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news.ycombinator.com status
Last updated 2026-07-13 · benchmark measured 2026-08-17 — deterministic & reproducible
Live uptime and response-time monitoring for news.ycombinator.com.
Is news.ycombinator.com status production-ready?
Legit.Show scores news.ycombinator.com status 72 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on news.ycombinator.com status (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 90/100
- Accessibility — 96/100
- Security — 25/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 97/100
- Discoverability — 72/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 294 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: sitemap, canonical URL.
Who it's for
DevOps teams · Site owners · System administrators · Monitoring professionals · Website operators
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