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 94 upvotes, 2 comments
  2. Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom 261 upvotes, 40 comments
  3. Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games 94 upvotes, 13 comments
  4. Paraloid B-72 251 upvotes, 46 comments
  5. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023) 276 upvotes, 54 comments
  6. A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU 119 upvotes, 21 comments
  7. How to Implement an FPS Counter 101 upvotes, 18 comments
  8. Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing 488 upvotes, 120 comments
  9. Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes 25 upvotes, 2 comments
  10. Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s 42 upvotes, 6 comments
  11. Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021) 11 upvotes, 0 comments
  12. My audio interface has SSH enabled by default 287 upvotes, 86 comments
  13. What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story 27 upvotes, 4 comments
  14. Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy 225 upvotes, 75 comments
  15. HEALPix 20 upvotes, 3 comments
  16. Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins 16 upvotes, 2 comments
  17. Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI 78 upvotes, 26 comments
  18. A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] 17 upvotes, 3 comments
  19. Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do 133 upvotes, 56 comments
  20. Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay 205 upvotes, 94 comments
  21. Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) 168 upvotes, 85 comments
  22. Humpback whales are forming super-groups 172 upvotes, 89 comments
  23. New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper 412 upvotes, 242 comments
  24. A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp 62 upvotes, 28 comments
  25. Education must go beyond the mere production of words 115 upvotes, 64 comments
  26. Commenting and Approving Pull Requests 50 upvotes, 32 comments
  27. Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic 724 upvotes, 708 comments
  28. Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x 36 upvotes, 27 comments
  29. GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty 47 upvotes, 38 comments
  30. Niri 26.04 was just released (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor) 3 upvotes, 0 comments