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Community First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #1000 most-AI domain

— What we found

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

ycombinator.com has had 79 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 27% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 14%.

AI verdict · all time
27%
Reliably human
Lower than most domains we track.
Human 48% Mixed 25% AI 27%
WEEK ON WEEK ↓ 50pp
MONTH ON MONTH ↓ 6pp
Articles analyzed
79
all-time on HN
Median AI score
25%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
18%
14 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
38%
30 articles < 10%

— Distribution

How AI scores spread

79 articles · 10% buckets
30
7
5
4
3
3
3
6
4
14
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 33% Min 0% Max 99% Trend ↓ falling

— Sample articles

At three score levels

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

— Peer comparison

ycombinator.com vs. similar sources

AI fraction · all on HN
euronews.com
30%
cursor.com
29%
ycombinator.com YOU
27%
eetimes.com
25%
storica.club
25%
Hacker News average
14%