Is HackerPapers secure?

Legit.Show measured HackerPapers's Security frame at 80/100. Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure HackerPapers?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Education & Reference

HackerPapers

Last updated 2026-11-02 · benchmark measured 2026-11-02 — deterministic & reproducible

arXiv papers ranked by how many Hacker News commenters have discussed them.

80/100

7/7 frames

Top 54% of 18,529 measured · #15 of 24 in academic research assistant

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-11-02 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored HackerPapers 80/100 on 2026-11-02, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/hackerpaper-kaipfister-de/2026-11-02

Is HackerPapers production-ready?

Legit.Show scores HackerPapers 80 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on HackerPapers (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 — 82/100
Accessibility — 97/100
Security — 80/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 25/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 92/100
Discoverability — 85/100

What we measured

Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
No Content-Security-Policy.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 22 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
1 of 1 sampled routes reachable.
No privacy policy found.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

Researchers · Scientists · Developers · Tech enthusiasts · Knowledge seekers

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from hackerpaper.kaipfister.de's own website on 2026-11-02.
Operator: Kai Pfister, as named in hackerpaper.kaipfister.de's terms, privacy page or footer.
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 2026-11-02.

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