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Hacker Times

Last updated 2026-06-28 · benchmark measured 2026-09-12 — deterministic & reproducible

Hacker Times presents Hacker News stories in a newspaper-style format.

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Legit.Show scored Hacker Times 76/100 on 2026-09-12, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/times-hntrends-net/2026-09-12

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 — 86/100
• Accessibility — 100/100
• Security — 45/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 75/100
• Standards — 100/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 563 ms to first byte.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who it's for

Hacker News readers · Tech enthusiasts · Developers · News aggregators

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from times.hntrends.net's own website on 2026-06-28.

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 2026-09-12.

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