Speaker summary
26%17 analyzed articles/videos338.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These The Hacker News results contain 8 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Confirmation Bias, and Anecdotal, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 11.4% saturation with 94 hits. Analysis detected 400 faulty-reasoning hits from 338.667 analyzed words across 17 articles, generating a BS Score of 6.1% and a BS Rank of 4% (27,248 of 28,364 speakers). This The Hacker News is better (less manipulative) than 96.10% of the peer group.
The Hacker News
Speaker details
Total words: 338.667
Article count: 17
Authors

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

4% percentile
02550751003.9% percentile
6.1% BS Score17 analyzed videos338.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–25%
0.0%5%10%15%20%25%Composition/DivisionSitewide 0.2%Speaker 4.2%4.2%Attempt to Sell a Product…Sitewide 0.5%Speaker 3.4%3.4%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 11.4%11.4%False DilemmaSitewide 1.5%Speaker 3.8%3.8%Recency BiasSitewide 2.7%Speaker 3.8%3.8%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Speaker 4.2%4.2%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 6.9%6.9%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 10.8%10.8%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%5%5%10%10%15%15%20%20%25%25%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 11.4%, sitewide 9.1%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 10.8%, sitewide 11.1%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 6.9%, sitewide 7.5%Anecdotal: Speaker 4.2%, sitewide 5.2%Composition/Division: Speaker 4.2%, sitewide 0.2%False Dilemma: Speaker 3.8%, sitewide 1.5%Recency Bias: Speaker 3.8%, sitewide 2.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service: Speaker 3.4%, sitewide 0.5%Availability HeuristicSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

Researcher Publishes GitLab RCE PoC Letting Authenticated Users Run Commands as Git7%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal11%7/25/2026, 3:14:00 AM
Russian Espionage Group Exploited Zimbra Zero-Day to Steal Mail and 2FA Codes14%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal11%7/23/2026, 11:36:08 AM
GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier27%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal11%7/22/2026, 11:37:42 AM
AWS Kiro Flaw Let a Poisoned Web Page Rewrite Its Config and Run Code23%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal11%7/21/2026, 9:06:00 AM
Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber AI to Find and Fix Software Vulnerabilities56%
The Hacker News17%By Ravie Lakshmanan12%7/21/2026, 8:09:00 AM
Open-Source Android AI Agents Could Let Invisible Screen Text Run Code on Host PCs15%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal11%7/21/2026, 4:58:00 AM
Exposed Server Reveals AI-Assisted Phishing Toolkit Behind WebDAV Malware Campaign31%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal11%7/20/2026, 10:29:00 AM
Russian Intelligence Hacks IP Cameras to Spy on Military Logistics Across NATO States and Ukraine65%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal11%7/20/2026, 5:13:00 AM
OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests32%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal11%7/17/2026, 1:20:53 PM
New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens51%
The Hacker News17%By Swati Khandelwal11%7/17/2026, 10:12:00 AM