Hacker News Confidence

Less annoying hacker news. (What is this?)

This site scrapes Hacker News once every 30 minutes, then sorts according to this formula, with upvotes as positive signals and comments as negative ones. In my experience, the best articles to read on HN are the ones with a high upvote-to-discussion ratio. Mostly because controversial pieces tend to produce a disproportionate number of comments compared to upvotes.


  1. Hacking cars in JavaScript (Replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF) 65 upvotes, 1 comments
  2. Physicists spot quantum tornadoes twirling in a 'supersolid' 71 upvotes, 2 comments
  3. Passport Photos 715 upvotes, 93 comments
  4. Visualizing binary files with ImHex's DSL, the "pattern language" 86 upvotes, 7 comments
  5. Kernel optimization with BOLT (binary optimization and layout tool) 160 upvotes, 19 comments
  6. The Secret System Behind Every Call You Make Is About to Change Hands 19 upvotes, 0 comments
  7. Model Predictive Control in the Browser with WebAssembly 107 upvotes, 13 comments
  8. Evaluating the World Model Implicit in a Generative Model 15 upvotes, 0 comments
  9. The evolutionary mystery of the German cockroach 40 upvotes, 4 comments
  10. Show HN: SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor 218 upvotes, 44 comments
  11. 131M American Buildings 140 upvotes, 28 comments
  12. A rudimentary quantum network link between Dutch cities 29 upvotes, 3 comments
  13. Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize 315 upvotes, 85 comments
  14. Ping Rate Clock 21 upvotes, 2 comments
  15. Steam releases new built-in recording feature 23 upvotes, 3 comments
  16. The guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing 8k hours 182 upvotes, 60 comments
  17. Private Cloud Compute Security Guide 326 upvotes, 153 comments
  18. Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada 556 upvotes, 316 comments
  19. The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise 267 upvotes, 157 comments
  20. One year, 41M digits: How Luke Durant found the largest known prime number 45 upvotes, 20 comments
  21. Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue 118 upvotes, 71 comments
  22. Creating Runtime and Application Images with JLink 12 upvotes, 3 comments
  23. Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data 71 upvotes, 42 comments
  24. Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16 145 upvotes, 99 comments
  25. Nvidia Rides AI Wave to Pass Apple as Largest Company 50 upvotes, 28 comments
  26. Show HN: TutoriaLLM – AI Integrated programming tutorials 9 upvotes, 2 comments
  27. Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE 173 upvotes, 128 comments
  28. The English Paradox: Four Decades of Life and Language in Japan 59 upvotes, 38 comments
  29. Jeopardy Game Using LLM and Python 3 upvotes, 0 comments
  30. Monorepo – Our Experience 156 upvotes, 169 comments