Productivity
Hacker News (no AI)
Last updated 2026-08-15 · benchmark measured 2026-08-15 — deterministic & reproducible
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59/100
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 (no AI) production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Hacker News (no AI) 59 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Hacker News (no AI) (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 100/100
- Accessibility — 70/100
- Security — 10/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 15/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 210 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Developers · Tech enthusiasts · Hacker News readers
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