AI Visibility Scorecard
HackerNews
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl HackerNews, but the structured-data signals are thin - you are at real risk of being skipped when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity for a recommendation.
AI engines read this profile 1 times
Claude
3
AEO Visibility
iNear-invisible · 3.1/10
0
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Not agent-ready · 0/100
0
AI Adoption
iNone detected · 0/100
About HackerNews
from our crawl and measurement
"黑客声称窃取大公司 360 万条 Azure 账户记录 作者: hackernews 日期: 2026-08-18 分类: 黑客事件 威胁行为者声称利用被入侵的凭证，从多家财富 500 强公司的 Microsoft Azure 基础设施中窃取了大量员工数据库并正在出售。自 7 月 31 日起，使用化名 TheHatman." That is how hackernews.cc introduces itself. To AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, though, it is barely visible: it scores 3.1 out of 10.
The site is missing structured data describing the business, an llms.txt file and a sitemap.
The 6 signals AI reads
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Weak
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
Fair
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
Weak
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
Weak
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
Fair
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
Good
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
Weak
No inbound links found yet.
Domain Authority
Weak
Little domain authority yet.
Reference Presence
Weak
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
Weak
No press coverage found yet.
Community
Weak
No community discussion yet.
Social Mentions
Weak
No social discussion found yet.
What this score means
Your AEO score measures whether AI search engines - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini - can actually read your site and cite it in answers. Roughly two-thirds of sites are invisible to them. At 3.1/10, HackerNews is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on August 19, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/hackernews-cc
Cite this score: Engagemii (2026). "AEO Score for HackerNews." Retrieved from https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/hackernews-cc
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