A private Kubernetes cluster for a personal website
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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked
A personal website runs on a private Azure Kubernetes Service cluster with no public API endpoint and no inbound ports: Cloudflare Tunnel carries traffic out, Cilium policies restrict pod-to-pod access, and workload identity replaces stored Azure credentials.
Why it ranked
No. 73 of 155 with a score of 0.60. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.94) and technical depth (0.93), lowest on significance (0.37).
- AI judgeJudge 2claude-haiku-5-5
- A very detailed, well-substantiated engineering write-up of a private AKS cluster setup with concrete configs, costs and trade-offs; practical for DevOps builders but a personal-scale project with narrow audience reach.
- AI judgeJudge 3gpt-5.6-luna
- Detailed first-person engineering write-up covering private AKS, GitOps, workload identity, observability, security, deployment automation, and cost trade-offs. It is highly actionable, though the scope is a personal site rather than a field-changing development.
Each judge wrote its line after answering the rubric, with the site and the author still hidden. Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.
Score
0.60total under rubric v2.2
- Significance0.37
- Reader interest0.74
- Audience breadth0.41
- Practical relevance0.74
- Substantiated0.81
- Technical depth0.93
- New information0.94
- Counts against: Promotional0.08
- Counts against: Overclaim0.13
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Significance | 0.40 | 0.30 | 0.42 | 0.37 | 0.12 | +0.24 | +0.090 |
| Reader interest | 0.72 | 0.72 | 0.78 | 0.74 | 0.06 | +0.26 | +0.192 |
| Audience breadth | 0.49 | 0.40 | 0.34 | 0.41 | 0.15 | +0.13 | +0.053 |
| Practical relevance | 0.85 | 0.60 | 0.76 | 0.74 | 0.26 | +0.22 | +0.162 |
| Substantiated | 0.88 | 0.72 | 0.82 | 0.81 | 0.16 | +0.05 | +0.040 |
| Technical depth | 0.99 | 0.92 | 0.88 | 0.93 | 0.12 | +0.05 | +0.047 |
| New information | 0.93 | 0.90 | 0.98 | 0.94 | 0.08 | +0.05 | +0.047 |
| Promotional | 0.04 | 0.12 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.08 | −0.19 | −0.015 |
| Overclaim | 0.12 | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.03 | −0.11 | −0.014 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.602 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.602 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.
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