Productivity
Hacker News
Last updated 2026-08-28 · benchmark measured 2026-08-28 — deterministic & reproducible
Hacker News stories converted into podcast episodes and discussion summaries.
73/100
Top 65% of 9,444 measured · #17 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 Hacker News production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Hacker News 73 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Hacker News (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 — 92/100
- Accessibility — 95/100
- Security — 80/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 30/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- No HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 714 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 2 of 2 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Hacker News readers · Commuters · Podcast listeners · Tech enthusiasts
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