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simonwillison.net
Personal blog First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #1056 most-AI domain
— What we found
Articles from simonwillison.net are almost always human-written.
simonwillison.net has had 30 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 0% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 14%.
AI verdict · all time
0%
Reliably human
Lower than most domains we track.
Human 97% Mixed 3% AI 0%
Articles analyzed
30
all-time on HN
Median AI score
5%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
0%
0 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
93%
28 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 2% Min 0% Max 18%
Trend ↑ rising
— Sample articles
At three score levels
Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI
Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican
Claude’s new system prompt really doesn’t want to reproduce song lyrics
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Mixed 30–70% AI
No articles in this range.
— Peer comparison
simonwillison.net vs. similar sources
Hacker News average 14%
raymii.org 0%
wired.com 0%
simonwillison.net YOU 0%
apnews.com 0%
fluentu.com 0%