# AP News

6 Hacker News commenters recommended AP News and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a free, factual source of world news with little political spin and no paywall. One critic says it reads like US News.

## Why people recommend it

- Low political bias and spin (2 comments): "I use Reuters and AP for world news, they have commercial reasons to at least combat bias" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45847608)) "AP, Reuters and BBC are highly factual with little or no political spin." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884343))
- Free to read, no paywall (1 comments): "I use apnews.com, no paywall." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126962))
- Read instead of CNN (1 comments): "I've started just reading AP for what I might read CNN for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096712))

## What people warn about

- Reads like US News (1 comments): "apnews reads to me like USnews" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402903))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Reuters](https://hackerapproved.com/p/reuters.md): 23 recommend
- [Associated Press](https://hackerapproved.com/p/associated-press.md): 10 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AP News", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ap/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).