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1 in 6 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 69 analyzed today 11,789 all-time

AI-generated · Last 24 hours

12%
8 of 69 stories
14-DAY TREND ↓ 3pp WoW
Today
12%
↓ 6pp vs yesterday
7-day average
17%
↓ 3pp WoW
30-day average
19%
↑ +2pp MoM
Detector accuracy
99.98%
Pangram v3.3 · published
1

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) (devquasar.com)

▲ 62 21 comments by networked 1h ago
Mixed
43% AI
2

There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get (zachkehs.com)

▲ 32 14 comments by zkehs 53m ago
Human
0% AI
3

Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says (pbs.org)

▲ 107 63 comments by ijidak 2h ago
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unscored
4

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions (nvd.nist.gov)

▲ 628 350 comments by negura 17h ago
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unscored
5

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board (collusion.wiki)

▲ 1860 1421 comments by moultano 1d ago
Mixed
29% AI
6

.gitignore Everything by Default (packagemain.tech)

▲ 17 18 comments by der_gopher 2h ago
Human
27% AI
7

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns (codeberg.org)

▲ 397 158 comments by Cider9986 15h ago
Human
0% AI
8

Terpstra Keyboard (terpstrakeyboard.com)

▲ 39 13 comments by cl3misch 5h ago
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unscored
9

Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem (anthropic.com)

▲ 672 423 comments by jlebar 20h ago
Human
0% AI
10

Netherlands pulls gold out of the US for fears of 'geopolitical unrest' (abc.net.au)

▲ 194 120 comments by daniel_iversen 5h ago
Human
0% AI
11

Statichost.eu – European static site hosting (statichost.eu)

▲ 366 167 comments by p4bl0 19h ago
AI
60% AI
12

Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)

▲ 21 8 comments by Bluestein 5h ago
Human
13% AI
13

A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found (nationalgeographic.com)

▲ 11 1 comments by bryanrasmussen 3d ago
Human
0% AI
14

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems (sylvainkalache.com)

▲ 258 224 comments by sylvainkalache 7h ago
Mixed
26% AI
15

Git hosting that never leaves Europe (pushin.eu)

▲ 164 92 comments by sevenseacat 9h ago
Mixed
64% AI
16

Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System (arxiv.org)

▲ 41 13 comments by zdw 5d ago
Human
0% AI
17

Can AI design circuit boards yet? (eebench.org)

▲ 303 180 comments by iopapa 19h ago
AI
89% AI
18

Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners (arstechnica.com)

▲ 18 2 comments by mkl 1h ago
Human
0% AI
19

Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation (arstechnica.com)

▲ 85 79 comments by ndsipa_pomu 2h ago
Human
0% AI
20

A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads (buttondown.com)

▲ 9 2 comments by rfarley04 3h ago
Human
0% AI
21

GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)

▲ 264 178 comments by Topfi 17h ago
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unscored
22

Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% (engineering.atspotify.com)

▲ 187 98 comments by cebert 15h ago
AI
89% AI
23

Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering? (news.ycombinator.com)

▲ 173 103 comments by tosmatos 3d ago
Human
0% AI
24

Shutting down our public encrypted DNS (mullvad.net)

▲ 389 182 comments by mywacaday 20h ago
Human
4% AI
25

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer (opentrailpaper.com)

▲ 334 110 comments by stingrae 22h ago
AI
90% AI
26

Git Submodules as a Package Manager (nesbitt.io)

▲ 72 15 comments by ErenayDev 4d ago
AI
98% AI
27

Pointing at the error: compiler-style diagnostics in uutils coreutils (uutils.org)

▲ 37 4 comments by ingve 3d ago
Mixed
52% AI
28

IBM Bob (bob.ibm.com)

▲ 301 310 comments by artpar 1d ago
Human
4% AI
29

Can guitar frets perform multiplication? (charlespetzold.com)

▲ 105 29 comments by wibbily 16h ago
Human
0% AI
30

Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4 (github.com)

▲ 132 26 comments by aaraujo002 20h ago
Mixed
61% AI

Comparison view

Hacker News’ ranking vs. AI probability

Top 12 · curves connect the same article
Ranked by HN upvotes
1 The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
2 There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get
3 Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says
4 Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
5 Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
6 .gitignore Everything by Default
7 Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
8 Terpstra Keyboard
9 Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
10 Netherlands pulls gold out of the US for fears of 'geopolitical unrest'
11 Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
12 Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
Ranked by AI probability
Git Submodules as a Package Manager 98%
Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer 90%
Can AI design circuit boards yet? 89%
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% 89%
Git hosting that never leaves Europe 64%
Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4 61%
Statichost.eu – European static site hosting 60%
Pointing at the error: compiler-style diagnostics in uutils coreutils 52%
The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) 43%
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board 29%
.gitignore Everything by Default 27%
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems 26%