Security Scan Report: news.ycombinator.com

Submitted: Nov 12, 2025, 3:03:25 PMCompleted: Nov 12, 2025, 3:04:45 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 2 IPs in 0 countries 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/

AI Security Verdict

High Risk

Confidence: 80%

7
Risk Score

Likely phishing site impersonating Google on an unrelated domain.

Risk Factors
Brand impersonation on an unrelated, unranked domain
Unranked domain increases suspicion for brand claims
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Hacker News

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

technology software

(87%)

Domain Information

The domain 'news.ycombinator.com' uses the commercial generic top-level domain (.com) with subdomain 'news'. Its registrable label 'ycombinator' stretches across 11 characters split between 4 vowels and 7 consonants. Tokenizing the label suggests 5 words: y, comb, in, at, or. Median word length is two characters. No strong language cues emerged from the frequency lists.

Screenshot

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

Page Load Overview

51.27s
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:3,953 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software87% confidence
Type: static
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software
87%
documentation technical
59%
news media journalism
35%
cryptocurrency blockchain
31%

Detected Features

Search

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
4209.216.230.207UnknownUnknown
32606:7100:1:67::26UnknownUnknown
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Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

Image Hashes

Perceptual Hashes

Average Hash:N/A
Perceptual Hash:N/A
Difference Hash:N/A
Wavelet Hash:N/A
Color Hash:N/A

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:N/A

Scan History

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