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Hacker Times
Last updated 2026-11-03 · benchmark measured 2026-11-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Hacker Times is a curated daily news digest drawn from Hacker News discussions.
Hacker Times at a glance
Hacker Times is a daily newspaper-style digest that curates top Hacker News stories and comment counts across technology, science, culture, and business for people who follow tech and internet culture.
Good for
- Getting a structured, browsable overview of what's trending on Hacker News without scrolling the raw site
- Tracking daily tech, science, business, and culture stories along with how much discussion each one generated
- Catching up on community reactions through surfaced comment excerpts from Hacker News threads
Questions people ask
What is Hacker Times?
It's a curated daily news digest that pulls top stories from Hacker News and presents them in a newspaper-style edition.
How often is it updated?
The site publishes a new edition daily, with past editions also available to browse.
What topics does it cover?
It organizes stories into categories including Technology, AI, Software, Science, Culture, Business, and Games.
Does it show community discussion, not just articles?
Yes, each story includes a comment count and the site also surfaces selected comment excerpts from Hacker News discussions.
Who is Hacker Times meant for?
It's aimed at technology professionals, software developers, science enthusiasts, business decision makers, and other tech-savvy readers who follow Hacker News.
Written by Legit.Show from hackertimes.ca on 2026-11-04. It does not change the score.
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Legit.Show scored Hacker Times 76/100 on 2026-11-03, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/hackertimes-ca/2026-11-03
Is Hacker Times production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Hacker Times 76 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Hacker Times (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 91/100
- Accessibility — 100/100
- Security — 100/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
- Privacy — 25/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
- Reliability — 92/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 35/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 180 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Technology professionals · Software developers · Science enthusiasts · Business decision makers · Tech-savvy readers
Sources and updates
- Description
- Taken from hackertimes.ca's own website on 2026-11-03.
- 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 2026-11-03.
Put together from public information, without Hacker Times's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.
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