# Yarn Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/yarn/ 15 people recommended Yarn in Hacker News comments, 10 had mixed feelings and 15 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 12 months, in 13 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** People recommend Yarn for reproducible installs, zero-install committed dependencies and faster installs on large monorepos. Critics say classic Yarn 1 is unmaintained and security-wise a dead end. Summary written by Claude from 42 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 38 of those comments still count. ## Why people recommend it - Commit dependencies to the repo (4 comments in the sample): "it just feels good knowing that my repo contains everything needed to install and run any version of my project" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488274)) "The main benefit with yarn berry (v4+) is being able to commit the dependencies to the repo" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415708)) "Run Yarn in zero-installs mode (or equivalent for your package manager" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583469)) - Faster installs, especially on Windows (3 comments in the sample): "Both yarn and pnpm support http/2 which speeds up the bazillion requests quite a bit." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928876)) "yarn installs deps much faster than NPM" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473911)) "Makes a massive difference in windows." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410122)) - Zero-installs removes npm pain (2 comments in the sample): "yarn with zero-installs removes an awful lot of pain present in npm and pnpm" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415660)) "For many years I was using yarn with 0 issue on massive monorepos" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422607)) - Consistent installs across teams (1 comment in the sample): "Modern Yarn releases (4.x) are deterministic to a fault and you can rely on it to have a consistent behavior across your whole team" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473877)) ## What people warn about - Classic Yarn unmaintained and unpatched (3 comments in the sample): "It was a giant mistake to keep 'classic' (umnaintained, unpatched) yarn around." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474742)) "Yarn is unfortunately a dead-end security-wise under current maintainership." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46265909)) "we replaced Yarn Classic with Bun for package management" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46126265)) - Too many competing tools and churn (2 comments in the sample): "NPM+Yarn+$package-package-manager of the day to solve the problems the whole ecosystem and the so-called solutions creates twice" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481319)) "drowning in the sea of npm/yarn/berry/pnpm" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238318)) - Resolver changes and platform inconsistency (2 comments in the sample): "I prefer things to just work rather than debug what is and isn't broken by the new resolver." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46128347)) "Deterministic to a fault unless you mix Windows and Linux." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474220)) - Install scripts run arbitrary code (1 comment in the sample): "it still executes build scripts willy-nilly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035557)) ## Other package managers people recommend - [Nix](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nix/): 262 recommend, 84 mixed, 132 criticize - [Homebrew](https://hackerapproved.com/p/homebrew/): 203 recommend, 51 mixed, 159 criticize - [pnpm](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pnpm/): 98 recommend, 14 mixed, 23 criticize - [Cargo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cargo/): 93 recommend, 16 mixed, 97 criticize ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Yarn", https://hackerapproved.com/p/yarn/ (15 recommend, 10 mixed, 15 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 3 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.