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. WireGuard for Windows Reaches v1.0 85 upvotes, 4 comments
  2. A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory 96 upvotes, 15 comments
  3. My phone replaced a brass plug 64 upvotes, 9 comments
  4. Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite 222 upvotes, 51 comments
  5. Astronomers find the edge of the Milky Way 70 upvotes, 13 comments
  6. Your hex editor should color-code bytes 484 upvotes, 140 comments
  7. TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale 21 upvotes, 2 comments
  8. Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price 2135 upvotes, 730 comments
  9. Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025) 131 upvotes, 36 comments
  10. Show HN: Agent Vault – Open-source credential proxy and vault for agents 53 upvotes, 12 comments
  11. French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data 343 upvotes, 121 comments
  12. Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image 294 upvotes, 102 comments
  13. I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable 40 upvotes, 9 comments
  14. Advanced Packaging Limits Come into Focus 27 upvotes, 5 comments
  15. UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub 53 upvotes, 14 comments
  16. U.S. Soldier Charged with Using Classified Info to Profit from Prediction Market 76 upvotes, 25 comments
  17. Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign 609 upvotes, 285 comments
  18. I am building a cloud 963 upvotes, 481 comments
  19. Incident with multple GitHub services 194 upvotes, 97 comments
  20. Show HN: Tolaria – open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases 51 upvotes, 20 comments
  21. A programmable watch you can actually wear 121 upvotes, 63 comments
  22. GPT-5.5 995 upvotes, 644 comments
  23. MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code 139 upvotes, 82 comments
  24. Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys 645 upvotes, 458 comments
  25. An update on recent Claude Code quality reports 524 upvotes, 395 comments
  26. Using the internet like it's 1999 92 upvotes, 60 comments
  27. Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge 160 upvotes, 122 comments
  28. How tolls saved Britain from pothole hell in the Industrial Revolution 3 upvotes, 0 comments
  29. If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad? 406 upvotes, 730 comments
  30. Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring 0 upvotes, 0 comments