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Ask HN: Good online magazines, anyone?

6 points by ekpyrotic 18y ago

I am a magazine junkie; I am a magazine connoisseur. I love to read well-written features on tech or culture or music, if there's substance I'm happy. New Yorker-esque. So, any good links?

unalone 18y ago
New Yorker. The Atlantic. Harpers. Slate and Salon are a rung below that. Wired doesn't always totally suck. I'd mention Pitchfork but there's a lot of hate against them. Online-only I could only name the ones I read, namely Smashing Magazine and I Love Typography.
- avinashv 18y ago
  +1 for The Atlantic. Excellent articles on a variety of topics. Going to try Harpers.
  - unalone 18y ago
    http://harpers.org/ http://harpers.org/ To be honest, I don't read very many of the articles there - not my interest - but I love the Index.
dkarl 18y ago
I find that the more magazines I have, the less I get out of them, because I'm able to pass over the "huh? meh" articles in favor of articles I know I'm interested in. It's hard to remind myself that I don't already know what's interesting and what isn't. Easy solution: I subscribe to The New Yorker and The Atlantic in dead-tree form and read them cover to cover (except the New Yorker's local stuff, since I'm not in New York.) I don't understand how someone could consume a dozen magazines a month. I don't have time for more than two (well, plus National Geographic; my Grandmother gives me a subscription every year.) Maybe I read too much in newspapers (like telling time by looking at the second hand of the clock) or on the internet, or maybe I'm just a slow reader.
HalcyonMuse 18y ago
http://www.economist.com/ http://www.economist.com/ and http://seedmagazine.com/ http://seedmagazine.com/ have great reputations... at least in my book. They have a very high ratio of signal to noise, in my opinion. I often enjoy http://www.physorg.com/ http://www.physorg.com/, though it's frequently a little over my head... at the same time, I appreciate that they don't pull the punches, so to speak.
chris11 18y ago
I really like the New Yorker, especially the comics, but that has already been mentioned. Harvard Business Review (hbr.com) has some well written free articles. Makezine.com has interesting projects to work on.
Donald 18y ago
http://www.nplusonemag.com/ http://www.nplusonemag.com/ Hipster's New Yorker. Less prolific, but makes up with more pretension. American politics: http://nplusonemag.com/dev/test/drupal-test/obama http://nplusonemag.com/dev/test/drupal-test/obama Global politics: http://nplusonemag.com/dev/test/drupal-test/?q=defending-dictatorship-another-view-pakistan http://nplusonemag.com/dev/test/drupal-test/?q=defending-dic... Caustic film reviews: http://www.nplusonemag.com/dark-knight http://www.nplusonemag.com/dark-knight
PaulMorgan 18y ago
Mother Jones Magazine: http://www.motherjones.com/ http://www.motherjones.com/

6 points by ekpyrotic 18y ago

I am a magazine junkie; I am a magazine connoisseur. I love to read well-written features on tech or culture or music, if there's substance I'm happy. New Yorker-esque. So, any good links?

unalone 18y ago

New Yorker. The Atlantic. Harpers. Slate and Salon are a rung below that. Wired doesn't always totally suck. I'd mention Pitchfork but there's a lot of hate against them. Online-only I could only name the ones I read, namely Smashing Magazine and I Love Typography.

avinashv 18y ago
+1 for The Atlantic. Excellent articles on a variety of topics. Going to try Harpers.
- unalone 18y ago
  http://harpers.org/ http://harpers.org/ To be honest, I don't read very many of the articles there - not my interest - but I love the Index.

dkarl 18y ago

I find that the more magazines I have, the less I get out of them, because I'm able to pass over the "huh? meh" articles in favor of articles I know I'm interested in. It's hard to remind myself that I don't already know what's interesting and what isn't. Easy solution: I subscribe to The New Yorker and The Atlantic in dead-tree form and read them cover to cover (except the New Yorker's local stuff, since I'm not in New York.) I don't understand how someone could consume a dozen magazines a month. I don't have time for more than two (well, plus National Geographic; my Grandmother gives me a subscription every year.) Maybe I read too much in newspapers (like telling time by looking at the second hand of the clock) or on the internet, or maybe I'm just a slow reader.

HalcyonMuse 18y ago

http://www.economist.com/ http://www.economist.com/ and http://seedmagazine.com/ http://seedmagazine.com/ have great reputations... at least in my book. They have a very high ratio of signal to noise, in my opinion. I often enjoy http://www.physorg.com/ http://www.physorg.com/, though it's frequently a little over my head... at the same time, I appreciate that they don't pull the punches, so to speak.

chris11 18y ago

I really like the New Yorker, especially the comics, but that has already been mentioned. Harvard Business Review (hbr.com) has some well written free articles. Makezine.com has interesting projects to work on.

Donald 18y ago

http://www.nplusonemag.com/ http://www.nplusonemag.com/ Hipster's New Yorker. Less prolific, but makes up with more pretension. American politics: http://nplusonemag.com/dev/test/drupal-test/obama http://nplusonemag.com/dev/test/drupal-test/obama Global politics: http://nplusonemag.com/dev/test/drupal-test/?q=defending-dictatorship-another-view-pakistan http://nplusonemag.com/dev/test/drupal-test/?q=defending-dic... Caustic film reviews: http://www.nplusonemag.com/dark-knight http://www.nplusonemag.com/dark-knight

PaulMorgan 18y ago

Mother Jones Magazine: http://www.motherjones.com/ http://www.motherjones.com/