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Shares rank 16 of 26 newsletters by recommenders
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.
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.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 55%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Well-written, insightful technical posts
“the technical posts from Cloudflare are usually very insightful”
Comment from 27 Jan 2026 in “Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't” “just how well-written the majority of Cloudflare's posts are”
Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform” Consistently excellent for many years
“Cloudflare blogs have been excellent for many years, long before transformers arrived.”
Comment from 18 May 2026 in “Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us” Accurate, checked by people in the field
“As someone in networking, it checks out, and I also know the author.”
Comment from 8 Jan 2026 in “A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Posts appear AI-generated and sloppy
“TL;DR; jgc stopped editing the blog, and AI slop took over”
Comment from 5 Aug 2026 in “Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work” “Lately all Cloudflare output has been heavily AI'd.”
Comment from 18 May 2026 in “Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us” “its just llm slop both content and actual writing”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week” - Comment from 4 Mar 2026 in “Toxic combinations: when small signals add up to a security incident”
Other newsletters people recommend
The four most recommended other newsletters, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Zitron newsletter | 46 | 42 | 52% | 12 | — | — |
| Simon Willison's blog | 21 | 2 | 91% | 9 | — | Approved |
| SemiAnalysis | 20 | 12 | 63% | 8 | — | — |
| acoup.blog | 19 | 0 | 100% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Cloudflare blogThis page | 6 | 5 | 55% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“just how well-written the majority of Cloudflare's posts are”
“TL;DR; jgc stopped editing the blog, and AI slop took over”
“started using that attention more for advertising”
“Lately all Cloudflare output has been heavily AI'd.”
“Cloudflare blogs have been excellent for many years, long before transformers arrived.”
“AI slop are getting rather... dry.”
“its just llm slop both content and actual writing”
“the technical posts from Cloudflare are usually very insightful”
“As someone in networking, it checks out, and I also know the author.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.