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1 in 15 stories on the front page today is AI-generated.

Every story in the HN top 30, scored by Pangram for AI-written content. Sort and filter the list below, or see how the AI ranking lines up against Hacker News’ own.

Scored with Pangram 71 analyzed today 8,300 all-time

AI-generated · Last 24 hours

10%
7 of 71 stories
14-DAY TREND ↓ 2pp WoW
Today
10%
↓ 11pp vs yesterday
7-day average
15%
↓ 2pp WoW
30-day average
15%
↑ +1pp MoM
Detector accuracy
99.98%
Pangram v3.3 · published
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98.css (jdan.github.io)

▲ 279 58 comments by lopespm 5h ago
Human
0% AI
2

Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)

▲ 1027 494 comments by dwwoelfel 13h ago
Human
0% AI
3

The Visual 6502 (visual6502.org)

▲ 61 16 comments by infiniteregrets 3h ago
Human
1% AI
4

Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models (news.ycombinator.com)

▲ 256 123 comments by adam_rida 8h ago
Human
0% AI
5

The Beam Engine (glinscott.github.io)

▲ 190 60 comments by glinscott 2d ago
Human
6% AI
6

What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)

▲ 308 134 comments by nickthegreek 10h ago
Human
1% AI
7

Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (politico.com)

▲ 761 673 comments by theanonymousone 12h ago
Human
0% AI
8

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com)

▲ 202 155 comments by dhorthy 12h ago
Human
2% AI
9

Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)

▲ 252 49 comments by mpweiher 13h ago
Human
8% AI
10

Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)

▲ 134 64 comments by speckx 9h ago
Human
0% AI
11

A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025) (arxiv.org)

▲ 59 47 comments by amelius 4h ago
Human
0% AI
12

Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)

▲ 191 103 comments by ibobev 12h ago
Human
0% AI
13

Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com)

▲ 128 20 comments by harrisontin 12h ago
Human
0% AI
14

Freeze-Casting (en.wikipedia.org)

▲ 4 0 comments by soupspaces 4d ago
Human
1% AI
15

Fractl.art – a fractal generator with 8 octillion different patterns (fractl.art)

▲ 17 2 comments by gilded-lilly 4d ago
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16

DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (darpa.mil)

▲ 191 214 comments by r2sk5t 13h ago
Human
1% AI
17

Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (eso.org)

▲ 198 76 comments by MarcoDewey 13h ago
Human
4% AI
18

Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents (news.ycombinator.com)

▲ 62 49 comments by louis030195 10h ago
Human
0% AI
19

A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (pme.uchicago.edu)

▲ 75 18 comments by MarcoDewey 9h ago
Human
0% AI
20

Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (wuemeli.com)

▲ 54 17 comments by wuemeli 3d ago
Human
3% AI
21

The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)

▲ 215 151 comments by jjfoooo4 10h ago
Human
0% AI
22

Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com)

▲ 81 29 comments by Jonathanfishner 11h ago
AI
99% AI
23

OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)

▲ 406 331 comments by abhisek 1d ago
Human
1% AI
24

Police Removed Prominent Scientists from the ADA Meeting. Researchers Respond (the-scientist.com)

▲ 20 5 comments by fosco 57m ago
Human
0% AI
25

Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com)

▲ 80 69 comments by s0ck_r4w 10h ago
AI
99% AI
26

Mourning Dan Williams (lwn.net)

▲ 30 0 comments by speckx 7h ago
Human
2% AI
27

Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust (soteria-tools.com)

▲ 59 0 comments by annieversary 4d ago
Human
0% AI
28

Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)

▲ 89 11 comments by ibobev 12h ago
Human
0% AI
29

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)

▲ 615 303 comments by technewssss 14h ago
Human
0% AI
30

Emacs Is a Lispboard (en.andros.dev)

▲ 97 51 comments by andros 13h ago
Human
1% AI

Comparison view

Hacker News’ ranking vs. AI probability

Top 12 · curves connect the same article
Ranked by HN upvotes
1 98.css
2 Writing by hand is good for your brain
3 The Visual 6502
4 Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
5 The Beam Engine
6 What happened to TheNumbers.com
7 Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
8 Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
9 Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
10 Building on ATProto
11 A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025)
12 Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL
Ranked by AI probability
Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents 99%
Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you 99%
Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ 8%
The Beam Engine 6%
Astronomers may have found the first exomoon 4%
Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds 3%
Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) 2%
Mourning Dan Williams 2%
The Visual 6502 1%
What happened to TheNumbers.com 1%
Freeze-Casting 1%
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 1%