# Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/daemon-and-freedom/

5 people recommended Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 12 months, in 3 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

3 of the 5 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Accelerando (2005)”.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a fiction take on AI and crypto DAOs that feels different from most AI singularity novels, and it still reads well when revisited years later.

Summary written by Claude from 3 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Feels different from typical AI singularity novels (1 comment in the sample): "They are very different from most of the AI singularity novels." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182404))
- Still resonates when reread years later (1 comment in the sample): "They definitely hit different today than when I first read them in 2010 or thereabouts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161360))
- Blends AI with crypto DAOs (1 comment in the sample): "Daemon+Freedom by Daniel Suarez (=AI + crypto DAOs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161124))

## Other science fiction novels people recommend

- [Blindsight by Peter Watts](https://hackerapproved.com/p/blindsight/): 78 recommend, 18 mixed, 23 criticize
- [Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky](https://hackerapproved.com/p/children-of-time/): 64 recommend, 1 mixed, 4 criticize
- [Accelerando by Charles Stross](https://hackerapproved.com/p/accelerando/): 63 recommend, 7 mixed, 8 criticize
- [There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm](https://hackerapproved.com/p/there-is-no-antimemetics-division/): 57 recommend, 34 mixed, 28 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez", https://hackerapproved.com/p/daemon-and-freedom/ (5 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.