Hacker News minus the slop

Hacker News, unchanged, minus stories whose discussion suggests that clicking the link will be a waste of time.

Added August 14, 2026 · Last analysed August 14, 2026 · via Hacker News

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StackScope is a free public catalogue of indie launches. We find launches on Product Hunt, Hacker News and similar feeds, then crawl each site to detect its tech stack and score it for launch readiness: DNS, security headers, SEO basics. This page is what we saw on 14 August 2026; the live site may have changed since.

Hacker News minus the slop has the basics covered well, with clean crawl signals. What needs work: no Permissions-Policy, incomplete legal pages, and no email security records.

Launched on Hacker News on August 14, 2026. The site is served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered the day of launch. Our crawler found 7 technologies on this site, covering analytics, CDN, directory, and DNS providers. The stack includes Algolia, Cloudflare, and Cloudflare DNS.

It's also tighter on security headers than most Hacker News launches.

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7.9

StackScope Score

Good

78/100 Launch Readiness

Well prepared

5/6 Security Headers

Strong

2/3 Legal

Partial

2/2 Crawl files

Complete

94/100 Performance

Fast

Vibe Score 0 · No AI signals

How much the site looks AI-generated. Informational pattern-match signal, not a verdict. Does not feed the StackScope Score. See which fingerprints fired →

Tech Stack (7)

Infrastructure

CDN	Cloudflare
DNS	Cloudflare DNS
Security	HSTS

Analytics & Marketing

Analytics	Cloudflare Web Analytics (3)
Social	Hacker News (3)

Business Tools

Search	Algolia

Other

Directory	Y Combinator Launches

Infrastructure

Network

CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US

AS13335 · US

DNS

Cloudflare DNS

Authoritative nameserver

DNSSEC

Not enabled

DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.

Green hosting

Green hosted

Host runs on renewable energy. Data from The Green Web Foundation.

SSL Certificate

Google Trust Services

Valid 14 Aug 2026 to 12 Nov 2026

Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.

Domain Age

1 day

Registered Aug 2026 · Cloudflare, Inc.

Email Security

✗

SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.

DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.

✗

DMARC Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.

MTA-STS Not deployed. Mail to your domain can be downgraded to plaintext en route.

TLS-RPT Not configured. You won't hear about silent SMTP TLS handshake failures.

Storage (0)

This site uses no client-side storage we could detect on page load.

Readiness Breakdown How?

✓ Custom title and meta description

⚠

Open Graph tags (title, image, description) (partial) missing og:image

✓ Twitter card meta tags

✓ Canonical URL declared

✓ Responsive viewport meta tag

✓ Favicon present

- Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)

Performance How?

754 ms Server response

16% Faster than peers

784 ms Largest contentful paint

0.00 Cumulative layout shift

32 KB Page weight

1 KB Image weight

3 Third-party domains

0 Console errors

0 Failed requests

⚠ 2 images: 1 missing alt text

Indicative grade from a single automated render, not a substitute for Lighthouse or field data, and not part of the StackScope score.

AI Stance

Welcomes AI crawlers

✓ llms.txt published

✓ No AI bots blocked in robots.txt

Content-Signal

? No directive declared

Link headers

? None advertised

Well-Known Files

✓ robots.txt

✓ sitemap.xml (1 URLs)

✗ security.txt

✓ llms.txt

✗ ads.txt

✗ humans.txt

Legal

✓ Privacy Policy

/policies/privacy/partners/

? Terms of Service not detected

? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).

Security Headers (5/6)

✓

Referrer-Policy

✓

X-Frame-Options

✗

Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)

✓

X-Content-Type-Options

✓

Content-Security-Policy

✓

Strict-Transport-Security

–

X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

2 JS files

1 CSS files

3 Third-party domains

Brand Colours

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