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 mail sent to a video game publisher 121 upvotes, 4 comments
  2. Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom 296 upvotes, 42 comments
  3. Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games 130 upvotes, 16 comments
  4. Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021) 27 upvotes, 1 comments
  5. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) 423 upvotes, 74 comments
  6. Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s 102 upvotes, 14 comments
  7. A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU 123 upvotes, 24 comments
  8. Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing 498 upvotes, 125 comments
  9. Paraloid B-72 255 upvotes, 59 comments
  10. The Free Universal Construction Kit 109 upvotes, 22 comments
  11. Desmond Morris has died 46 upvotes, 7 comments
  12. HEALPix 34 upvotes, 5 comments
  13. Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor 167 upvotes, 44 comments
  14. My audio interface has SSH enabled by default 300 upvotes, 89 comments
  15. Hokusai and Tesselations 48 upvotes, 10 comments
  16. It's OK to Use Agentic to Revive the Projects You Never Were Going to Finish 18 upvotes, 2 comments
  17. Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy 237 upvotes, 83 comments
  18. Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI 104 upvotes, 32 comments
  19. Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins 34 upvotes, 9 comments
  20. Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do 155 upvotes, 65 comments
  21. Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) 213 upvotes, 97 comments
  22. A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp 90 upvotes, 37 comments
  23. Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay 230 upvotes, 118 comments
  24. Humpback whales are forming super-groups 190 upvotes, 100 comments
  25. New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper 472 upvotes, 277 comments
  26. Education must go beyond the mere production of words 129 upvotes, 77 comments
  27. Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center 115 upvotes, 90 comments
  28. Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x 56 upvotes, 39 comments
  29. Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic 777 upvotes, 763 comments
  30. GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty 88 upvotes, 76 comments