The Hacker News

In September 2026, @thehackernews reached 2.6% of its 162,337 subscribers per post (4,296 average views), placing it in the lower half of tracked channels its size, an ordinary result. The benchmark is 8,387 tracked channels with 100K-500K subscribers, whose median reach is 6.0%.

Views per subscriber

2.6%

Percentile for its size

28/ 100

Views per post

4,296

Band median

6.0%

Post reach is in the ordinary range for a channel this size. Nothing here suggests bought subscribers.

Measured against 8,387 tracked channels with 100K-500K subscribers. Views per subscriber falls as a channel grows, so @thehackernews is only ever compared with channels of its own size.

How the Telegram reach score is calculated