Security Scan Report: news.ycombinator.com

Submitted: Oct 9, 2025, 8:08:35 PMCompleted: Oct 9, 2025, 8:09:19 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 2 IPs in 1 country across 1 domain to perform 7 HTTP transactions. The main domain is news.ycombinator.com and was registered NaN years ago.

Submitted URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/

The Cisco Umbrella rank of the primary domain is #63,115 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 98%

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Risk Score

The site is a legitimate, well‑established news platform with no security concerns.

Safety Factors
Well‑established domain with long registration history
High Cisco Umbrella ranking indicating reputable site
Absence of malicious Indicators of Compromise
No credential‑harvesting or payment forms
Legitimate brand (Hacker News) on its official domain
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Hacker News

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

technology software

(39%)

Domain Information

You're looking at domain 'news.ycombinator.com' on the commercial generic top-level domain (.com), featuring subdomain 'news'. Count 11 characters in 'ycombinator' split between four vowels and 7 consonants. It segments into five words: y, comb, in, at, or. The median word length lands at two characters. 'y' most often appears in Danish. You will also see it in Spanish and Slovenian contexts.

Screenshot

Security scan screenshot of https://news.ycombinator.com/

Page Load Overview

11.47s
Total Load Time
7
HTTP Requests
1
Domains
1 KB
Total Size

Language Analysis

Primary Language

🇺🇸English
Code: en
Confidence:80%
Script:Latin
Direction:ltr

Detection Details

Language Code:en
Detection Confidence:80%
Script Type:Latin
HTML Lang Attribute:en
Text Length:3,961 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software39% confidence
Type: static
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software
39%

Detected Features

Search

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
4209.216.230.207United States
AS21581M5HOSTING
32606:7100:1:67::26United States
AS21581M5HOSTING
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Detected Technologies1

40%

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T1B6F2F0D1D1F3257B5B23D7C6B6D53FDAA0E2409CE35009085FBE87EA5BC9D217001AA9

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

768:78Jz+s91/Tg0/hWMRSV43x5vnuk04AaPu91VHoDr7d8Ek0edJ195Htl4PbwEkcB2:QF1DrtpVRsQ7voN4K9wr76NtdJLuUE92

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:35044:CGYUAIbqIIEwyAmSRASMKERMBYEgQsXYHQIwB4YwE8BELEYLYHIzABhwaYlAUBCoACC0QolwBQnEGAgM1AADcYADAIFAOFGC

These hashes enable detection of similar websites and malware variants by comparing content similarity even when exact matches aren't found.

Image Hashes

Perceptual Hashes

Average Hash:01bfbfbfbfbfbfbf
Perceptual Hash:9f6b2a3e2a6a2a2a
Difference Hash:6363636363636161
Wavelet Hash:009f1f1f1d0d1d1d
Color Hash:#53ac8d

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:6363636363636161

Scan History

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