Given quantities ∆ 1 , ∆ 2 , • • • 0, a fundamental problem in Diophantine approximation is to understand which irrational numbers x have infinitely many reduced rational approximations a/q such that |x − a/q| < ∆ q . Depending on the choice of ∆ q and of x, this question may be very hard. However, Duffin and Schaeffer conjectured in 1941 that if we assume a "metric" point of view, the question is governed by a simple zero-one law: writing ϕ for Euler's totient function, we either have ∞ q=1 ϕ(q)∆ q = ∞ and then almost all irrational numbers (in the Lebesgue sense) are approximable, or ∞ q=1 ϕ(q)∆ q < ∞ and almost no irrationals are approximable. We present the history of the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture and the main ideas behind the recent work of Koukoulopoulos-Maynard that settled it.