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Show HN: How much of Hacker News is about AI?

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Post by beekthos »

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.

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Post by beekthos »

sharemywin wrote: post #3

it would be cool to use embeddings to categorize into like 10-20 categories and get a giant pie chart

Not a bad idea. I'd look at creating a separate page for embeddings. Crypto and NFT's would be the next best candidates to add. Something for me to work on over time.

Re: Show HN: How much of Hacker News is about AI?

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Post by ForOldHack »

noobplus wrote: post #7

And so comes the AI comments as many as the AI posts just saying for fun

If you read a lot, you start to get a feel for phone typos vs AI hiccups. I can guarantee that is post was made by a brain designed to eat berries in a cave. Almost all the another posts look a bit scary.

I think I misunderstood - how many posts were about AI vs how many posts were written by AI.

I obviously am suffering from berry fog.

Re: Show HN: How much of Hacker News is about AI?

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Post by caminanteblanco »

Would there be some way to see what percentage of the front page meets those qualifications? I don't browse /new very often, so I have less of an idea of how representative that is. It would be interesting to see if they trend similarly.

Thanks for the cool project!

Re: Show HN: How much of Hacker News is about AI?

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Post by noobplus »

ForOldHack wrote: post #8
noobplus wrote: post #7

And so comes the AI comments as many as the AI posts just saying for fun

If you read a lot, you start to get a feel for phone typos vs AI hiccups. I can guarantee that is post was made by a brain designed to eat berries in a cave. Almost all the another posts look a bit scary. I think I misunderstood - how many posts were about AI vs how many posts were written by AI. I obviously am suffering from berry fog.

Exactly yep. Maybe even more when time machine has been invented by that AI bot in far future I meant the number of comments by AI(-bots)
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