# MDN Web Docs

27 Hacker News commenters recommended MDN Web Docs and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a trustworthy, approachable reference for web standards, covering CSS, SVG, Wasm and web APIs, with examples and fast corrections.

## Why people recommend it

- Best technical reference for web (5 comments): "Already MDN has the de-facto best documentation for SVG" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130451)) "MDN and MSDN are my favorite documentation sites." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46377539)) "MDN is the best technical reference" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266614))
- Approachable explanations and learning material (4 comments): "They include a general overview of how the web works before teaching the basics." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611174)) "These days I make newbies read the MDN docs like a book" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478796)) "approachable documentation on, say, MDN" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573096))
- Accurate, up-to-date, more trustworthy than blogs (2 comments): "documentation on MDN is miles more trustworthy that your average SEO spam blog" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267161)) "MDN documentation is good and up to date overall" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46201813))
- Errors corrected quickly (2 comments): "I've pointed out errors a couple of times and they were corrected pretty quickly." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379478)) "I've found them responsive to errors too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46389852))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Stack Overflow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/stack-overflow.md): 235 recommend
- [HTTP Cats](https://hackerapproved.com/p/http-cats.md): 20 recommend
- [Unicode symbol reference page](https://hackerapproved.com/p/one-clean-developer-focused-page-for-every-unicode-symbol.md): 8 recommend
- [Can I Use](https://hackerapproved.com/p/can-i-use.md): 5 recommend
- [Ralf Brown's Interrupt List](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ralf-brown-s-interrupt-list.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "MDN Web Docs", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mdn-web-docs/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).