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. Chernobyl wildlife forty years on 67 upvotes, 6 comments
  2. Self-updating screenshots 180 upvotes, 25 comments
  3. Three constraints before I build anything 127 upvotes, 17 comments
  4. MoQ Boy 50 upvotes, 5 comments
  5. TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough 63 upvotes, 9 comments
  6. The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 120 upvotes, 22 comments
  7. FreeBSD Device Drivers Book 52 upvotes, 7 comments
  8. Box to save memory in Rust 97 upvotes, 19 comments
  9. Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet 197 upvotes, 47 comments
  10. Flipdiscs 31 upvotes, 4 comments
  11. Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics 122 upvotes, 30 comments
  12. Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core 52 upvotes, 10 comments
  13. Revocation of X.509 Certificates 15 upvotes, 1 comments
  14. Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch 175 upvotes, 53 comments
  15. Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency 112 upvotes, 39 comments
  16. When Your Digital Life Vanishes 36 upvotes, 9 comments
  17. When the cheap one is the cool one 70 upvotes, 23 comments
  18. EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code 42 upvotes, 12 comments
  19. I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it 583 upvotes, 333 comments
  20. Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall) 79 upvotes, 37 comments
  21. SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities 273 upvotes, 155 comments
  22. Clay PCB Tutorial 211 upvotes, 126 comments
  23. Quirks of Human Anatomy 108 upvotes, 64 comments
  24. Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race 319 upvotes, 218 comments
  25. AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it 366 upvotes, 278 comments
  26. Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft 88 upvotes, 60 comments
  27. Lessons from building multiplayer browsers 21 upvotes, 10 comments
  28. The Prompt API 48 upvotes, 31 comments
  29. Low-Dose Aspirin Usage for Primary Prevention Has Fallen by >50% Since 2018 5 upvotes, 1 comments
  30. An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below 575 upvotes, 719 comments