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Hacker News Flipboard
Last updated 2026-06-27 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
The top 20 stories on Hacker News, rendered on a split-flap departures board. Rank, points and headline on real mechanical flaps, refreshed by a scheduled cloud function. A remix of the Quickish flipboard.
57/100
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 Flipboard production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Hacker News Flipboard 57 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Hacker News Flipboard (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 57/100
- Accessibility — 100/100
- Security — 20/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 67/100
- Standards — 85/100
- Discoverability — 45/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Exposed secrets detected on the public surface.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 2468 ms to first byte.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: sitemap.