The New Yorker is for people interested in food / fashion / personalities / culture. Their readership isn't interested in technical details or technical subject

The New Yorker is for people interested in food / fashion / personalities / culture. Their readership isn't interested in technical details or technical subjects. So while they occasionally have an article about a technical subject they always fill it with information about the people involved and gloss over the details. That sells magazines among their core readership, but doesn't work well at all for HN. We're not the intended audience.