№ 5 The State of AI Writing on Hacker News · August 2026
August's front page averaged 19% AI-generated.
Pangram flagged 19% of the month's 2,521 analyzed stories as AI-generated. That's 2pp higher than the month before.
1 in 5
front-page stories was AI-generated
Pangram flagged 482 of 2521 analyzed stories as AI this month.
+2pp
change versus the previous month
The front page ran more AI than July 2026.
100%
of writemd.app was AI-generated
Of domains with at least three stories this month, writemd.app had the highest AI share.
— The trend
AI % on the HN front page, every day of Aug
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prev avg · 17%
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Below 17% 17–20% 20% and above Highest day: 30% on Aug 27
— Trending up
Domains writing more AI
— Steady
Domains holding the line
AI of the month
Native Bedrock Codex GPT-5.6 Sol lacks explicit cache controls, producing high cache-write spend
100% AI likelihood
Most-human longread
What's New in Emacs 31.1?
2% AI likelihood
Mixed signal
Λ ≤ 0.1787854 — a new bound for the de Bruijn–Newman constant
60% AI likelihood