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Tech press First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #525 most-AI domain

— What we found

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

lwn.net has had 12 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 0% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 11%.

AI verdict · all time
0%
Reliably human
Lower than most domains we track.
Human 100% Mixed 0% AI 0%
WEEK ON WEEK flat
MONTH ON MONTH flat
Articles analyzed
12
all-time on HN
Median AI score
5%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
0%
0 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
67%
8 articles < 10%

— Distribution

How AI scores spread

12 articles · 10% buckets
8
1
2
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 7% Min 0% Max 27% Trend ↓ falling

— Sample articles

At three score levels

A snapshot of what lwn.net puts on the front page.

— Peer comparison

lwn.net vs. similar sources

AI fraction · all on HN
Hacker News average
11%
strangeloopcanon.com
0%
tryterra.co
0%
lwn.net YOU
0%
cnbc.com
0%
blog.alexbeals.com
0%