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Salah Adawi
Personal blog · salahadawi.com · on HN as salahadawiaiwritingprogramming
Salah Adawi's personal blog at salahadawi.com covers ai, writing and programming. Since 2026, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “A dashboard scoring HN frontpage stories with Pangram”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this site for its Hacker News AI-text detector, which posts per-story AI-likelihood reports using Pangram scores. The linked pages are these detection reports, not essays.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- A dashboard scoring HN frontpage stories with Pangram5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-07-04
What Hacker News says?
Pangram believes this text was authored with an LLM: https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector/49765348
Comment linking /hacker-news-ai-detector/49765348
on “I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago”Submitted A dashboard scoring HN frontpage stories with Pangram as a story · 1 points
HN discussionthere's a say-do gap in play - similar to makeup/no-makeup studies: people claim to prefer natural/no-makeup while behavioral research reveals a preference for subtle/light/professionally-applied makeup when it comes to ai people love to claim to hate it outright - this thread is full of descriptions of ai writing being impossible to read, totally incoherent, and superlatively bad/worse than average human writing. m…
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on “I don't want to read what you didn't write”I am skeptical that a transition from X to Wayland is actually merited. As for the post / the repo itself, this analysis: https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector/50103338 suggests it is LLM-generated. Not sure what to make of it.
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on “Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design”There's a website that does this: https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector Unfortunately, it's not a browser extension and doesn't seem to have an API. I'd make a browser extension for this myself if it didn't involve paying for expensive Pangram usage.
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on “The revolt of the reader”> I may be very much in the minority here you are not the minority, yours is the prevailing attitude on HN (and also the policy - AI-assisted writing is not welcome here) calling out AI isms and smells while ignoring the substance has become sport and an ugly look (IMO) especially with Pangram and sites like ( https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector ) automatically scanning everything that hits the frontp…
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on “I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband”hnslop (using salahadawi, using Pangram) puts this at 100% AI written, so that's probably why. Report: https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector/50314699 hnslop: https://hnslop.nilsherzig.com/
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on “Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts”So, another anecdotal website extolling LLMs, written - so it seems [1] by an LLM. Typical far for HN these days I suppose. [1] : https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector/49946567
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on “Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code”Over half, apparently. https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector/49947472
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on “Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?”yep, there's a massive say-do gap in play - very similar to the way people say they prefer no makeup but behavioral studies reveal a preference for light/tastefully-applied makeup people love to openly hate on ai/assisted writing meanwhile https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector reveals a lot of it is being voted up to the frontpage
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on “Has AI tells”> that this blog was so clearly written by LLM's is offputting for some reason It doesn't read at all AI-generated to me. What section do you think is? (Pangram is very good at distinguishing between AI-generated and human text, and assigns a very low score to the article: https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector/rewriting... ) > Contrary to the amount of times "But honestly" or "genuinely" is mentioned, n…
Comment linking /hacker-news-ai-detector/rewriting-bun-in-rust
on “Rewriting Bun in Rust”Hey, just FYI to everyone: Even though this article is conveying good (and useful) information, it seems to be completely AI-generated. Pangram clocks it as 100% AI: https://www.pangram.com/history/c410d4b4-abfd-4ca0-b52d-db0d... Someone else in the thread lists it as 99%: https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector Also, it sort of jumps out at you if you're used to reading AI writing. Claude loves to start…
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on “The bottleneck might be the air in the room”I've actually been tracking the front page of HN for AI posts for a while now: https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector This post evaluates to 99% AI generated.
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on “The bottleneck might be the air in the room”You should add hnslop to your browser. Adds the percent AI of a link before you open it. For example this one says 100% AI: https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector/49993820 https://hnslop.nilsherzig.com/
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on “We Built an Alternative to Vector RAG for AI Agent Memory”https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector/the-great... > We believe that this document is a mix of AI-generated, and human-written content: 78% AI likelihood
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on “The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs?”
