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news.mit.edu
Academic preprints First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #1203 most-AI domain
— What we found
Articles from news.mit.edu are almost always human-written.
news.mit.edu has had 6 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 0% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 13%.
AI verdict · all time
0%
Reliably human
Lower than most domains we track.
Human 83% Mixed 17% AI 0%
Articles analyzed
6
all-time on HN
Median AI score
5%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
0%
0 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
83%
5 articles < 10%
— Distribution
How AI scores spread
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
70 · AI → 30 · mixed →
earlierlatest
30d avg 3% Min 0% Max 10%
Trend ↑ rising
— Sample articles
At three score levels
Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI
To study how chips really work, MIT researchers built their own operating system
Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds
MIT engineers’ virtual violin produces realistic sounds
Mixed 30–70% AI
No articles in this range.
— Peer comparison
news.mit.edu vs. similar sources
Hacker News average 13%
dillo-browser.org 0%
road.cc 0%
news.mit.edu YOU 0%
shankwiler.com 0%
v8.dev 0%