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news.ycombinator.com
Community First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #166 most-AI domain
— What we found
Articles from news.ycombinator.com are almost always human-written.
news.ycombinator.com has had 42 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 5% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 8%.
AI verdict · all time
5%
Reliably human
Lower than most domains we track.
Human 93% Mixed 2% AI 5%
Articles analyzed
42
all-time on HN
Median AI score
5%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
5%
2 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
83%
35 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 10% Min 0% Max 99%
Trend ↓ falling
— Sample articles
At three score levels
Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI
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— Peer comparison
news.ycombinator.com vs. similar sources
electrek.co 8%
Hacker News average 8%
arxiv.org 7%
news.ycombinator.com YOU 5%
bbc.com 2%
aphyr.com 0%