Hackaday
Shares rank 10 of 26 newsletters by recommenders
Full of curious, inspiring hacking and gadget posts from many authors, though quality varies from author to author.
Full of curious, inspiring hacking and gadget posts from many authors, though quality varies from author to author.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 89%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, 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
Inspiring gadget and tech projects
“Hackaday is still pretty cool if you're into technogadgets and the like”
Comment from 24 Apr 2026 in “Work with the Garage Door Up” “so many cool, inspiring ideas”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “Protect Your Shed” Many authors, curious community
“Hackaday is a good blog too, there's many authors so it can be hit or miss but it's full of curious folks.”
Comment from 12 Dec 2025 in “CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy” “Hackaday would probably welcome you.”
Comment from 11 Dec 2025 in “I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop” Easy to follow regularly
“I watch stuff like hackaday and others with an rss reader, now.”
Comment from 6 Sep 2026 in “Doomscrolling ourselves to death” “regularly following Hackaday like blogs seems to help”
Comment from 12 Dec 2025 in “Nokia N900 Necromancy”
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 |
| HackadayThis page | 8 | 1 | 89% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I watch stuff like hackaday and others with an rss reader, now.”
“Hackaday is still pretty cool if you're into technogadgets and the like”
“It's also owned by Siemens via Supplyframe. That means its content is controlled to a certain degree.”
“so many cool, inspiring ideas”
“Hackaday is a content aggregator site that usually has more content on these topics”
“Hackaday is a good blog too, there's many authors so it can be hit or miss but it's full of curious folks.”
“regularly following Hackaday like blogs seems to help”
“Hackaday would probably welcome you.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.