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popularmechanics.com
Personal blog First seen on HN · Jul 2026 · #4457 most-AI domain
— What we found
Articles from popularmechanics.com are almost always human-written.
popularmechanics.com has had 2 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 0% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 14%.
AI verdict · all time
0%
Reliably human
Lower than most domains we track.
Human 100% Mixed 0% AI 0%
Articles analyzed
2
all-time on HN
Median AI score
5%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
0%
0 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
100%
2 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 0% Min 0% Max 0%
Trend ↑ rising
— Sample articles
At three score levels
Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI
He Was the Key to a Top-Secret Missile Program. Then He Walked Out of His Office—and Was Never Seen Again.
60 Years Ago, a Submerged Submarine Circled the Globe for the First Time
Mixed 30–70% AI
No articles in this range.
— Peer comparison
popularmechanics.com vs. similar sources
Hacker News average 14%
slow-journalism.com 0%
transformer-transformer.github.io 0%
popularmechanics.com YOU 0%
mlugg.co.uk 0%
potsandpansbyccg.com 0%