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Personal blog First seen on HN · Jun 2026 · #3289 most-AI domain

— What we found

Articles from mcsweeneys.net are almost always human-written.

mcsweeneys.net has had 2 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 0% Mixed 100% AI 0%
WEEK ON WEEK flat
MONTH ON MONTH flat
Articles analyzed
2
all-time on HN
Median AI score
35%
half of articles score higher
“Almost certainly AI”
0%
0 articles > 90%
“Likely human”
0%
0 articles < 10%

— Distribution

How AI scores spread

2 articles · 10% buckets
1
1
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 44% Min 40% Max 48% Trend ↓ falling

— Sample articles

At three score levels

A snapshot of what mcsweeneys.net puts on the front page.

— Peer comparison

mcsweeneys.net vs. similar sources

AI fraction · all on HN
Hacker News average
14%
rednafi.com
0%
kiesow.net
0%
mcsweeneys.net YOU
0%
xodium.net
0%
hello-fri-end.github.io
0%