# The Daily WTF

5 Hacker News commenters recommended The Daily WTF and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for its entertaining stories of software failures and bad code, including breakdowns of recent incidents such as the PocketOS debacle.

## Why people recommend it

- Entertaining stories of software failures (2 comments): "You may laugh/cry with the contents of" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864143)) "full of stories like that" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271045))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "The Daily WTF", https://hackerapproved.com/p/daily-wtf/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).