How does daily.dev compare to dev.to and Hacker News?

[nimrodkra]

We get this question a lot, so here is an honest take from the team. Yes, we are biased, so we will keep it factual.

The three solve different problems:

• dev.to is a blogging community. Most of its content is written on the platform itself. It is great for tutorials, learning in public, and a welcoming writing community.
• Hacker News is a single shared ranked list of tech and startup links, run by Y Combinator. Everyone sees the same front page, and the comment threads are often the real value.
• daily.dev is an aggregator plus community. It pulls developer content from thousands of sources across the web (engineering blogs, release notes, tutorials, videos) and personalizes your feed based on the tags you follow and what you read. Squads add a community layer on top.

Practical differences:

	daily.dev	Hacker News	dev.to
Content source	Aggregated from across the web	Links submitted by users	Written on the platform
Personalization	Per-user feed (tags + reading activity)	One list for everyone	Tag following, mostly on-platform posts
Form factor	New tab extension, web app, iOS, Android	Website	Website + apps
Community	Squads, comments, upvotes	Comment threads	Posts, comments, orgs

Many developers use them together: daily.dev as the daily driver, Hacker News a couple of times a week for the discussion threads, dev.to for writing. All three are free, so try the combination that fits your routine.