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1 in 5 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 79 analyzed today 4,378 all-time

AI-generated · Last 24 hours

14%
11 of 79 stories
14-DAY TREND ↓ 1pp WoW
Today
14%
↑ +4pp vs yesterday
7-day average
13%
↓ 1pp WoW
30-day average
13%
↑ +7pp MoM
Detector accuracy
99.98%
Pangram v3.3 · published
1

Claude Fable 5 (anthropic.com)

▲ 938 774 comments by Philpax 2h ago
Human
1% AI
2

Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy (ukandeu.ac.uk)

▲ 25 15 comments by mooreds 24m ago
AI
79% AI
3

Making Graphics Like it's 1993 (staniks.github.io)

▲ 583 98 comments by sklopec 9h ago
Human
1% AI
4

What it feels like to work with Mythos (oneusefulthing.org)

▲ 36 25 comments by swolpers 2h ago
Mixed
5% AI
5

A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions (phys.org)

▲ 84 14 comments by wglb 22h ago
Human
7% AI
6

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers (techcrunch.com)

▲ 473 166 comments by raffael_de 12h ago
Human
0% AI
7

Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption (reuters.com)

▲ 240 386 comments by flanged 3h ago
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8

Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro? (news.ycombinator.com)

▲ 36 28 comments by y1n0 35m ago
Human
0% AI
9

The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012) (bnikolic.co.uk)

▲ 18 0 comments by tanelpoder 2h ago
Human
0% AI
10

Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV (news.ycombinator.com)

▲ 21 5 comments by nils_spatial 3h ago
AI
98% AI
11

Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps (biffweb.com)

▲ 44 14 comments by jacobobryant 3h ago
Human
0% AI
12

FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs (404media.co)

▲ 253 166 comments by berlianta 4h ago
Human
0% AI
13

Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search (arxiv.org)

▲ 79 39 comments by Anon84 6h ago
Human
5% AI
14

OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision (opencv.org)

▲ 581 106 comments by ternaus 4d ago
AI
99% AI
15

Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms? (arxiv.org)

▲ 71 12 comments by galsapir 4h ago
Human
4% AI
16

Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf] (letsencrypt.org)

▲ 169 125 comments by piskov 21h ago
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17

Show HN: Cost.dev (YC W21) – making agents cost-aware and cheaper to call (cost.dev)

▲ 36 22 comments by akh 5d ago
AI
99% AI
18

The iPhone's Last Stand? (stratechery.com)

▲ 133 169 comments by swolpers 9h ago
Human
0% AI
19

Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs (github.com)

▲ 57 80 comments by luke8086 2d ago
Human
1% AI
20

Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein (qunabu.github.io)

▲ 102 23 comments by qunabu 8h ago
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21

Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer (ycombinator.com)

▲ 1 by gabesaruhashi 7h ago
Mixed
79% AI
22

Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs (arxiv.org)

▲ 45 12 comments by PaulHoule 5h ago
Human
8% AI
23

Rayforce (github.com)

▲ 14 2 comments by tosh 3d ago
AI
87% AI
24

I Think Rutger Bregman and the School for Moral Ambition Are Full of Shit (louwrentius.com)

▲ 21 8 comments by louwrentius 3h ago
Human
1% AI
25

Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025) (omnia.sas.upenn.edu)

▲ 109 64 comments by bryanrasmussen 11h ago
Human
3% AI
26

Using Optical Aberrations to Distinguish Real Astronomical Transients (arxiv.org)

▲ 25 2 comments by solarist 4h ago
Human
0% AI
27

Show HN: Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted (github.com)

▲ 19 9 comments by micstradev 7h ago
AI
98% AI
28

Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art (thi.ng)

▲ 167 25 comments by nmstoker 2d ago
Human
1% AI
29

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers (codingwithjesse.com)

▲ 398 297 comments by BrunoBernardino 10h ago
Human
0% AI
30

The Effective Sample Size (alex.smola.org)

▲ 19 1 comments by jxmorris12 5d ago
Mixed
77% AI

Comparison view

Hacker News’ ranking vs. AI probability

Top 12 · curves connect the same article
Ranked by HN upvotes
1 Claude Fable 5
2 Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy
3 Making Graphics Like it's 1993
4 What it feels like to work with Mythos
5 A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions
6 Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
7 Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
8 Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
9 The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)
10 Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV
11 Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps
12 FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
Ranked by AI probability
OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision 99%
Show HN: Cost.dev (YC W21) – making agents cost-aware and cheaper to call 99%
Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV 98%
Show HN: Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted 98%
Rayforce 87%
Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy 79%
Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer 79%
The Effective Sample Size 77%
Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs 8%
A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions 7%
What it feels like to work with Mythos 5%
Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search 5%