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. Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma 76 upvotes, 2 comments
  2. Prefill-as-a-Service:KVCache of Next-Generation Models Could Go Cross-Datacenter 26 upvotes, 1 comments
  3. Treetops glowing during storms captured on film for first time 42 upvotes, 4 comments
  4. Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux 449 upvotes, 115 comments
  5. How does GPS work? 122 upvotes, 26 comments
  6. MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation 70 upvotes, 13 comments
  7. Making RAM at Home [video] 484 upvotes, 134 comments
  8. The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables 345 upvotes, 112 comments
  9. Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 325 upvotes, 107 comments
  10. Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code 84 upvotes, 28 comments
  11. Monitor your Pi / OMP sessions 10 upvotes, 1 comments
  12. DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser 6 upvotes, 0 comments
  13. CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes 78 upvotes, 37 comments
  14. Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen 555 upvotes, 351 comments
  15. 3.4M Solar Panels 136 upvotes, 75 comments
  16. Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training 697 upvotes, 461 comments
  17. Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era 141 upvotes, 85 comments
  18. All your agents are going async 92 upvotes, 56 comments
  19. GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry 190 upvotes, 133 comments
  20. Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports 61 upvotes, 37 comments
  21. Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021) 216 upvotes, 164 comments
  22. Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM 162 upvotes, 121 comments
  23. Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8M Ledger Mistake? 80 upvotes, 54 comments
  24. ChatGPT Images 2.0 935 upvotes, 821 comments
  25. Columnar Storage Is Normalization 31 upvotes, 17 comments
  26. Another Day Has Come 67 upvotes, 57 comments
  27. SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B 714 upvotes, 884 comments
  28. Why Musicians Are Manufacturing Sold-Out Shows 43 upvotes, 40 comments
  29. XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? 109 upvotes, 124 comments
  30. Show HN submissions tripled and are now mostly vibe-coded 5 upvotes, 2 comments