Security Scan Report: news.ycombinator.com

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Submitted: Dec 24, 2025, 9:33:41 PMCompleted: Dec 24, 2025, 9:34:15 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 1 IP in 1 country across 1 domain to perform 24 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 #56,556 of the top 1 million websites

AI Security Verdict

Safe Website

Confidence: 98%

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Risk Score

Legitimate site with no detected security concerns.

Safety Factors
Established domain with long registration history
High reputation ranking
No suspicious forms or data collection
No external malicious links
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Hacker News

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

healthcare medical

(48%)

Domain Information

The domain 'news.ycombinator.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com) with subdomain 'news'. The registrable portion 'ycombinator' spans 11 characters with 4 vowels and 7 consonants. Segmentation suggests five words: y, comb, in, at, or. Median word length comes out to two characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

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

Page Load Overview

1.64s
Total Load Time
8
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:3,940 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

healthcare medical48% confidence
Type: static
Method: ml+structural+ocr_tiebreaker

All Detected Categories

healthcare medical
48%
technology software
43%
social media network
33%
documentation technical
33%

Detected Features

Search

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
8209.216.230.207United States
AS21581M5HOSTING
81--

Detected Technologies2

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T1ABF2EED0D1F3643B5A33C2C7B6D63FAAB1D2419CE350090D5EFD46EA9BC9D25B0026A9

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

768:Axm3bO8NFOIbG3GAv5KVfmbaFfzzcUqf+dqPWV5Xk7EEdD16N2IC67YB7B6R/LvP:8uCZ2G7xmm2FP9q+cGQWAe7C94TmyXyy

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:34789:rhAaaSWCiJAharRYkUFkHCUpmkcCEQ2BrUQUACUdDsFVN4IoBjkJQCC4rxwAQDCqUBggsALAAaggBlBIBBAhV4SosSKDSHgK

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:01bfbf9fbf9f9fbf
Perceptual Hash:bf6a2a3a2a3a2a6a
Difference Hash:7373636373737371
Wavelet Hash:008f1f1f1d0d0f9f
Color Hash:#3a783f

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:7373636373737371

Scan History

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