A few things I'd flag upfront before anyone digs in: The corpus is HN front-page stories only — self-selected, tech-heavy, English-language. The aggregate patt

A few things I'd flag upfront before anyone digs in: The corpus is HN front-page stories only — self-selected, tech-heavy, English-language. The aggregate patterns (authorship rates, expert-knowledge assumptions, retrospective framing) describe this specific feed, not journalism or the web broadly. HN skews in ways that make some results unsurprising (high jargon density) and others more interesting (still only 18% conflict-of-interest disclosure in a technically sophisticated audience). The structural channel for the free Llama models (Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.3 70B on Workers AI) is genuinely noisy — 86% of their structural scores land on two integers. I say so in the post, but it's worth repeating: those model scores should be weighted accordingly. Claude Haiku 4.5 full evaluations are more reliable; the calibration set and baselines are on the About page. The methodology itself is preliminary. I haven't done external validation — no convergent validity test against an independent rights-focused coding scheme, no discriminant validity test against plain sentiment. Phase 0 of the roadmap is construct validity work. If anyone has experience in psychometrics or NLP evaluation and wants to poke at this, I'd genuinely welcome it.