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. Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care? 52 upvotes, 5 comments
  2. Reverse Engineering SimTower 206 upvotes, 44 comments
  3. I built a Game Boy emulator in F# 282 upvotes, 66 comments
  4. Full-Text Search with DuckDB 142 upvotes, 31 comments
  5. The Rotary Un-Smartphone 16 upvotes, 1 comments
  6. Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables 87 upvotes, 20 comments
  7. How an oil refinery works 428 upvotes, 135 comments
  8. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] 608 upvotes, 203 comments
  9. Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows 23 upvotes, 3 comments
  10. The Hearts of the Super Nintendo (2024) 30 upvotes, 5 comments
  11. Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library 398 upvotes, 142 comments
  12. Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? 635 upvotes, 263 comments
  13. Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h 57 upvotes, 16 comments
  14. Auto Polo 61 upvotes, 18 comments
  15. After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber 22 upvotes, 4 comments
  16. Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac 32 upvotes, 8 comments
  17. You can beat the binary search 323 upvotes, 143 comments
  18. CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940 109 upvotes, 46 comments
  19. New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges 150 upvotes, 68 comments
  20. Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" 1175 upvotes, 644 comments
  21. Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey 359 upvotes, 188 comments
  22. Your Biggest Vulnerability is your Shitty Compensation 33 upvotes, 14 comments
  23. New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome 71 upvotes, 38 comments
  24. For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions 510 upvotes, 399 comments
  25. If I could make my own GitHub 64 upvotes, 44 comments
  26. How we run iSCSI over the internet 16 upvotes, 7 comments
  27. Maladaptive Frugality 109 upvotes, 86 comments
  28. OpenWarp 101 upvotes, 80 comments
  29. Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants 828 upvotes, 844 comments
  30. Grok 4.3 93 upvotes, 101 comments