2026-08-05 · front page checked 45 times today

21% of today's front page has nothing in front of it — no CDN, no platform, just its own server. The rest sits behind something.

57 stories seen · 52 hosts probed

Today

Each story counted once: where HN authors deploy.

Serves the response

Whatever terminates the connection: a CDN, a platform, or the site's own server. An edge a company built for itself counts the same as one it rented.

  1. Fastly CDN
    30%
  2. Cloudflare CDN
    28%
  3. Own server
    19%
  4. GitHub platform
    7%
  5. Netlify platform
    4%
  6. Google (own edge) CDN
    4%
  7. Akamai CDN
    4%
  8. AWS CloudFront CDN
    4%
  9. Automattic platform
    2%

Share over time

  • Cloudflare
  • Fastly
  • GitHub
  • Automattic
  • Netlify
  • Akamai
  • AWS CloudFront
  • Other
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DayCloudflareFastlyGitHubAutomatticNetlifyAkamaiAWS CloudFrontOther
2026-08-0436%18%11%7%5%4%4%14%
2026-08-0535%37%9%2%4%4%4%4%

On the front page today

PeakStoryOn pageServed by
1Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest7h 45mCloudflare
1DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X2hGitHub
1Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones11h 15mFastly
1Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation11h 15mNetlify
1Why some people mow a lawn better than others30mAWS CloudFront
1Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)3hCloudflare
1AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol11h 15mFastly
1libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months11h 15mnetcup GmbH own server
1Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI10h 45mCloudflare
1Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base1h 15mCloudflare
1Helsinki Hacker News Meetup45mCloudflare
2“Gravity is worth asking about”4h 45mNew Dream Network, LLC own server
2Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc5hFastly
2The Golden Age of British Ice Cream3h 45mCloudflare
2Waymo in Dallas11h 15mGoogle (own edge)
2I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel9hCloudflare
2Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage11h 15mFastly
2After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted4hKorea Telecom own server
3The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (1851)3h 45mNewfold Digital, Inc. own server
3Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack4h 30mCloudflare
3When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation8h 30mFastly
3Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game45mCloudflare
3In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years11h 15mWolfram Research, Inc. own server
3DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)11h 15mAWS S3 own server
4We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars11h 15mFastly
5Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication3h 45mAkamai
5IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay11h 15mNew Dream Network, LLC own server
5Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents5h 45mFastly
6Why is it all in the kernel?3hFastly
6Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed10hAutomattic
6Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead6h 45mCloudflare
6Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research1hCloudflare
6Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice10hFastly
7Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)5h 15mAkamai
7Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models2h 30mCloudflare
7Bugtraq is back10h 45mOVH own server
8Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable6h 45mFastly
8The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized1h 45mFastly
9Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone11h 15mFastly
9FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it4h 30mCloudflare
9The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 20241hFastly
10Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds45mFastly
10Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power11hHigh5! B.V. own server
14An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S36hGitHub
15There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]10h 15mWorcester Polytechnic Institute own server
15Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust10h 30mGitHub
15Flowise is shutting down10h 30mNetlify
15Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy2hFastly
16Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees1hAWS CloudFront
17I ran a 1998 artificial life SIM at 560x speed and caught a rare easter egg [video]45mGoogle (own edge)
18Colorimeter 3nh CR4501 RAL Hack2h 45mGitHub
18From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017)3h 15mFastly
19Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C1009h 15mAlibaba Cloud own server
22The physics of Docker build caching15mCloudflare
22Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s30mCloudflare
23Show HN: A little physical breakout clone1hFastly
23Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet1h 15mCloudflare