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simonwillison.net
Personal blog First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #178 most-AI domain
— What we found
Articles from simonwillison.net are almost always human-written.
simonwillison.net has had 8 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
8
all-time on HN
Median AI score
5%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
0%
0 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
100%
8 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 1% Min 0% Max 6%
Trend ↓ falling
— Sample articles
At three score levels
Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI
Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
Mixed 30–70% AI
No articles in this range.
— Peer comparison
simonwillison.net vs. similar sources
Hacker News average 8%
raymii.org 0%
wired.com 0%
simonwillison.net YOU 0%
apnews.com 0%
fluentu.com 0%