# Cloudflare blog 6 Hacker News commenters recommended Cloudflare blog and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Recommended for well-written, technically deep posts from engineers, some of which readers verify as accurate. Critics say recent posts read as AI-generated and have become dry. ## Why people recommend it - Well-written, insightful technical posts (2 comments): "the technical posts from Cloudflare are usually very insightful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782640)) "just how well-written the majority of Cloudflare's posts are" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933835)) - Consistently excellent for many years (1 comments): "Cloudflare blogs have been excellent for many years, long before transformers arrived." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181569)) - Accurate, checked by people in the field (1 comments): "As someone in networking, it checks out, and I also know the author." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543129)) ## What people warn about - Posts appear AI-generated and sloppy (4 comments): "TL;DR; jgc stopped editing the blog, and AI slop took over" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187653)) "Lately all Cloudflare output has been heavily AI'd." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184355)) "its just llm slop both content and actual writing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143848)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Simon Willison's blog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/simon-willison-s-blog.md): 21 recommend - [acoup.blog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/acoup-blog.md): 19 recommend - [gwern.net](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gwern-net.md): 19 recommend - [Julia Evans blog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/julia-evans-blog.md): 11 recommend - [computer.rip by J.B. Crawford](https://hackerapproved.com/p/computer-rip.md): 9 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Cloudflare blog", https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-blog/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).