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. After Spain's blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on 32 upvotes, 2 comments
  2. The predictable failure of the QDay Prize 44 upvotes, 4 comments
  3. Voice Modems 50 upvotes, 6 comments
  4. GitHub Actions is the weakest link 92 upvotes, 16 comments
  5. AI's Economics Don't Make Sense 55 upvotes, 10 comments
  6. Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage 92 upvotes, 21 comments
  7. Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop 501 upvotes, 172 comments
  8. WASM is not quite a stack machine 134 upvotes, 41 comments
  9. Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 561 upvotes, 231 comments
  10. FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger 73 upvotes, 26 comments
  11. Laguna XS.2 and M.1 30 upvotes, 8 comments
  12. UAE Leaves OPEC and OPEC+ 248 upvotes, 124 comments
  13. Your phone is about to stop being yours 297 upvotes, 155 comments
  14. I have officially retired from Emacs 46 upvotes, 17 comments
  15. ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips 240 upvotes, 137 comments
  16. Deep under Antarctic ice, a long-predicted cosmic whisper breaks through 72 upvotes, 34 comments
  17. Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet 29 upvotes, 11 comments
  18. Is my blue your blue? (2024) 661 upvotes, 442 comments
  19. PyWry: Cross-Platform Rendering Engine in Python 15 upvotes, 4 comments
  20. Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI 215 upvotes, 136 comments
  21. Period tracking app has been selling data to Meta 244 upvotes, 160 comments
  22. Can You Find the Comet? 112 upvotes, 73 comments
  23. Greece to ban anonymity on social media 63 upvotes, 38 comments
  24. GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes 145 upvotes, 111 comments
  25. Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron 154 upvotes, 121 comments
  26. AI uncovers 38 vulnerabilities in largest open source medical record software 78 upvotes, 56 comments
  27. Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI 134 upvotes, 108 comments
  28. I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers 59 upvotes, 45 comments
  29. Who owns the code Claude Code wrote? 72 upvotes, 99 comments
  30. Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Full Stack Software Engineers (Remote) 0 upvotes, 0 comments