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medium.com

Publishing platform First seen on HN · May 2026 · #972 most-AI domain

— What we found

Articles from medium.com are a mix of human and AI writing.

medium.com has had 26 articles reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 38% of them as AI-generated, close to the Hacker News average of 14%.

AI verdict · all time

38%

Mixed signals

Around the HN-wide average.

Human 27% Mixed 35% AI 38%

WEEK ON WEEK flat

MONTH ON MONTH ↑ + 80pp

Articles analyzed

all-time on HN

Median AI score

45%

half of articles score higher

“Almost certainly AI”

23%

6 articles > 90%

“Likely human”

27%

7 articles < 10%

— Distribution

How AI scores spread

26 articles · 10% buckets

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 48% Min 0% Max 99% Trend ↑ rising

— Sample articles

At three score levels

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

Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI

Anatomy of a Browser

100% AI · 5,072 words · Sep 3

I Am Behind on C# 14 Features, and I Can’t Prove It But Does It Matter?

99% AI · 184 words · Jun 29

Building an AWS Lambda-like Runtime with Firecracker MicroVMs

99% AI · 1,120 words · May 25

Mixed 30–70% AI

What Big Food Did to Ice Cream

58% AI · 3,008 words · Jul 10

Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later

42% AI · 743 words · Jun 14

Most-human ≤ 10% AI

Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks

0% AI · 3,034 words · Aug 3

Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals from an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert

0% AI · 4,463 words · May 19

I Type Holes in Keyboard Covers

0% AI · 167 words · Jul 3

— Peer comparison

medium.com vs. similar sources

AI fraction · all on HN

kimi.com

40%

manticoresearch.com

40%

medium.com YOU

38%

huggingface.co

36%

foxnews.com

33%

Hacker News average

14%