Tech News
Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com ↗Y Combinator-run tech link aggregator since 2007; community-curated, no editorial layer.
SourceScore Index
C·66Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.
C — high-velocity tech-discovery channel; aggregator with no editorial Discipline layer.
Citation Discipline
D·50
Aggregator with no editorial fact-check; comments unmoderated for accuracy; flag-based community moderation.
About this sub-score →Modern Reference
B·70
Open data API (Firebase); structured metadata per submission; full-text indexed.
About this sub-score →Citation Velocity
B·78
Default tech-discovery channel; tier-1 tech-press monitor HN front page daily.
About this sub-score →Signals behind these scores
Citation Discipline
D·50- No editorial layerSubmissions are external links; community votes; no editorial verification.
Modern Reference
B·70- Public APIhacker-news.firebaseio.com provides programmatic access to all submissions + comments.
Citation Velocity
B·78- Tech-discovery defaultFront-page submissions surface in Bloomberg, FT, NYT tech-news cycles.
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