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. Running a Minecraft Server and More on a 1960s Univac Computer 159 upvotes, 26 comments
  2. Theseus, a Static Windows Emulator 36 upvotes, 3 comments
  3. In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition 14 upvotes, 0 comments
  4. Colorado River disappeared record for 5M years: now we know where it was 34 upvotes, 4 comments
  5. My practitioner view of program analysis 11 upvotes, 0 comments
  6. Kasane: New drop-in Kakoune front end with GPU rendering and WASM Plugins 35 upvotes, 5 comments
  7. Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com 87 upvotes, 20 comments
  8. Ibuilt a tiny Unix‑like 'OS' with shell and filesystem for Arduino UNO (2KB RAM) 44 upvotes, 9 comments
  9. A type-safe, realtime collaborative Graph Database in a CRDT 131 upvotes, 38 comments
  10. 10 years: Stephen's Sausage Roll still one of the most influential puzzle games 41 upvotes, 9 comments
  11. Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files 214 upvotes, 75 comments
  12. MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany 251 upvotes, 92 comments
  13. Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go 138 upvotes, 52 comments
  14. Clojure: Transducers 124 upvotes, 50 comments
  15. The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables 180 upvotes, 78 comments
  16. Laws of Software Engineering 728 upvotes, 367 comments
  17. Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again 462 upvotes, 259 comments
  18. A Periodic Map of Cheese 121 upvotes, 58 comments
  19. Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness 140 upvotes, 70 comments
  20. Fusion Power Plant Simulator 122 upvotes, 61 comments
  21. Framework Laptop 13 Pro 543 upvotes, 324 comments
  22. Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 134 upvotes, 70 comments
  23. Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex 42 upvotes, 17 comments
  24. Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data 120 upvotes, 72 comments
  25. Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them 43 upvotes, 24 comments
  26. Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental? 45 upvotes, 31 comments
  27. Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return 242 upvotes, 248 comments
  28. Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero 218 upvotes, 223 comments
  29. Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing 270 upvotes, 361 comments
  30. Trellis AI (YC W24) Is hiring engineers to build self-improving agents 0 upvotes, 0 comments