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. Cosmology with Geometry Nodes 85 upvotes, 1 comments
  2. The mail sent to a video game publisher 77 upvotes, 1 comments
  3. 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" 93 upvotes, 10 comments
  4. Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom 216 upvotes, 32 comments
  5. Paraloid B-72 231 upvotes, 41 comments
  6. PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology 59 upvotes, 7 comments
  7. A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU 101 upvotes, 17 comments
  8. Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing 469 upvotes, 114 comments
  9. How to Implement an FPS Counter 72 upvotes, 13 comments
  10. Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port 166 upvotes, 42 comments
  11. Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games 34 upvotes, 5 comments
  12. My audio interface has SSH enabled by default 275 upvotes, 83 comments
  13. Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy 207 upvotes, 66 comments
  14. A Man Who Invented the Future 33 upvotes, 8 comments
  15. There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning 285 upvotes, 121 comments
  16. Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay 162 upvotes, 66 comments
  17. Education must go beyond the mere production of words 91 upvotes, 38 comments
  18. New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper 323 upvotes, 165 comments
  19. Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git) 127 upvotes, 61 comments
  20. A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp 26 upvotes, 8 comments
  21. Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do 95 upvotes, 45 comments
  22. Humpback whales are forming super-groups 148 upvotes, 77 comments
  23. Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI 30 upvotes, 11 comments
  24. DeepSeek v4 1978 upvotes, 1511 comments
  25. Work with the garage door up (2024) 172 upvotes, 120 comments
  26. Email could have been X.400 times better 207 upvotes, 172 comments
  27. Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x 14 upvotes, 6 comments
  28. Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic 659 upvotes, 662 comments
  29. Panipat: The Rise of the Mughals 14 upvotes, 7 comments
  30. Commenting and Approving Pull Requests 3 upvotes, 0 comments