Days Since AI: live AI headline counter for Hacker News
Days Since AI
How much of today’s Hacker News is AI?
Every new story submitted since midnight UTC. The clock resets each time one mentions AI.
13%
of today’s **new story submissions** have “AI” in the headline strict
13 percent of today's new Hacker News story submissions mention AI, in strict mode.
99 AI headlines today
787 Total headlines today
11 Avg min between AI posts
Time since last AI headline
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Resets when the next AI headline lands.
Latest AI headline
Spotify Backstage Meet LiteLLM for Corporate AI Governance 10 min ago
AI share of new headlines
12.6%28 Aug 2026 today, still counting 99 of 787
7D 13.0%of 6,191 headlines
Records·6 complete days
15.2%Peak day 26 Aug 2026
10.6%Quietest day 22 Aug 2026
181 Most in a day 26 Aug 2026
**13.6%** on weekdays against **12.4%** at weekends. People post about AI from work.
These follow the range above. Daily data goes back 400 days, so the longer ranges are measured in months instead.
Algolia title match with prefix matching off, counted the same way for every point except today, which is counted from the titles themselves. Algolia matches tokens case-insensitively, so it tracks strict closely rather than exactly.
Counts the standalone word “AI”. “OpenAI” does not count. “AI-powered” does.