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Tech press First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #1301 most-AI domain

— What we found

Articles from lwn.net are almost always human-written.

lwn.net has had 35 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 3% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 15%.

AI verdict · all time
3%
Reliably human
Lower than most domains we track.
Human 97% Mixed 0% AI 3%
WEEK ON WEEK flat
MONTH ON MONTH ↓ 13pp
Articles analyzed
35
all-time on HN
Median AI score
5%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
3%
1 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
83%
29 articles < 10%

— Distribution

How AI scores spread

35 articles · 10% buckets
29
2
2
1
1
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 6% Min 0% Max 96% Trend ↑ rising

— Peer comparison

lwn.net vs. similar sources

AI fraction · all on HN
Hacker News average
15%
lwn.net YOU
3%
bbc.com
1%