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World Models 101

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Added August 24, 2026 · Last analysed August 24, 2026 · via Hacker News

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World Models 101 is early-stage. Main gaps: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no robots.txt or sitemap.

Launched on Hacker News on August 23, 2026. The site is hosted on Vercel, with a domain registered 1 week before launch. We've detected 8 technologies on this site, covering analytics, CSS frameworks, DNS providers, and frameworks. The stack includes Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS.

It's on one of the most common stacks we track, shared by 13,820 launches.

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3.3
StackScope Score
Poor
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
1/6 Security Headers
Poor
0/3 Legal
Missing
0/2 Crawl files
Missing
100/100 Performance
Fast
Vibe Score 0 · No AI signals
How much the site looks AI-generated. Informational pattern-match signal, not a verdict. Does not feed the StackScope Score. See which fingerprints fired →

Tech Stack (8)

Infrastructure
DNS Vercel DNS
Hosting Vercel
Security HSTS
Build & Framework
CSS framework Tailwind CSS
Framework React
JavaScript library Motion
Meta-framework Next.js (5)
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics Vercel Analytics medium

Infrastructure

Network
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US
AS16509 · US
DNS
Vercel DNS
Authoritative nameserver
DNSSEC
Not enabled
DNS responses unsigned. Cache-poisoning vulnerable.
Green hosting
Not green hosted
No green-energy record. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 19 Aug 2026 to 17 Nov 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
8 days
Registered Aug 2026 · NameCheap, Inc.

Email Security

✗
SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.
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DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
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DMARC Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.
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MTA-STS Not deployed. Mail to your domain can be downgraded to plaintext en route.
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TLS-RPT Not configured. You won't hear about silent SMTP TLS handshake failures.

Storage (0)

This site uses no client-side storage we could detect on page load.

Readiness Breakdown How?

✓ Custom title and meta description
✓ Open Graph tags (title, image, description)
✓ Twitter card meta tags
✓ Canonical URL declared
✓ Responsive viewport meta tag
✓ Favicon present
✓ Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)
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Meta description is 196 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 155–160 characters of the description in desktop search results (less on mobile); anything past that won't appear.

Performance How?

424 ms Server response
38% Faster than peers
900 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
783 KB Page weight
76 KB Image weight
2 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

⚠ 3 images: 1 oversized, 3 without width/height, 3 missing alt text

Indicative grade from a single automated render, not a substitute for Lighthouse or field data, and not part of the StackScope score.

AI Stance

No AI stance declared
✗ llms.txt published
✓ No AI bots blocked in robots.txt
Content-Signal
? No directive declared
Link headers
? None advertised

Well-Known Files

✗ robots.txt
✗ sitemap.xml
✗ security.txt
✗ llms.txt
✗ ads.txt
✗ humans.txt

Legal

? Privacy Policy not detected
? Terms of Service not detected
? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).
Detection works best on English language sites.

Security Headers (1/6)

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Referrer-Policy
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X-Frame-Options
✗
Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)
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X-Content-Type-Options
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Content-Security-Policy
✓
Strict-Transport-Security
–
X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

✓ Code splitting
14 JS files
1 CSS files
2 Third-party domains

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