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Tech press First seen on HN · Apr 2026 · #1032 most-AI domain

— What we found

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

arstechnica.com has had 85 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 2% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 14%.

AI verdict · all time
2%
Reliably human
Lower than most domains we track.
Human 98% Mixed 0% AI 2%
WEEK ON WEEK flat
MONTH ON MONTH flat
Articles analyzed
85
all-time on HN
Median AI score
5%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
0%
0 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
96%
82 articles < 10%

— Distribution

How AI scores spread

85 articles · 10% buckets
82
1
2
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 1% Min 0% Max 10% Trend ↑ rising

— Sample articles

At three score levels

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

— Peer comparison

arstechnica.com vs. similar sources

AI fraction · all on HN
Hacker News average
14%
news.ycombinator.com
4%
lwn.net
3%
arstechnica.com YOU
2%
bbc.com
1%
spectrum.ieee.org
1%