The Hacker News

In September 2026, @thehackernews reached 3.3% of its 162,225 subscribers per post (5,307 average views), placing it in the lower half of tracked channels its size, an ordinary result. The benchmark is 8,298 tracked channels with 100K-500K subscribers, whose median reach is 6.0%.

Views per subscriber

3.3%

Percentile for its size

34/ 100

Views per post

5,307

Band median

6.0%

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

Measured against 8,298 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