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HN Glance

Last updated 2026-08-16 · benchmark measured 2026-09-17 — deterministic & reproducible

HN Glance shows a snapshot of the current Hacker News front page.

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Legit.Show scored HN Glance 89/100 on 2026-09-17, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/hnglance-com/2026-09-17

Is HN Glance production-ready?

Legit.Show scores HN Glance 89 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on HN Glance (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 76/100
• Accessibility — 91/100
• Security — 55/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 100/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 903 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.

Who it's for

developers · tech enthusiasts · news readers · engineers · researchers

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from hnglance.com's own website on 2026-08-16.

Operator

HN Glance, as named in hnglance.com's terms, privacy page or footer.

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 2026-09-17.

Put together from public information, without HN Glance's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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