Who hosts the HN Top 100?

Every 3 hours, each of Hacker News’ top 100 stories is probed for provider response headers.

Last audit Oct 23, 13:56 UTC · next Oct 23, 16:56 UTC

Provider breakdown

64/100 matched a known provider
  • Railway1
  • Cloudflare30
  • Netlify2
  • GitHub Pages24
  • Vercel7
  • Fly.io0
  • Render0
  • Other33
  • Text post3
  • Unreachable0

Provider trends — last 90 days

210 audits
RailwayCloudflareNetlifyGitHub PagesVercelFly.ioRender
02550Sep 5Sep 27Oct 19Cloudflare 30GitHub Pages 24Vercel 7Netlify 2

Top 100 stories

  1. 1
    Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers
    45 points · 8 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Vercel
  2. 2
    OpenSSL 4.1.0
    51 points · 9 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  3. 3
    Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
    690 points · 144 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  4. 4
    Shitter – A Nitter Fork
    37 points · 15 comments · HN threadAS29670 Individual Networ…
    Other
  5. 5
    Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
    121 points · 52 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    GitHub Pages
  6. 6
    No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner
    49 points · 39 comments · HN threadAS14618 Amazon.com
    Netlify
  7. 7
    Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude
    167 points · 71 comments · HN threadAS20940 Akamai Internatio…
    Other
  8. 8
    Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
    80 points · 60 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  9. 9
    Docker is weird
    626 points · 261 comments · HN threadAS7018 AT&T Enterprises
    Other
  10. 10
    Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating
    103 points · 47 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  11. 11
    Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone
    183 points · 113 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  12. 12
    Is this the new cyber normal?
    105 points · 118 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  13. 13
    The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
    254 points · 157 comments · HN threadAS18 University of Tex…
    Other
  14. 14
    The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions
    128 points · 49 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    Other
  15. 15
    How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?
    147 points · 46 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Vercel
  16. 16
    Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
    516 points · 507 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Vercel
  17. 17
    Job Loss and Cortisone Mania
    51 points · 12 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  18. 18
    Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key
    96 points · 49 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  19. 19
    OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents
    441 points · 200 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  20. 20
    The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial
    83 points · 39 comments · HN threadAS15169 Google
    Other
  21. 21
    Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party
    16 points · 3 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  22. 22
    Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices
    472 points · 174 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  23. 23
    Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
    273 points · 307 comments · HN thread
    Text post
  24. 24
    Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
    333 points · 152 comments · HN threadAS200233 Berner Fachhochsc…
    Other
  25. 25
    This I Believe (1952)
    115 points · 48 comments · HN threadAS14618 Amazon.com
    Other
  26. 26
    Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart
    56 points · 20 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  27. 27
    WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
    569 points · 176 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  28. 28
    I reverse engineered a board game
    65 points · 29 comments · HN threadAS212238 Datacamp
    Other
  29. 29
    Quad9 to exit France
    1280 points · 430 comments · HN threadAS559 SWITCH
    Other
  30. 30
    Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.
    630 points · 233 comments · HN thread
    Text post
  31. 31
    Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop
    136 points · 19 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    GitHub Pages
  32. 32
    Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought
    342 points · 306 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Other
  33. 33
    LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale
    383 points · 234 comments · HN threadAS399358 Anthropic
    Cloudflare
  34. 34
    eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
    1101 points · 708 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Other
  35. 35
    Color Names
    95 points · 27 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    GitHub Pages
  36. 36
    Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool
    222 points · 42 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  37. 37
    Hand-bent after 3D printing, Oberdoerfer and Krebs' Bend chair
    17 points · 8 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  38. 38
    Jared Kushner's Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations
    34 points · 7 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  39. 39
    Railpass
    115 points · 32 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  40. 40
    A lost Schrödinger manuscript reveals a twist in quantum physics
    65 points · 43 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  41. 41
    How to Design Flowers
    46 points · 3 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  42. 42
    Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms
    220 points · 40 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  43. 43
    Show HN: Uberblok – an interactive museum of ZFS internals
    113 points · 28 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  44. 44
    Postgres recovery_prefetch can cause outages
    41 points · 5 comments · HN threadAS2635 Automattic
    Other
  45. 45
    Jailbreaking the Switch 2
    788 points · 285 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    GitHub Pages
  46. 46
    Mortality Among People with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
    122 points · 83 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  47. 47
    Dungeon generation in the Gnomish mines of NetHack
    144 points · 19 comments · HN threadAS26347 New Dream Network
    Other
  48. 48
    Objects, attributes, maps, oh my
    17 points · 1 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    GitHub Pages
  49. 49
    We have traits at home
    22 points · 4 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    GitHub Pages
  50. 50
    Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test
    132 points · 58 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Other
  51. 51
    Mapping the Northern Sky
    42 points · 10 comments · HN threadAS20940 Akamai Internatio…
    Other
  52. 52
    What Is Gridifcation
    454 points · 214 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  53. 53
    Speeding up code review with `small-change`
    47 points · 28 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    GitHub Pages
  54. 54
    Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea
    211 points · 100 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    GitHub Pages
  55. 55
    A farewell to Arc browser
    271 points · 231 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Vercel
  56. 56
    Semantic search across major museums
    121 points · 31 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  57. 57
    Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name
    646 points · 658 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    Other
  58. 58
    ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support
    29 points · 3 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Other
  59. 59
    Offline FairPlay DRM Decryption
    13 points · 0 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  60. 60
    LISP Comes of Age (1980)
    12 points · 5 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  61. 61
    Code is clay now
    257 points · 173 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Vercel
  62. 62
    VMMouse for NT 3.x: QEMU/VMware mouse integration driver
    53 points · 10 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  63. 63
    MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada
    255 points · 131 comments · HN threadAS16625 Akamai Technologi…
    Other
  64. 64
    The phenomena that brighten dawn and dusk (2016)
    35 points · 3 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    Other
  65. 65
    Rule 30: one black cell
    20 points · 6 comments · HN threadAS12488 Krystal Hosting
    Other
  66. 66
    Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
    934 points · 458 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  67. 67
    Security Disclosure
    596 points · 337 comments · HN threadAS400940 Railway
    Railway
  68. 68
    What’s getting pwned right now
    371 points · 167 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  69. 69
    Eigenmoon: linear algebra puzzles by moonlight
    69 points · 16 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Vercel
  70. 70
    DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
    2336 points · 890 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  71. 71
    AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons
    136 points · 80 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    Other
  72. 72
    PHP 8.2.35
    1089 points · 573 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  73. 73
    What Is the Karakoram Anomaly?
    84 points · 25 comments · HN threadAS104 University of Col…
    Other
  74. 74
    Claude Duet
    551 points · 522 comments · HN threadAS399358 Anthropic
    Cloudflare
  75. 75
    Show HN: Turn regular JavaScript into a neural net
    42 points · 12 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    GitHub Pages
  76. 76
    AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation
    87 points · 44 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Other
  77. 77
    9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX
    1 points · 0 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  78. 78
    Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor
    590 points · 194 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  79. 79
    Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video]
    68 points · 9 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Other
  80. 80
    AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market
    47 points · 52 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  81. 81
    Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin
    196 points · 98 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  82. 82
    OpenAI CLI
    238 points · 111 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  83. 83
    Magnitude-7 earthquake hits Tibet, killing at least 16 destroying hundreds homes
    8 points · 0 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    Other
  84. 84
    Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y
    68 points · 29 comments · HN thread
    Text post
  85. 85
    Meta Muse hits 10M users
    10 points · 3 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Other
  86. 86
    Show HN: agent-usage-guard – a Claude Code mod to protect your usage window
    23 points · 9 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  87. 87
    The Rise and Fall of Jev
    74 points · 55 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  88. 88
    No more icons in every menu by default
    474 points · 275 comments · HN threadAS14618 Amazon.com
    Netlify
  89. 89
    The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]
    309 points · 292 comments · HN threadAS23859 University of New…
    Other
  90. 90
    Crystal 1.22
    174 points · 103 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Other
  91. 91
    Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro
    230 points · 97 comments · HN threadAS21499 Host Europe
    Other
  92. 92
    Launch HN: Alter (YC S25) – Access control for multi-user agents
    68 points · 45 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  93. 93
    Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure
    266 points · 98 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Other
  94. 94
    Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents
    111 points · 34 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  95. 95
    PingCap TiDB Leaks
    429 points · 73 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  96. 96
    A robot I didn't expect to build
    70 points · 58 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    Other
  97. 97
    Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list
    248 points · 91 comments · HN threadAS13335 Cloudflare
    Cloudflare
  98. 98
    EA is shutting down BioWare
    695 points · 470 comments · HN threadAS54113 Fastly
    Other
  99. 99
    mitmproxy adds --emudhra option
    606 points · 143 comments · HN threadAS36459 GitHub
    GitHub Pages
  100. 100
    Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI
    77 points · 43 comments · HN threadAS16509 Amazon.com
    Vercel

How detection works

Each story URL is fetched (GET, redirects followed, 15-second timeout) and classified by the first matching response header, in this priority order:

  1. 1.Railwayx-railway-edge
  2. 2.Netlifyx-nf-request-id
  3. 3.Vercelx-vercel-id
  4. 4.Fly.iofly-request-id
  5. 5.Renderrndr-id
  6. 6.GitHub Pagesx-github-request-id
  7. 7.Cloudflarecf-ray

A site can sit behind several providers at once (an app on Vercel fronted by Cloudflare, say); priority order decides the label. “Other” responded without any known header, “Text post” has no external URL (Ask HN and friends), and “Unreachable” didn’t respond in time.

Each story also shows the network that served it: the AS announcing the DNS-resolved IP of the final response, matched against the global BGP table from bgp.tools (refreshed daily). That’s how a Vercel-labeled site can show Amazon or Cloudflare as its network.