The Information
News publication in Money & business
People recommend The Information for highly respected, original tech and business reporting. Critics mainly point to its price, about $400 a year, which some find hard to justify for a single story.
People recommend The Information for highly respected, original tech and business reporting. Critics mainly point to its price, about $400 a year, which some find hard to justify for a single story.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 63%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Highly respected in its field
“The information is highly respected in this space.”
Comment from 25 Jun 2026 in “OpenAI to Stagger Release of GPT 5.6 at Request of U.S. Government” “'The Information' which is highly respected”
Comment from 25 Jun 2026 in “OpenAI to Stagger Release of GPT 5.6 at Request of U.S. Government” Solid, original reporting
“The original report came from The Information”
Comment from 1 May 2026 in “Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months” “IMO The Information does solid reporting.”
Comment from 24 Jan 2026 in “OpenAI to Take a Percentage from Customer AI-Assisted R&D Outcomes”
What people recommend instead
The same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial Times subscription | 32 | 19 | 63% | 11 | 2 yrs3 owners | — |
| The InformationThis page | 5 | 3 | 63% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it didn't read very well to me”
“The information is highly respected in this space.”
“'The Information' which is highly respected”
“a grounded history of how we've slowly gone from using smoke signals and drums to transmit information”
“Like I'm not paying $400/year to The Information just to unlock a one-off story.”
“I started finding it increasingly in worth paying for over the last year or two”
“The original report came from The Information”
“the key fact about "$500-$2000" per engineer does not appear there, and seems to be fabricated”
“IMO The Information does solid reporting.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.