.

  • Matt Mazur

    Matt is a developer at Automattic where he focuses on growth for WordPress.com. He currently lives in Orlando, Florida, with his wife and two kids.

  • Ossi Hanhinen

    Writing web stuff since he was in elementary school. He is always trying to learn something new and interesting — nowadays surrounded by the brilliant people of Futurice.


Our FAQ

Our Team

We (Ray and Maureen) are a husband and wife team from Redmond, Washington.


Ray Li

Ray is a software engineer and data enthusiast who has been blogging at rayli.net for over a decade. He loves to learn, teach and grow. You’ll usually find him wrangling data, programming and lifehacking.

Maureen Ker

Maureen is an editor, writer, and enthusiastic cook and prolific collector of useless kitchen gadgets. She is the author of 3 books and over 100 articles, and her work has appeared in the New York Daily News, and various adult and children’s publications.

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