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      <description>Real data from today's Show HN leaderboard: 10 launches, average AI readiness score 38.5/100, nothing above a C grade. What the numbers say about how builders think about AI discoverability.</description>
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      <description>ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews decide what to cite based on three files you control. A practical walkthrough with real data from the top 100 websites — plus free tools to audit your own site.</description>
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      <description>We scanned 10 of the biggest developer-tool sites on AI readiness. GitHub, GitLab, Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, Heroku and more. Real numbers. A few surprises.</description>
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      <description>Interactive leaderboard of the top 100 websites ranked by AI readiness in April 2026. Sort and filter by llms.txt, GPTBot/ClaudeBot rules, bot cloaking, and LLM knowability. Data nobody else has.</description>
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      <description>We ran a multi-signal AI readiness scan against the top 100 websites in April 2026. Here is what the data shows about llms.txt adoption, AI bot rules, training data presence, and bot cloaking.</description>
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      <title>We Graded 20 of the Internet's Biggest Websites. The Results Are Surprising. - ZeroKit.dev</title>
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      <description>We ran 20 of the biggest websites through our Website Grader. Amazon scored an F. Google got a D. See the full leaderboard and check your own site.</description>
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      <description>Master CSS Flexbox with this practical guide. Learn every flex container and item property, common layout patterns like centering, navigation bars, and card grids, with copy-ready code.</description>
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      <description>Understand how DNS works: trace a query from browser to root server, learn about A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, and TXT records, TTL, propagation delays, and how to troubleshoot DNS issues.</description>
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      <description>Understand how cryptographic hash functions work, compare MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-3, and learn which algorithm to use for passwords, checksums, data integrity, and digital signatures.</description>
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      <description>Learn regular expressions from scratch. This beginner-friendly regex tutorial covers syntax, quantifiers, character classes, groups, lookaheads, and practical patterns for email, URL, and phone validation.</description>
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      <description>Learn what SSL/TLS certificates do, how to check certificate validity, common certificate errors and how to fix them, and how to verify certificates from the command line and online.</description>
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