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scientificamerican.com
Science press First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #498 most-AI domain
— What we found
Articles from scientificamerican.com are almost always human-written.
scientificamerican.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
0%
Reliably human
Lower than most domains we track.
Human 100% Mixed 0% AI 0%
Articles analyzed
7
all-time on HN
Median AI score
5%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
0%
0 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
100%
7 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 1%
Trend ↓ falling
— Sample articles
At three score levels
Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI
Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem
How a Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory
Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test
Mixed 30–70% AI
No articles in this range.
— Peer comparison
scientificamerican.com vs. similar sources
Hacker News average 8%
notes.andymatuschak.org 0%
shkspr.mobi 0%
scientificamerican.com YOU 0%
piccalil.li 0%
nyc.streetsblog.org 0%