# Daring Fireball

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Daring Fireball and 15 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A long-running blog on Apple news with small, non-intrusive ads that recommenders say avoid tracking. Critics say it is too tied to Apple and drifts into unrelated topics.

## Why people recommend it

- Small, non-intrusive ads (2 comments): "Daring Fireball never runs these tracking ad networks with tons of flashing and annoying ads." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46188162)) "actually having small, non-intrusive ads that I wouldn't ever feel the need to block" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308737))
- Avoids tracking and analytics (2 comments): "Daring Fireball never runs these tracking ad networks with tons of flashing and annoying ads." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46188162)) "He claims to never look at his server logs and got rid of Google Analytics ages ago." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46188253))

## What people warn about

- Hard to read on mobile (3 comments): "dedicates only about 50% of the screen width (on mobile) to content, and leaves the other half blank" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445782)) "It isn’t mobile friendly, and the white on grey, while cool, is a bit hard to read." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485601)) "he's narrowed the text another ten pixels" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342014))
- Too close to Apple's interests (2 comments): "His business is too tied to being in Apple's good graces anyway to take him that seriously these days." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365165)) "Gruber spent the past decade applauding every Apple mistake" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580240))
- Drifts into unrelated Apple news (2 comments): "continues to be increasingly so irrelevant that they sometimes veer off into unrelated Apple news" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734303)) "Gruber has always done that. Years ago I made a Chrome extension to filter out all of his detours" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734692))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [The Daily WTF](https://hackerapproved.com/p/daily-wtf.md): 5 recommend
- [acko.net](https://hackerapproved.com/p/acko-net.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Daring Fireball", https://hackerapproved.com/p/daring-fireball/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).