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Tech press First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #157 most-AI domain

— What we found

Articles from arstechnica.com are almost always human-written.

arstechnica.com has had 23 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 9% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 8%.

AI verdict · all time
9%
Reliably human
Lower than most domains we track.
Human 91% Mixed 0% AI 9%
WEEK ON WEEK flat
MONTH ON MONTH ↓ 29pp
Articles analyzed
23
all-time on HN
Median AI score
5%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
0%
0 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
91%
21 articles < 10%

— Distribution

How AI scores spread

23 articles · 10% buckets
21
2
0–1010–2020–3030–4040–5050–6060–7070–8080–9090–100
HUMAN · 0–30%
MIXED · 30–70%
AI · 70–100%

— Trend

AI score by day

Per-day average
70 · AI → 30 · mixed →
earlierlatest
30d avg 5% Min 0% Max 67% Trend ↓ falling

— Sample articles

At three score levels

A snapshot of what arstechnica.com puts on the front page.

— Peer comparison

arstechnica.com vs. similar sources

AI fraction · all on HN
ycombinator.com
21%
openai.com
20%
arstechnica.com YOU
9%
electrek.co
8%
Hacker News average
8%
arxiv.org
7%