Privacy Policy
Last updated 9 July 2026
Hacker News Insights (hni.tr3.xyz) is privacy-respecting by default. In plain terms: it doesn't track you.
What this site doesn't do
- No cookies. None are set.
- No client-side trackers or third-party analytics. No Google Analytics, no pixels, no profiling scripts. Our host, Cloudflare, counts page requests server-side to measure overall traffic — with no cookies, no JavaScript added to the page, and nothing stored that identifies you.
- No advertising and no selling of data.
- No accounts. Reading the site never requires a login, name, or email.
What stays on your device
To show a “new since your last visit” note, your browser may store a single value in local storage — the date of the data you last saw. It lives only on your device, is never sent anywhere, and can be cleared any time in your browser settings.
The suggestion form
A submitted suggestion sends your idea, an optional category, and any optional detail. Those are stored anonymously — no IP address, and no name or email, is ever kept with them. You may optionally add your name and email if you'd like a reply; if you do, they are used only to send that reply — they go straight to the owner's inbox, are never stored on this site, never shown, never shared, and never added to any list, and the stored suggestion itself stays anonymous. Submissions may be grouped and summarized to decide what to build; an idea may be acted on without attribution.
To keep out spam, the form uses a hidden honeypot field and Cloudflare Turnstile, a privacy-focused bot check that doesn't track users across sites. Cloudflare may process your IP address transiently to deliver the site and block abuse, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. The form relay keeps only a one-way SHA-256 digest of the address with an abuse counter for at most one hour; the raw address is never stored, and the digest is never attached to a suggestion or message.
The contact form
The contact form sends your name (optional), email address, subject, and message to the site owner's inbox so they can reply. It isn't published, isn't added to any mailing list, and isn't used for anything but answering you. Your email is used only as the reply address; the relay can only ever email the owner, no one else. Delivered messages live in the owner's own inbox under their provider's policy — nothing from the contact form is stored on this site.
The published data
The charts here are aggregate statistics computed from public Hacker News data (Y Combinator's official API and public datasets). They describe the subject in aggregate; they aren't about you.
Your California privacy rights (CCPA/CPRA)
For California residents: personal information is what you voluntarily submit — through the suggestion form (your idea, optional category, optional detail, and an optional name and email only if you want a reply) or the contact form (name optional, email, subject, message) — plus a one-way network-address digest retained for at most one hour solely to enforce abuse limits. No raw IP address, geolocation, biometric data, or behavioral inference is stored. Information is used only for the stated purpose: the anonymous idea, category, and detail are retained up to 180 days, while any name/email you add for a reply — and every contact-form message — are delivered to the owner's inbox and not stored here. It is never sold or shared, including for cross-context behavioral advertising. You may know/access, delete, correct, and port what you submitted, without discrimination for exercising those rights.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date above is updated, and material changes are noted in the changelog.
Questions: use the contact form.