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SI Score: 60/100
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What it does

Numlock News is Walt Hickey's English-language newsletter using numbers as entry points into stories about business, culture and public life.

An edition moves between subjects through specific figures and short explanations. Follow a linked source when you want to see the context behind a statistic or explore the story further. The weekday edition is free and ad-free. Paid membership adds a Sunday edition with journalist and author interviews, plus commenting.

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Readers who enjoy number-led news discoveries

Sources

Numlock News | Walter Hickey | Substack (Oct 26, 2026)
Numlock News (Oct 26, 2026)
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SI Score

60/100

#38 in Newsletters

Based on published information. No hands-on task test.

Method 2.0 · Published source review Assessed Oct 26, 2026Score ceiling for this evidence: 84/100.

Product usefulness 60

Evidence

60: Short selected news stories support a specific morning-orientation reading task. The retained source does not establish a complete workflow with explicit access boundaries.

Limits: AI review of saved source passages. No hands-on test, human approval or automatic-provider checker receipt.

Source links and check dates are in Sources and checks below.

Separate website checks

These checks do not add points to the SI Score. They inspect the website's HTML, not the product in use.

Basic website checksunknown

No check recorded.

HTML accessibility checksunknown

No check recorded.

Homepage HTML responseunknown

No check recorded.

Trackers in homepage HTMLunknown

No check recorded.

Page date hintsunknown

No check recorded.

Policy links do not verify a company's conduct. An HTML response time is not application speed. Tracker and accessibility checks miss behavior after page load. Copyright dates do not prove product upkeep.

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Unconfirmed details may be unassessed, absent from the pages checked or temporarily unreadable. A missing price does not mean the service is free.

Sources and checks

Supporting pages for product usefulness, site facts, prices and separate website checks. Each record keeps its own date. Reading a page does not establish how well the product performs in use.

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- PricingAI reading, not confirmedChecked Oct 26, 2026
  Weekday editions are free; paid membership adds the Sunday edition and commenting.
- Product usefulness evidenceChecked Oct 26, 2026
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- Product usefulness evidenceChecked Oct 26, 2026

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