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. TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale 78 upvotes, 3 comments
  2. WireGuard for Windows Reaches v1.0 123 upvotes, 7 comments
  3. A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory 102 upvotes, 15 comments
  4. Astronomers find the edge of the Milky Way 92 upvotes, 14 comments
  5. My phone replaced a brass plug 92 upvotes, 16 comments
  6. Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite 239 upvotes, 58 comments
  7. Your hex editor should color-code bytes 519 upvotes, 144 comments
  8. Why I Write (1946) 45 upvotes, 7 comments
  9. Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price 2158 upvotes, 738 comments
  10. Advanced Packaging Limits Come into Focus 31 upvotes, 5 comments
  11. UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub 86 upvotes, 22 comments
  12. Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025) 141 upvotes, 41 comments
  13. French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data 364 upvotes, 122 comments
  14. Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image 317 upvotes, 106 comments
  15. Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases 121 upvotes, 39 comments
  16. Isopods of the world 156 upvotes, 59 comments
  17. I am building a cloud 1023 upvotes, 501 comments
  18. Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign 671 upvotes, 334 comments
  19. Show HN: Agent Vault – Open-source credential proxy and vault for agents 80 upvotes, 30 comments
  20. I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable 53 upvotes, 18 comments
  21. Incident with multple GitHub services 220 upvotes, 109 comments
  22. A programmable watch you can actually wear 150 upvotes, 76 comments
  23. MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code 168 upvotes, 98 comments
  24. GPT-5.5 1157 upvotes, 795 comments
  25. Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys 787 upvotes, 538 comments
  26. Using the internet like it's 1999 109 upvotes, 68 comments
  27. An update on recent Claude Code quality reports 593 upvotes, 467 comments
  28. Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge 189 upvotes, 154 comments
  29. Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs 436 upvotes, 415 comments
  30. Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors 44 upvotes, 83 comments