How much of Hacker News is AI-generated?
of sampled content classified AI-generated · 30-day average
As of 2026-08-13, 11.5% of content sampled from Hacker News was classified AI-generated by Dead Internet Monitor (30-day volume-weighted average, across 121,743 classified items).
- Sample: 121,743 classified items (cumulative, whole platform). The rate is the 30-day, volume-weighted average — the same figure shown on the dashboard and the per-platform badge.
- Versus the internet-wide rate: Dead Internet Monitor's all-source 30-day AI rate is 14.0%. Hacker News runs 0.8× that rate — at or below the internet-wide baseline.
- Excluding automated moderation: 11.5% (removes AutoModerator-type posts).
- Excluding org-handle syndication: 11.5% (removes verified-org auto-posts).
- Dead Internet Index: 6.5.
Communities within Hacker News
The 5 communities tracked on this platform, ranked by 30-day AI rate. Each links to its full evidence record — trend, sample size, and methodology.
- hn/tell — 100.0% (7.1× the internet-wide rate)
- hn/front_page — 11.8%
- hn/launch — 11.8%
- hn/ask — 11.3%
- hn/show — 7.1%
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How this is measured
Each item collected from Hacker News is classified by an LLM as AI-generated, human, or uncertain. The headline figure is the 30-day, volume-weighted share classified AI-generated — high-volume days count proportionally more. Read the full methodology, explore every community on the dashboard, or pull the underlying data from the open data API (CC BY 4.0).