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How much of the Linux kernel is written by AI?

Details

External ID
47934926
Source
HN
Company
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Product
How much of the Linux kernel is written by AI?
Website domain
assisted-by.dev
Launched
April 28, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
8
Upvotes percentile
0.4813624678663239
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
gpu compute and acceleration tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Analytics & BI
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
analysis of ai contribution to linux kernel
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes This is an exploratory static data visualization / dashboard showing analytics on the Linux kernel codebase, which can easily be generated via git log scripts and front-end charts.

Discussion

5 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Clanker fuzzers

Concerns raised: Generated summary lacks mailing list context, AI-assisted commits represent small proportion of kernel development

Feature requests: Include mailing list context in summaries

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 324 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #169 of 325 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 178 days after the earliest competitor.

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