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newyorker.com

Mainstream press First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #632 most-AI domain

— What we found

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

newyorker.com has had 7 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 0% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 8%.

AI verdict · all time

Reliably human

Lower than most domains we track.

Human 100% Mixed 0% AI 0%

WEEK ON WEEK flat

MONTH ON MONTH flat

Articles analyzed

all-time on HN

Median AI score

half of articles score higher

“Almost certainly AI”

0 articles > 90%

“Likely human”

100%

7 articles < 10%

— Distribution

How AI scores spread

7 articles · 10% buckets

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 1% Min 0% Max 2% Trend ↓ falling

— Sample articles

At three score levels

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

Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI

Jonathan Swift’s Last Joke

2% AI · article · May 4

When Your Digital Life Vanishes

2% AI · article · Apr 27

It’s Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We?

1% AI · 2,048 words · May 1

Mixed 30–70% AI

No articles in this range.

Most-human ≤ 10% AI

Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, Really, We All Lost

0% AI · 3,690 words · May 22

The End of Refugee Resettlement

1% AI · article · May 16

How a New Israeli Policy Cuts Off Humanitarian Aid in Gaza

1% AI · article · May 17

— Peer comparison

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