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Hacker News RSS

Last updated 2026-10-15 · benchmark measured 2026-10-15 — deterministic & reproducible

Daily digest RSS feeds for Hacker News front page and Show HN posts.

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Legit.Show scored Hacker News RSS 69/100 on 2026-10-15, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/hackernewsrss-com/2026-10-15

Is Hacker News RSS production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Hacker News RSS 69 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Hacker News RSS (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 100/100
• Accessibility — 100/100
• Security — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 67/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 75/100

What we measured

• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 220 ms to first byte.
• 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who it's for

RSS reader users · Content curators · AI agents and automation workflows · Hacker News followers

Pricing

Free

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from hackernewsrss.com's own website on 2026-10-15.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-10-15.

Put together from public information, without Hacker News RSS's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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