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. The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill 91 upvotes, 5 comments
  2. Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care? 23 upvotes, 1 comments
  3. Reverse Engineering SimTower 184 upvotes, 36 comments
  4. I built a Game Boy emulator in F# 266 upvotes, 59 comments
  5. New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome 41 upvotes, 6 comments
  6. Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file 211 upvotes, 53 comments
  7. Full-Text Search with DuckDB 125 upvotes, 30 comments
  8. I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search 274 upvotes, 77 comments
  9. How an oil refinery works 405 upvotes, 123 comments
  10. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] 568 upvotes, 187 comments
  11. Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library 387 upvotes, 132 comments
  12. Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected 76 upvotes, 21 comments
  13. Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? 609 upvotes, 246 comments
  14. Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100) 26 upvotes, 5 comments
  15. CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940 92 upvotes, 31 comments
  16. Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac 26 upvotes, 6 comments
  17. You can beat the binary search 306 upvotes, 139 comments
  18. Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" 1120 upvotes, 608 comments
  19. Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey 324 upvotes, 168 comments
  20. Does Postgres Scale? 123 upvotes, 57 comments
  21. New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges 129 upvotes, 63 comments
  22. Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows 72 upvotes, 37 comments
  23. For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions 469 upvotes, 357 comments
  24. 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home 193 upvotes, 136 comments
  25. Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months 57 upvotes, 34 comments
  26. Maladaptive Frugality 85 upvotes, 63 comments
  27. It’s Toasted 24 upvotes, 13 comments
  28. Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants 800 upvotes, 802 comments
  29. OpenWarp 80 upvotes, 69 comments
  30. I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers 77 upvotes, 70 comments