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news.ycombinator.com status
Last updated 2026-07-13 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
Live uptime and response-time monitoring for news.ycombinator.com.
Is news.ycombinator.com status production-ready?
Legit.Show scores news.ycombinator.com status 71 out of 100 — the simple average of its 4 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on news.ycombinator.com status (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Privacy. 4 of the seven frames returned a score; Security, Reliability and Discoverability were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 95/100
- Accessibility — 96/100
- Security — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Standards — 67/100
- Discoverability — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 0 ms to first byte.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: sitemap.
Who it's for
DevOps teams · Site owners · System administrators · Monitoring professionals · Website operators
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