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Security Scan Report: news.ycombinator.com

Submitted: Dec 21, 2025, 12:43:20 PMCompleted: Dec 21, 2025, 12:45:49 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 1 IP in 1 country across 1 domain to perform 3 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: 95%

0
Risk Score

No security concerns; site appears legitimate.

Safety Factors
Well-established domain
Established reputation and high ranking
No malicious Indicators of Compromise
No credential or payment collection forms
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Hacker News

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

technology software

(81%)

Domain Information

Domain 'news.ycombinator.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com); it also runs on subdomain 'news'. Count 11 characters in 'ycombinator' containing four vowels alongside 7 consonants. Splitting it apart reveals five words: y, comb, in, at, or. Median word length comes out to 2 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

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

Page Load Overview

30.24s
Total Load Time
3
HTTP Requests
1
Domains
N/A
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:756 chars
Detector Agreement:67%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software81% confidence
Type: static
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software
81%
documentation technical
55%
news media journalism
51%
adult content
48%

Detected Features

No structural features detected

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
3209.216.230.207United States
AS21581M5HOSTING
31--

Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T1D3F2F0E1D1F3607B4A73C2C3B6D53FAAB0D2409DE350090D5EFD869A9BC9D25B4026B9

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

768:o6Mk7u0Xft1zGSXlhxO29qVO3JftYXvZec8ozwLkwCiWneOArzKooJa4ZKb6aOgX:AuZz6ks4qV6y/Uc8CatrWennT11+7yv5

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:34831:ZiEgliEDiq4BCAqOZDED8axw1wBwEp0JS6AAAcBABA2GHIAXISFwwgwQIKgAEKmssBAByDRSwc1GSCABlgJUIxAEqIljRuJR

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:009f3f1f1f3f3f1f
Perceptual Hash:9f7562722a474a47
Difference Hash:5e3e7a7c7d717071
Wavelet Hash:001f3f1f1f1f1f01
Color Hash:#44bf40

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:5e3e7a7c7d717071

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