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HN Stats
Last updated 2026-08-26 · benchmark measured 2026-08-26 — deterministic & reproducible
Live tracker showing how much of Hacker News each day mentions AI.
84/100
Top 28% of 10,225 measured
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 HN Stats production-ready?
Legit.Show scores HN Stats 84 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on HN Stats (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 — 80/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 92/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
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 — 129 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
Hacker News readers · AI enthusiasts · trend analysts · developers · data observers
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