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1 in 10 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 72 analyzed today 9,441 all-time

AI-generated · Last 24 hours

21%
15 of 72 stories
14-DAY TREND ↑ +1pp WoW
Today
21%
↓ 2pp vs yesterday
7-day average
20%
↑ +1pp WoW
30-day average
18%
↑ +4pp MoM
Detector accuracy
99.98%
Pangram v3.3 · published
1

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com)

▲ 115 33 comments by epestr 4h ago
Human
0% AI
2

A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)

▲ 223 45 comments by aanet 3d ago
Mixed
23% AI
3

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)

▲ 645 389 comments by tosh 17h ago
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4

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (genesisopenmodels.anl.gov)

▲ 239 86 comments by moelf 13h ago
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5

New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (nytimes.com)

▲ 25 6 comments by sbulaev 47m ago
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6

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)

▲ 694 776 comments by RickJWagner 22h ago
Human
3% AI
7

Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com)

▲ 350 89 comments by piotrgrabowski 17h ago
Human
10% AI
8

ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com)

▲ 24 2 comments by csmantle 6d ago
Human
0% AI
9

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)

▲ 11 0 comments by 01-_- 56m ago
Human
0% AI
10

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)

▲ 245 45 comments by wglb 9h ago
Human
0% AI
11

SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)

▲ 113 23 comments by zdw 7d ago
Human
0% AI
12

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)

▲ 210 68 comments by aagha 16h ago
AI
64% AI
13

Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices (nytimes.com)

▲ 6 5 comments by Korwell 39m ago
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14

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (discourse.nixos.org)

▲ 308 148 comments by Meleagris 10h ago
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15

Tell Abu Hureyra (prehistoric archaeological site) (en.wikipedia.org)

▲ 7 0 comments by dieselgate 5d ago
Human
0% AI
16

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)

▲ 378 347 comments by inigyou 1d ago
Human
0% AI
17

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (databricks.com)

▲ 244 204 comments by moonikakiss 16h ago
Human
1% AI
18

US Military's Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide (bloomberg.com)

▲ 12 2 comments by rbanffy 50m ago
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19

Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses (github.com)

▲ 3 1 comments by aadisang 4d ago
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20

From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)

▲ 18 0 comments by denismenace 4d ago
Human
2% AI
21

Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)

▲ 94 41 comments by yk 4d ago
AI
100% AI
22

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (sdss.org)

▲ 169 38 comments by MarcoDewey 19h ago
Mixed
17% AI
23

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)

▲ 188 178 comments by artninja1988 18h ago
Human
1% AI
24

Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)

▲ 174 22 comments by cckolon 7d ago
Human
0% AI
25

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (app.dealroom.co)

▲ 476 340 comments by delduca 17h ago
AI
68% AI
26

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)

▲ 151 102 comments by jnord 22h ago
Human
0% AI
27

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)

▲ 291 142 comments by poly2it 24h ago
Human
2% AI
28

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (blog.cloudflare.com)

▲ 194 52 comments by m3h 1d ago
Human
6% AI
29

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com)

▲ 71 4 comments by theanonymousone 16h ago
Human
0% AI
30

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)

▲ 71 7 comments by birdculture 5d ago
Human
5% AI

Comparison view

Hacker News’ ranking vs. AI probability

Top 12 · curves connect the same article
Ranked by HN upvotes
1 Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
2 A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava
3 DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
4 U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
5 New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
6 What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
7 Assembly Hall of Shame
8 ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)
9 Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
10 NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
11 SupererDuperer
12 Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
Ranked by AI probability
Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years 100%
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK 68%
Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it 64%
A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava 23%
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes 17%
Assembly Hall of Shame 10%
Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates 6%
Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) 5%
What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers 3%
From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree 2%
Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD 2%
Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale 1%