Productivity
HackerzNews
Last updated 2026-08-21 · benchmark measured 2026-08-21 — deterministic & reproducible
A non-commercial alternative front-end for browsing Hacker News stories.
91/100
Top 9% of 9,444 measured · #2 of 25 in news aggregator
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.
Is HackerzNews production-ready?
Legit.Show scores HackerzNews 91 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on HackerzNews (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 99/100
- Accessibility — 92/100
- Security — 100/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 97/100
- Discoverability — 77/100
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 — 104 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, canonical URL.
Who it's for
Developers · Tech enthusiasts · Engineers · Security researchers
Pricing
Free
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