Security Scan Report: news.ycombinator.com

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Submitted: Nov 24, 2025, 12:26:07 PMCompleted: Nov 24, 2025, 12:28:05 PMpubliccompleted
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Summary

This website contacted 2 IPs 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: 96%

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Risk Score

Legitimate site with no security concerns.

Safety Factors
Well‑established domain with long registration history
High Cisco Umbrella ranking indicating reputable site
No credential‑harvesting or payment forms
No external links to suspicious domains
Domain age information unavailable

Details

Page Title

Hacker News

Scan Type

public

Language

🇺🇸

English

(80% confidence)

Category

technology software

(77%)

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 four vowels and seven consonants. Breaking it apart gives 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

1.04s
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:3,992 chars
Detector Agreement:100%

Website Classification

Primary Category

technology software77% confidence
Type: static
Method: ml+structural

All Detected Categories

technology software
77%
documentation technical
38%

Detected Features

Search

Domain & IP Information

RequestsIP AddressLocationAS Autonomous System
8209.216.230.207United States
AS21581M5HOSTING
42606:7100:1:67::26United States
AS21581M5HOSTING
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Content Similarity HashesFor malware variant detection

TLSH (Trend Micro Locality Sensitive Hash)

Security-focused

Specialized for malware detection and similarity analysis

T10CF211E0D2F3307B4723C2C7B6D53FDAA0D2819DE391090C5EBE86EA5BC9D25B501669

ssdeep (Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Context-aware

Detects similar content even with modifications

768:Xr947lpVlkWlqjFAxArnMy/xcGLs4DBY6OEeOVazAymr1lPKwqTGsX+RuK26Lawb:7UP/tl+F9rn/GGYkiqBPhPChj+CpRL+/

sdhash (Similarity Digest Hashing)

High-precision

High-precision similarity detection for forensic analysis

sdhash:3:34770:fpgNNCH8IBhUCQkEuGZABAAJgAyE5TCQSkjSBkVQDKoIEARgiIG1XkJAIoEYeFEYABn4aIEoSK3wGynI8AAyKAOQOPCOUAAA

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:01bf9fbf9fbf9f9f
Perceptual Hash:bf7a2a3a2a2a2a3a
Difference Hash:7373636373636371
Wavelet Hash:008f0f1f0f1f1f0f
Color Hash:#b687c5

Other Hashes

Crop Resistant:7373636373636371

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