My favorite magazine is Software Design (https://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD), a Japanese magazine that specializes in software engineering and IT topics. It reminds me of Dr. Dobbs' Journal. The articles are well-written and have code samples. I started reading this magazine in 2010 when I was living in Japan doing an internship at a major Japanese tech company, and I always purchase a physical copy whenever I visit Japan.
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#42I enjoy both Quanta and Aeon. They get linked on HN somewhat often, and for good reason - they manage to balance being detailed and informative on technical subject matter while still being interesting and readable.
The New Yorker and The Economist have already been mentioned but are worth mentioning again.
Le Monde Diplomatique has some great material. Though I'm not quite willing to subscribe, maybe a third of their articles are available for free.
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#43I've been reading the Economist for about 10 years. It provides great coverage on big issues, and recently, some fun ones (billie eilish comes to mind). It's unique in that it feels "slower", more deliberate, and thoughtful than most newspaper/tv channels. It gives context and covers multiple viewpoints before giving an opinion. Its daily espresso newsletter and quarterly tech issues are always interesting too. I've…
The Economist is great, but it definitely wears its biases on its sleeve; it hasn’t quite found a problem the free market can’t solve.
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#44https://pagedout.institute/ It's an online zine focused on programming and hacking. If you like 2600 you'll love pagedout.
Wow this is really cool. Great find thanks!
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#45I love National Geographic and have been a subsciber of this magazine for more than 10 years now.When I read this magazine which is full with amazing photos and graphs I am always taken to a very exciting and absurbing place.
Another magazine which I also love and subscribed to for the last years is Popular Science which I highly recommand.
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#46Failory is one site that I've come to like in recent times. They talk about startup failures amongst other things. But it provides some semi regular blogs on start ups that went bust and why. I believe that there's a lot to learn from someone else's mistakes. And there are some that are also quite hilarious like the one in Juicer.
However, it isn't a magazine or a journal per se. The link is failory.com
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#47Sorry in advance for the negativity. I'd love to rediscover the joy of reading quality periodicals so I'll read other comments here and try anything that looks good. As for my experiences lately... I subscribed to The Atlantic after reading it online. The print edition is disappointing for the quality of its typography and illustrations. The layout subediting should contribute a lot more to the experience. Instead, I…
I for one find your criticism to be enlightening and valuable. If I may ask you to continue, what qualities do you think are signs of good experiences in print and digital literature?
Good question. I’m wondering if my online experiences have changed my expectations and readiness for print.
30 years ago, I’d luxuriate in a copy of Foreign Affairs, The Economist, New Yorker, Interview, NME. Each of those publications gave me subject depth I couldn’t get anywhere else, and the long form articles would provide background and context. They were another world. All I had to do was pay the cover price and find somewhere comfortable to sit without interruption.
What’s different now is I can get all the background and context I need for subjects about which I am naive online through search and Wikipedia. I don’t have to wait for next months periodical to satisfy a curiosity in a subject. So what I want from periodicals has changed. I’m just understanding this more clearly as I respond to your question.
With a magazine, I can’t search, so I want a different experience. I want what I can’t get online for free - inside information, deep subject specialty, skilful curation. The Atlantic often has that, but the curation isn’t assisted by bland typography and illustrations. New Yorker is better that way. I can tell which articles to read without trawling through 500 words.
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#48Private Eye. Probably only of interest to those in the UK (Ireland has The Phoenix, which appears superficially similar at least).
As far as I'm aware it's the only widely distributed investigative journalism magazine. You get to read about some scandals months or years before they break in the news, plenty never make it of course.
There are a number of regular features but the one on the state of national health by M.D. has been by far and a way the most insightful thing I've read on the state of various countries under covid. This includes how the govt. has cocked up, and frequent admissions of how covid confounded the assumptions of the medical community.
It's also got a good line in satire, reviews, absurdity and cartoons. It can be a bit of a slog to read, especially if you go page by page, but that's probably more a reflection of the value of the content than the quality of the prose.
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#49N+1 and The Baffler both seem to be constitutionally incapable of releasing a bad issue. Highly recommended. Jacobin is uneven, but if you read Reason et al you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy now and then to keep up with ideological writing in the land of the living. The Economist is an incredibly well written magazine that unfortunately - editorials aside - can't escape the compulsion of not even being wrong.…
I'd forgotten about Edge, I had a subscription for years. I only picked up a copy to occupy me during a flight but I was stunned to find it actually talking seriously about interesting stuff!
I was pretty young and probably impressionable, but the difference between EDGE and the likes of PC Gamer/Zone/Format was remarkable. Hence this remark.
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#50The London Review of Books.
Imagine the New Yorker (in depth, long form, political and cultural) but far, far less obsessed with wokeness... yet still with a useful and critical eye on conservatism.