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ycombinator.com

Community First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #152 most-AI domain

— What we found

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

ycombinator.com has had 19 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 21% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 8%.

AI verdict · all time

21%

Reliably human

Lower than most domains we track.

Human 63% Mixed 16% AI 21%

WEEK ON WEEK ↑ + 33pp

MONTH ON MONTH ↑ + 1pp

Articles analyzed

all-time on HN

Median AI score

half of articles score higher

“Almost certainly AI”

0 articles > 90%

“Likely human”

53%

10 articles < 10%

— Distribution

How AI scores spread

19 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 22% Min 0% Max 88% Trend ↓ falling

— Sample articles

At three score levels

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

Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI

Applied AI Strategist - Market Intelligence (Health) at Terra API | Y Combinator

88% AI · 727 words · Apr 26

Applied AI Strategist - Market Intelligence (Health) at Terra API | Y Combinator

88% AI · 727 words · Apr 26

AI Growth Engineer at Typewise | Y Combinator

87% AI · 755 words · May 21

Mixed 30–70% AI

Forward Deployed Engineer (US) at Cekura | Y Combinator

41% AI · 608 words · May 21

Founding Marketer (Content & Community) at Kyber | Y Combinator

34% AI · article · May 16

Most-human ≤ 10% AI

Harness Engineer at Substrate | Y Combinator

0% AI · 657 words · Apr 17

Technical Success Manager at Substrate | Y Combinator

0% AI · 526 words · May 13

The Blaze "No AI Summer" Internship at Text Blaze | Y Combinator

0% AI · article · May 12

— Peer comparison

ycombinator.com vs. similar sources

AI fraction · all on HN

gardinerbryant.com

25%

github.com

21%

ycombinator.com YOU

21%

openai.com

20%

arstechnica.com

Hacker News average