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1 in 15 stories on the front page today is AI-generated.

Every story in the HN top 30, scored by Pangram for AI-written content. Sort and filter the list below, or see how the AI ranking lines up against Hacker News’ own.

Scored with Pangram 85 analyzed today 10,095 all-time

AI-generated · Last 24 hours

14%
12 of 85 stories
14-DAY TREND ↓ 1pp WoW
Today
14%
↓ 17pp vs yesterday
7-day average
20%
↓ 1pp WoW
30-day average
18%
↑ +3pp MoM
Detector accuracy
99.98%
Pangram v3.3 · published
1

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)

▲ 528 252 comments by bilsbie 11h ago
Human
10% AI
2

On A.I. regulation and messaging (twitter.com)

▲ 80 145 comments by jacquesm 9h ago
Human
0% AI
3

The continuing "Q collar" scandal (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

▲ 24 6 comments by luu 3d ago
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4

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (rvembedded.com)

▲ 528 272 comments by Narishma 18h ago
Mixed
55% AI
5

Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing (daringfireball.net)

▲ 317 318 comments by ropbear 13h ago
Human
3% AI
6

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)

▲ 138 42 comments by sudo_cowsay 11h ago
Human
0% AI
7

Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)

▲ 673 259 comments by tosh 22h ago
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8

Gakutensoku (en.wikipedia.org)

▲ 35 3 comments by benbreen 4d ago
Human
0% AI
9

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)

▲ 90 10 comments by erickhill 9h ago
Human
13% AI
10

Linear algebra done right (linear.axler.net)

▲ 96 40 comments by the-mitr 6h ago
Human
0% AI
11

Rhombus 1.1 is now available (blog.racket-lang.org)

▲ 91 28 comments by spdegabrielle 10h ago
Human
0% AI
12

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024) (support.google.com)

▲ 135 85 comments by dt3ft 4d ago
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13

The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes (outsideonline.com)

▲ 12 4 comments by cwwc 3d ago
Human
0% AI
14

SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)

▲ 124 52 comments by ibobev 4d ago
Mixed
60% AI
15

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye” (science.org)

▲ 49 16 comments by gumby 11h ago
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16

Design 3D-printable parts by talking (nurb.dev)

▲ 25 12 comments by mkmk 3d ago
AI
100% AI
17

GIMP Development Update (gimp.org)

▲ 192 141 comments by lumpa 8h ago
Human
0% AI
18

Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)

▲ 8 0 comments by vlowrian 3h ago
Human
42% AI
19

Production-ready detection and response queries for osquery (github.com)

▲ 5 0 comments by ankitg12 4d ago
Human
0% AI
20

The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)

▲ 297 120 comments by mlenhard 20h ago
Human
5% AI
21

Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI (cst.cam.ac.uk)

▲ 71 19 comments by hardlianotion 15h ago
Human
7% AI
22

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees (github.com)

▲ 47 4 comments by forhappy 10h ago
AI
95% AI
23

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers (news.ycombinator.com)

▲ 526 148 comments by stagas 17h ago
Human
0% AI
24

Protobuf has LSP support (buf.build)

▲ 158 109 comments by theanonymousone 16h ago
Human
0% AI
25

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024) (infoscience.epfl.ch)

▲ 12 1 comments by andsoitis 8h ago
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26

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)

▲ 98 28 comments by homarp 17h ago
Mixed
67% AI
27

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (techcrunch.com)

▲ 371 230 comments by zacharyozer 15h ago
Human
0% AI
28

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)

▲ 116 19 comments by emptybits 4d ago
Mixed
38% AI
29

GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (newyorker.com)

▲ 82 73 comments by karakoram 20h ago
Human
0% AI
30

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (youtube.com)

▲ 69 18 comments by tobr 2d ago
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Comparison view

Hacker News’ ranking vs. AI probability

Top 12 · curves connect the same article
Ranked by HN upvotes
1 Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
2 On A.I. regulation and messaging
3 The continuing "Q collar" scandal
4 A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”
5 Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
6 Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
7 Claude: System Prompts
8 Gakutensoku
9 AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
10 Linear algebra done right
11 Rhombus 1.1 is now available
12 How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
Ranked by AI probability
Design 3D-printable parts by talking 100%
Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees 95%
MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent 67%
SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX 60%
A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” 55%
Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS 42%
Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga 38%
AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 13%
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things 10%
Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI 7%
The AI Credit Resale Economy 5%
Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing 3%