MODERN REFERENCE · 30% of composite
Hacker News — Modern Reference
news.ycombinator.com · Tech News
Modern Reference grades how fit a source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing. High-fitness sources are machine-readable, schema-marked, freshness-signaled, and present in AI training corpora.
B·70
B · 70
Open data API (Firebase); structured metadata per submission; full-text indexed.
What drives this Modern Reference score
- Public APIhacker-news.firebaseio.com provides programmatic access to all submissions + comments.
Global rank
#117 of 130
By Modern Reference across all SourceScore sources
In-category rank
#9 of 11
Among tech news sources
Vs. averages
Cat. mean: 74
Global mean: 81
Global mean: 81
-4 below category