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. Leonardo, Borgia, and Machiavelli: A Fateful Collusion 41 upvotes, 0 comments
  2. Running a Minecraft Server and More on a 1960s Univac Computer 140 upvotes, 24 comments
  3. Theseus, a Static Windows Emulator 19 upvotes, 1 comments
  4. Kasane: New drop-in Kakoune front end with GPU rendering and WASM Plugins 28 upvotes, 3 comments
  5. A type-safe, realtime collaborative Graph Database in a CRDT 123 upvotes, 32 comments
  6. Ibuilt a tiny Unix‑like 'OS' with shell and filesystem for Arduino UNO (2KB RAM) 19 upvotes, 2 comments
  7. Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com 37 upvotes, 7 comments
  8. Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files 202 upvotes, 72 comments
  9. Colorado River disappeared record for 5M years: now we know where it was 23 upvotes, 4 comments
  10. The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables 118 upvotes, 40 comments
  11. MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany 231 upvotes, 88 comments
  12. Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go 118 upvotes, 43 comments
  13. Clojure: Transducers 108 upvotes, 45 comments
  14. Laws of Software Engineering 677 upvotes, 352 comments
  15. Framework Laptop 13 Pro 293 upvotes, 147 comments
  16. Fusion Power Plant Simulator 104 upvotes, 46 comments
  17. Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again 428 upvotes, 243 comments
  18. Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness 130 upvotes, 65 comments
  19. A Periodic Map of Cheese 80 upvotes, 39 comments
  20. Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days 96 upvotes, 52 comments
  21. Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 84 upvotes, 45 comments
  22. OpenAI Livestream 24 upvotes, 9 comments
  23. Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data 65 upvotes, 36 comments
  24. Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental? 32 upvotes, 16 comments
  25. Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex 27 upvotes, 13 comments
  26. Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them 38 upvotes, 24 comments
  27. Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero 175 upvotes, 180 comments
  28. Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return 210 upvotes, 226 comments
  29. Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing 245 upvotes, 337 comments
  30. Trellis AI (YC W24) Is hiring engineers to build self-improving agents 0 upvotes, 0 comments