How much of Hacker News is about AI?
Details
- External ID
- 49449648
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- How much of Hacker News is about AI?
- Website domain
- hnstats.com
- Launched
- Aug. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 74
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9018817204301075
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
This website counts titles containing the standalone word "AI", case-sensitive and word-bounded. "OpenAI" doesn't count. "AI-powered" does. There's a toggle for a wider vocabulary: artificial intelligence spelled out, LLM, GPT, and model and vendor names.Some quick stats:- 14.4% of new HN titles this year, against 10.9% in 2025. On the wider vocabulary, 21.9% and 16.1%. - First month above 1% was Oct 2016. Above 5%, Feb 2023. Above 10%, May 2025. - Over the last five years the quietest month was Jan 2022 at 0.8%. The peak was Feb 2026 at 15.9%. - 13.6% on weekdays against 12.4% at weekends. - Show HN runs highest of any category at 19.8% this year, which makes this post part of the number.As of this post, today is at 15% for the standard filter and 19% for the extended.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- ai content analysis for hacker news
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight dashboard that reads public Hacker News Algolia and Firebase APIs directly from client-side JavaScript or a simple backend script.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: AI detection tools have high false positive rates and unreliability, People making accusations based on AI detection hunches without accepting responsibility, Difficulty determining AI usage reliably without context, Overuse of AI detection leading to misclassifications of human-written content
Feature requests: Better title clarification: 'How much of Hacker News is about AI?' instead of current phrasing
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 294 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Hacker News with AI stories filtered out · hn · 2026-08-03 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Hacker-News Buddies · hn · 2026-07-04 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Most Penalized HN Stories · hn · 2026-09-13 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Viral Potential Predictor · hn · 2025-12-28 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- ReadHn · hn · 2025-12-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters · hn · 2026-05-02 · 168 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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