Security Scan Report: news.ycombinator.com

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Submitted: Dec 24, 2025, 9:56:25 PMCompleted: Dec 24, 2025, 9:56:59 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 1 IP in 1 country across 1 domain to perform 8 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, no security concerns detected.

Safety Factors
Well‑established domain
High Cisco Umbrella ranking
No suspicious forms or data collection
No malicious Indicators of Compromise
Content matches known legitimate service
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Hacker News

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

technology software

(69%)

Domain Information

Within the commercial generic top-level domain (.com), 'news.ycombinator.com' is registered with subdomain 'news'. The registrable portion 'ycombinator' spans 11 characters containing 4 vowels alongside 7 consonants. Breaking it apart gives 5 words: y, comb, in, at, or. The median word length lands at 2 characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

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

Page Load Overview

5.34s
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:3,928 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software69% confidence
Type: static
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software
69%
documentation technical
59%
social media network
44%
adult content
26%

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

T1DDF2DED0D1F3643B5A33C2C7B6E53FAAB1D2419CE3500D0D5AFD46EA9BC9D25B0026A9

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

768:AxQu1ygkZjjVbY070m1hmgIbAy+X/4/IAGF5zE0IECC+oO67EZyEUV5nk9V3H1JS:8lQzv6A1bmGyepFyTi+Q7gai5SBpDIxK

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:34720:WwBDoIQAUFQABgRmeLBoKMoEWokOJBcObgBSDKOIKICAGkGCDIAQQAExyQLASJSYAACZRX1YjrQAh0QJEakiAHMAjfAiUdCU

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:01bfbfbf9fbfbfbf
Perceptual Hash:9f3a2a3a3a2e6a2a
Difference Hash:7373636373736371
Wavelet Hash:008f1f1f8d0d0f8f
Color Hash:#79d2a6

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:7373636373736371

Scan History

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