<story><title>Ask HN: What are some good tech magazines?</title><text>I spend so much of my work and leisure time on devices and have been trying to reduce this. For example, I&amp;#x27;ve recently switched to an iPod Classic for a lot of my music listening which has been quite nice.&lt;p&gt;I also spend a lot of time browsing and reading interesting articles, particularly on HN and want to replace some of that with &amp;#x27;offline&amp;#x27; alternatives. When it comes to other hobbies (sports, music) I have found some great magazines still in circulation that can work as alternatives to browsing online.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to hear your suggestions for tech related magazines, ideally things I can subscribe to and get monthly&amp;#x2F;quarterly. These should be varied enough to cover the kind of topics we see here on HN daily as opposed to super general tech news type magazines.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinyprojects</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m glad I&amp;#x27;m not the only one who thinks WIRED has gone down hill a bit recently.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>My current subscription list includes;&lt;p&gt;Wired -- has slipped a bit, I worry they have lost the will to cover cutting edge.&lt;p&gt;Smithsonian -- a wide variety of topics, some tech, some archeologh etc.&lt;p&gt;Smithsonian Air &amp;amp; Space -- (now quarterly :-() which has good space technology as well as interesting stories of both military and civilian aircraft.&lt;p&gt;Science News -- which culls from a lot of journals and finds interesting papers to highlight (I will often follow up on an article by writing to the researchers for copies of their papers)&lt;p&gt;Popular Science, Popular Mechanics -- These have become remarkably similar in their content focus, that said they keep me up to date on a lot of commercial gizmos that I might otherwise miss in the noise.&lt;p&gt;QST (part of the ARRL membership) -- Which is all about Amateur Radio and so it hits a lot of interesting topics as I continue to explore software defined radios both in theory and in practice.&lt;p&gt;I use Scansnap scanner and paper guillotine to save articles that I find either particularly interesting, or I am curious if they will go anywhere. There are many interesting &amp;quot;over night&amp;quot; revolutions that appear years earlier as some sort of &amp;quot;wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be cool if ...&amp;quot; article. Indexing them is a pain, my indexing foo is weak :-).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsemrau</author><text>I absolutely miss the Wired of the 1990&amp;#x27;s.
When it was a magazine, no THE magazine, to read about the intersection of culture and tech. In this day and age, I find it hard to pickup a copy of Wired at the airport because it has content for about 5 minutes.
One of my favs is still Monocle, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t have much tech. Unfortunately.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What are some good tech magazines?</title><text>I spend so much of my work and leisure time on devices and have been trying to reduce this. For example, I&amp;#x27;ve recently switched to an iPod Classic for a lot of my music listening which has been quite nice.&lt;p&gt;I also spend a lot of time browsing and reading interesting articles, particularly on HN and want to replace some of that with &amp;#x27;offline&amp;#x27; alternatives. When it comes to other hobbies (sports, music) I have found some great magazines still in circulation that can work as alternatives to browsing online.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d love to hear your suggestions for tech related magazines, ideally things I can subscribe to and get monthly&amp;#x2F;quarterly. These should be varied enough to cover the kind of topics we see here on HN daily as opposed to super general tech news type magazines.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinyprojects</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m glad I&amp;#x27;m not the only one who thinks WIRED has gone down hill a bit recently.</text></item><item><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>My current subscription list includes;&lt;p&gt;Wired -- has slipped a bit, I worry they have lost the will to cover cutting edge.&lt;p&gt;Smithsonian -- a wide variety of topics, some tech, some archeologh etc.&lt;p&gt;Smithsonian Air &amp;amp; Space -- (now quarterly :-() which has good space technology as well as interesting stories of both military and civilian aircraft.&lt;p&gt;Science News -- which culls from a lot of journals and finds interesting papers to highlight (I will often follow up on an article by writing to the researchers for copies of their papers)&lt;p&gt;Popular Science, Popular Mechanics -- These have become remarkably similar in their content focus, that said they keep me up to date on a lot of commercial gizmos that I might otherwise miss in the noise.&lt;p&gt;QST (part of the ARRL membership) -- Which is all about Amateur Radio and so it hits a lot of interesting topics as I continue to explore software defined radios both in theory and in practice.&lt;p&gt;I use Scansnap scanner and paper guillotine to save articles that I find either particularly interesting, or I am curious if they will go anywhere. There are many interesting &amp;quot;over night&amp;quot; revolutions that appear years earlier as some sort of &amp;quot;wouldn&amp;#x27;t it be cool if ...&amp;quot; article. Indexing them is a pain, my indexing foo is weak :-).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rileymat2</author><text>By recently, do you mean 2005?</text></comment>