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. My practitioner view of program analysis 18 upvotes, 0 comments
  2. Theseus, a Static Windows Emulator 56 upvotes, 6 comments
  3. Running a Minecraft Server and More on a 1960s Univac Computer 171 upvotes, 28 comments
  4. Kasane: New drop-in Kakoune front end with GPU rendering and WASM Plugins 37 upvotes, 5 comments
  5. Colorado River disappeared record for 5M years: now we know where it was 39 upvotes, 7 comments
  6. A type-safe, realtime collaborative Graph Database in a CRDT 137 upvotes, 40 comments
  7. Ibuilt a tiny Unix‑like 'OS' with shell and filesystem for Arduino UNO (2KB RAM) 52 upvotes, 12 comments
  8. Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com 108 upvotes, 33 comments
  9. Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files 222 upvotes, 78 comments
  10. MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany 256 upvotes, 95 comments
  11. The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables 210 upvotes, 84 comments
  12. Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go 147 upvotes, 56 comments
  13. Laws of Software Engineering 756 upvotes, 381 comments
  14. A Periodic Map of Cheese 139 upvotes, 61 comments
  15. 10 years: Stephen's Sausage Roll still one of the most influential puzzle games 64 upvotes, 25 comments
  16. Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 165 upvotes, 79 comments
  17. Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan 133 upvotes, 62 comments
  18. Framework Laptop 13 Pro 672 upvotes, 379 comments
  19. California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget 47 upvotes, 18 comments
  20. Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness 141 upvotes, 72 comments
  21. Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex 47 upvotes, 19 comments
  22. Fusion Power Plant Simulator 129 upvotes, 68 comments
  23. In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition 50 upvotes, 25 comments
  24. Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data 162 upvotes, 105 comments
  25. Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents 9 upvotes, 2 comments
  26. I don't want your PRs anymore 93 upvotes, 67 comments
  27. Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental? 52 upvotes, 38 comments
  28. Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero 239 upvotes, 243 comments
  29. Show HN: Backlit Keyboard API for Python 4 upvotes, 1 comments
  30. Trellis AI (YC W24) Is hiring engineers to build self-improving agents 0 upvotes, 0 comments