# OK Computer by Radiohead

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/ok-computer/

5 people recommended OK Computer by Radiohead in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 12 months, in 2 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

4 of the 5 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “The X-Files Has Made Me Nostalgic for a Time I Never Experienced”.

**Verdict:** Recommended as an iconic, generation-defining album that still sounds timeless and was blowing listeners away on first listen.

Summary written by Claude from 5 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Iconic and generation-defining (2 comments in the sample): "Radiohead put out OK computer then which is iconic." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049787)) "All of these are generation defining albums." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979263))
- Timeless and still great (2 comments in the sample): "I remember it being pretty great" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978963)) "Timeless albums from that era" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978929))

## Other albums people recommend

- [Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ambient-1-music-for-airports/): 8 recommend, 2 mixed, 1 criticize
- [In Rainbows by Radiohead](https://hackerapproved.com/p/in-rainbows/): 7 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize
- [Endtroducing by DJ Shadow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/entroducing/): 5 recommend, 0 mixed, 1 criticize
- [Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich](https://hackerapproved.com/p/music-for-18-musicians/): 5 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 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, "OK Computer by Radiohead", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ok-computer/ (5 recommend, 1 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

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