# The New Yorker

26 Hacker News commenters recommended The New Yorker and 10 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 10 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended for long-form journalism, investigative reporting and fiction, reasonably priced with little advertising. Common caveat: many pieces are long, drawn out and pretentious.

## Why people recommend it

- Quality long-form and investigative journalism (5 comments): "High quality long-form journalism and short fiction with minimal advertising" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387316)) "reasonably priced and regularly includes excellent investigative journalism" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670013)) "Atlantic and New Yorker my two favorite publications for long form articles" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239762))
- Strong fiction and short stories (3 comments): "I'm fond of the New Yorker's fiction section but there is this genre of "long-form writing"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049340)) "High quality long-form journalism and short fiction with minimal advertising" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46387316)) "I generally dislike short stories but really liked both of those." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292634))
- Reasonably priced and worth subscribing to (3 comments): "Subscribing to support journalism you care about is a real public service, in my view." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685217)) "reasonably priced and regularly includes excellent investigative journalism" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670013)) "makes me glad I recently subscribed to the New Yorker" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765515))
- Expands your worldview and thinking (2 comments): "Finishing a good New Yorker article, or a book laying by my bed often expands my worldview" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770609)) "There are writers who can make that interesting, and you can read them in the New Yorker." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061683))

## What people warn about

- Long, drawn-out pieces (4 comments): "their pieces are so long that they're usually about events that happened weeks to months ago" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417045)) "writing that is written to sound impressive, and takes forever to get to the point" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585541)) "It has always felt to me like every piece is deliberately drawn out." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393926))
- Pretentious, impressive-sounding writing style (4 comments): "writing that is written to sound impressive, and takes forever to get to the point" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585541)) "The New Yorker may be pretentious but it's generally not unreadable" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531826)) "basically The Sun with rambling text instead of pictures of aliens" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48404612))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Byte magazine](https://hackerapproved.com/p/byte-magazine.md): 49 recommend
- [Paged Out](https://hackerapproved.com/p/paged-out-issue-sharp-8.md): 46 recommend
- [Dr. Dobb's Journal](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dr-dobb-s-journal.md): 14 recommend
- [Delayed Gratification magazine](https://hackerapproved.com/p/delayed-gratification-magazine.md): 11 recommend
- [Tmp.0ut Volume 5](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tmp-0ut-volume-5.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "The New Yorker", https://hackerapproved.com/p/new-yorker/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).