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

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caminanteblanco wrote: post #9

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!

Yeah, that's probably the main limitation right now. This is measuring /new, so it's every submission rather than just the stuff that makes the front page.

lcamtuf's survey (linked in the footer) was looking at the front page, and the number there was quite a bit higher. So there's likely some effect from voting, although I haven't dug into that yet.

I think Algolia has a way to filter for front-page stories, which should make it pretty easy to add. I haven't tested that yet though but will certainly look into it!

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

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noobplus wrote: post #7

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

Something to maybe track later would be /newcomments, but that would only grab the most obvious comments. People can certainly direct an AI to write in a style that sounds human, but I'm sure it'll still catch a fair amount.

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

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rzmmm wrote: post #12

It's remarkable how stable 20-30% show HN concentration is after late 2022, for the extended stats.

The Show HN volume went 805/month to 4,199/month over that same time period, so from 3.2% of all submissions to 13.4%, while HN overall only grew 1.3x. So the flat ~24% held through a 5x expansion in the denominator, which makes it a lot more interesting honestly.

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

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Post by beekthos »

bklosky wrote: post #6

you could fetch the text from linked blog posts over time and run 'em through pangram, I bet >20% of blogs linked on HN today are totally LLM written

Several people have asked for this already, so I'll add it to my to-do list. I just want to be careful about flagging posts that appear to be written by AI. Perhaps I set certain thresholds of certainty to filter by. What I have currently is easily verified and matched by the words we are filtering for.

It is also interesting to note that I have already received 5 AI written emails to the email I linked in the footer.

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