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 22 upvotes, 0 comments
  2. Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0 145 upvotes, 23 comments
  3. XOXO Festival Archive 34 upvotes, 3 comments
  4. The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 90 upvotes, 14 comments
  5. Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame 201 upvotes, 47 comments
  6. MoQ Boy 28 upvotes, 3 comments
  7. Orinoco: Young Generation Garbage Collection 32 upvotes, 4 comments
  8. Statecharts: hierarchical state machines 270 upvotes, 77 comments
  9. Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch 86 upvotes, 24 comments
  10. Box to Save Memory in Rust 25 upvotes, 4 comments
  11. Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet 112 upvotes, 34 comments
  12. Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core 17 upvotes, 2 comments
  13. Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics 93 upvotes, 28 comments
  14. GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation 511 upvotes, 202 comments
  15. Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency 70 upvotes, 21 comments
  16. Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 586 upvotes, 274 comments
  17. The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color 107 upvotes, 43 comments
  18. I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it 247 upvotes, 124 comments
  19. Show HN: Tiao, A two-player turn-based board game 15 upvotes, 3 comments
  20. SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities 229 upvotes, 135 comments
  21. Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall) 45 upvotes, 20 comments
  22. Clay PCB Tutorial 185 upvotes, 118 comments
  23. Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? 405 upvotes, 280 comments
  24. Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race 192 upvotes, 129 comments
  25. AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it 226 upvotes, 184 comments
  26. Two Athletes Break Sub-2-HR Marathon in Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 42 upvotes, 30 comments
  27. The Last of the Lost Generation 5 upvotes, 1 comments
  28. Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game 8 upvotes, 4 comments
  29. An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below 391 upvotes, 543 comments
  30. Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024) 65 upvotes, 104 comments