2026-11-04 · crawler ran 56 times today

82% of reachable sites on today's HN front page serve traffic through a CDN or platform.

65 stories seen · 57 hosts checked

Provider share

Each story counts once, whether it stayed for a few minutes or all day.

Who answers first

The connection ends at a CDN, a platform, or the site's own server. Companies can build or rent the edge; both count here.

  1. Fastly CDN
    25%
  2. Cloudflare CDN
    25%
  3. Own server
    17%
  4. GitHub platform
    6%
  5. Akamai CDN
    6%
  6. Vercel platform
    5%
  7. Google (own edge) CDN
    3%
  8. Netlify platform
    3%
  9. AWS CloudFront CDN
    3%
  10. Bunny CDN CDN
    2%

Share over time

  • Cloudflare
  • Own server
  • Fastly
  • GitHub
  • Vercel
  • AWS CloudFront
  • Google (own edge)
  • Other

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Daily provider share by story count, in percentages
DayCloudflareOwn serverFastlyGitHubVercelAWS CloudFrontGoogle (own edge)Other
2026-09-0523%27%15%5%8%4%4%15%
2026-09-0626%24%17%8%4%4%2%15%
2026-09-0728%23%19%9%7%2%3%9%
2026-09-0829%19%23%5%4%2%5%12%
2026-09-0932%25%18%4%6%5%2%7%
2026-09-1037%18%20%3%9%2%1%10%
2026-09-1132%17%16%7%9%3%4%13%
2026-09-1227%19%21%7%6%7%4%9%
2026-09-1329%23%19%7%3%5%5%9%
2026-09-1425%24%16%8%8%7%2%11%
2026-09-1527%20%17%8%5%7%2%14%
2026-09-1620%20%28%7%6%5%3%12%
2026-09-1722%22%21%5%7%7%3%12%
2026-09-1832%20%19%4%11%4%3%7%
2026-09-1934%14%19%6%8%8%3%7%
2026-09-2023%27%19%5%6%7%1%11%
2026-09-2129%23%17%11%3%7%1%10%
2026-09-2227%23%19%7%6%5%1%13%
2026-09-2325%11%17%6%8%9%3%23%
2026-09-2429%14%13%8%9%5%6%16%
2026-09-2527%19%12%6%10%6%6%13%
2026-09-2630%23%19%4%5%4%5%11%
2026-09-2729%25%17%4%9%2%5%10%
2026-09-2830%17%16%6%10%5%4%12%
2026-09-2936%16%13%8%7%8%1%11%
2026-09-3038%12%19%9%7%3%3%9%
2026-10-0133%16%18%7%8%3%3%12%
2026-10-0228%21%15%8%9%5%3%11%
2026-10-0334%21%13%6%6%3%4%13%
2026-10-0431%31%15%7%2%5%5%6%
2026-10-0529%23%14%8%4%5%5%11%
2026-10-0629%11%19%9%9%6%2%16%
2026-10-0723%19%12%16%6%5%6%14%
2026-10-0826%13%22%13%7%3%4%12%
2026-10-0931%15%12%6%10%8%1%17%
2026-10-1029%22%20%4%9%5%1%9%
2026-10-1128%17%24%10%3%5%2%12%
2026-10-1222%12%21%17%6%4%4%14%
2026-10-1326%20%13%13%8%8%2%10%
2026-10-1430%23%13%6%8%4%2%14%
2026-10-1535%21%10%6%8%6%3%10%
2026-10-1631%21%12%8%4%7%5%12%
2026-10-1735%15%15%9%8%6%1%10%
2026-10-1829%14%21%11%4%4%3%14%
2026-10-1926%21%14%9%7%6%6%12%
2026-10-2028%17%14%12%8%4%4%13%
2026-10-2134%13%14%10%7%4%1%18%
2026-10-2231%20%17%12%4%7%1%9%
2026-10-2335%20%17%8%7%4%2%8%
2026-10-2438%23%16%7%3%5%3%6%
2026-10-2531%24%16%7%6%7%1%9%
2026-10-2637%12%17%8%6%10%2%9%
2026-10-2731%22%14%7%7%8%3%9%
2026-10-2824%20%13%3%12%13%3%13%
2026-10-2924%20%17%10%8%8%3%10%
2026-10-3027%15%13%12%5%9%5%13%
2026-10-3134%15%13%7%5%8%4%15%
2026-11-0134%20%20%6%5%6%2%9%
2026-11-0231%17%23%4%6%3%1%15%
2026-11-0329%23%17%6%10%2%1%13%
2026-11-0425%17%25%6%5%3%3%16%
Provider share on the Hacker News front page over 61 days. Color and pattern both identify providers; the data table lists every value.

On the front page today

PeakStoryOn pageServed by
1Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time14hBunny CDN
1The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading11h 45mNetlify
1Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data14hGitHub
1Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too14hCloudflare
1Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders3hCloudflare
1Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.314hApple Inc. own server
1The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer12h 15mFastly
1The Internals of PostgreSQL14hGMO Internet, Inc. own server
1C++26 Disapproved11h 15mnetcup GmbH own server
1Jelly Sheet9h 15mFastly
1Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux4h 15mVercel
1Kitty 0.505hFastly
1AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt1h 45mFastly
2Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand14hAWS own server
2Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot14hGoogle (own edge)
2Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients10hAkamai
2Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers4h 30mCloudflare
3Mac at any scale8h 30mVercel
3Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active11h 30mCloudflare
3The lost malloc()5h 45mCloudflare
3Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues3h 45mAWS CloudFront
3RTX 5090 Street Prices Top $9k as Nvidia GPU Costs Climb30mCloudflare
4Show HN: HackerTV – HN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels14hCloudflare
4Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman3h 15mFastly
4Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random45mGitHub

Recently moved

Hosts that switched providers and stayed put.