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Flocking Boids

Explore swarm intelligence and emergent AI behavior in this interactive boids simulator with predator-prey gameplay.

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Added April 27, 2026 · Last analysed April 27, 2026 · via Hacker News

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Flocking Boids is missing several launch fundamentals. What needs work: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no robots.txt or sitemap.

Launched on Hacker News on April 26, 2026. The site is hosted on DigitalOcean in the United States, with a domain registered in 2024. Our crawler found 6 technologies on this site, covering analytics, advertising, DNS providers, and business email. The stack includes Google Ads, Google Analytics, and Microsoft Clarity.

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1.9
StackScope Score
Poor
67/100 Launch Readiness
Well prepared
0/6 Security Headers
Poor
0/3 Legal
Missing
0/2 Crawl files
Missing
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 (6)

Infrastructure
DNS Namecheap DNS
Server nginx (2)
Email
Business email PrivateEmail (2)
Analytics & Marketing
Advertising Google Ads (3)
Analytics Google Analytics (3)
Microsoft Clarity

Infrastructure

Network
DIGITALOCEAN-ASN - DigitalOcean, LLC, US
AS14061 · US
DNS
Namecheap 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 1 Mar 2026 to 30 May 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
2.4 years
Registered Apr 2024 · NameCheap, Inc.

Email Security

✓
SPF ~all Soft-fail (~all). Common and accepted.
?
DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
✗
DMARC Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.
?
MTA-STS Not deployed. Mail to your domain can be downgraded to plaintext en route.
?
TLS-RPT Not configured. You won't hear about silent SMTP TLS handshake failures.

Storage (4)

Cookies (3)
NameLifetimeDetected as
_ga 1y Google Analytics
_ga_4C9P69MNE3 1y Google Analytics
_gcl_au 3mo Google Ads
Local storage (1)
KeySizeDetected as
_gcl_ls 152 B Google Ads

Readiness Breakdown How?

✓ Custom title and meta description
⚠
Open Graph tags (title, image, description) (partial) missing og:image
✓ Twitter card meta tags
✓ Responsive viewport meta tag
✓ Favicon present
⚠
Page title is 78 characters (advisory) Google only shows about 60 characters of the title in search results; aim for 50–60 to keep the whole thing visible.
⚠
Meta description is 192 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.
- Canonical URL declared
- Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)

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
? Consent manager not detected
Analytics set tracking cookies on our visit, with no opt-in step.
Detection works best on English language sites.

Security Headers (0/6)

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

Performance

473ms response time
Faster than 33% of sites
3 third-party domains loaded

Build

3 JS files
0 CSS files
3 Third-party domains
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